Music to ease birth trauma
“‘The birth trauma is ‘enormously stressful for the baby,’ said Slavka Viragova, the doctor in charge of the hospital’s maternity unit, who launched the music project.

‘In the womb, the baby listens to the mother’s heart beat which represents a source of protection and good feelings. We have the baby listen to music so he can recall his mother during the period immediately after the birth when he is not with her,’ she said.

In a room where the walls and windows are covered with animals from fairytales, about a dozen infants in two rows of cribs are listening to music and sleeping peacefully.

Nearby in another room with incubators premature babies and those with health problems are also exposed to music, which has been shown to help them stabilize their breathing, Viragova said.

‘In general, music therapy helps a baby to gain weight, get rid of stress and handle pain better,’ she said.” (pictures via Yahoo! News)