‘The world is scarier for kids’: Anxiety on the rise among kids and teens, Houston therapist has advice for parents– You may have heard that playing Mozart while pregnant can help your baby develop in the womb. But music may actually play a bigger role in development after the baby is born – especially for premature births.
“Looking back at pictures my husband and I are in awe because his fingers used to barely cover our fingernails,” said Shayla Lewis, Hugh’s mother. “He’s had a lot of his major milestones here.” Premature babies are hypersensitive to sound, touch and movement, usually have difficulty breathing and maintaining steady vitals, and frequently have issues feeding. These music therapy techniques can help with all those issues so that babies have less pain with touch, gain more weight, and go home sooner.
Heartbeat rhythm matching decreases stress and helps stabilize vital signs during procedures, treatments and tests