Maternal singing calms preemies and their mothers: study

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Maternal singing calms preemies and their mothers: study

When mothers in a neonatal intensive care unit sang while holding their preterm infants in a skin-to-skin “kangaroo care” position, the babies’ heart rate improved compared to when they were held without singing. “We noticed that many mothers want to speak or sing during kangaroo care as a natural feeling of love and care for their child,” said lead author Shmuel Arnon, a physician at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, Israel. The baby has tubes and lines that a mother might worry about messing up, and the baby is fragile, sometimes weighing less than a pound,” said Larry Gray, a pediatrician at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the new study. Past research has found that preemies’ breathing, heart function and feeding all improve when they hear mother’s voice, which is familiar from their time in the womb, Arnon and his coauthors write in Acta Paediatrica.

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