The Importance of Music during Pregnancy

Beyond the use of music in the labor room, music therapy really comes in preparation for birth. It stimulates the auditory perception of the child, calm pain and stress in the mother, enables a unique and privileged communication between mother and child. At first, in the seventh week of pregnancy, the fetus can perceive the vibration sounds even before the formation of the auditory system, thanks to the bones of his skull mom's pelvis using resonator. Then, throughout pregnancy, high frequencies are filtered by the muscles and the liquid, and only the low frequencies are vibrating against the tactile corpuscles of the mouth and hands of the baby, as a string to which would boost slow and strong corrugations. Reinforced by the uterine body resonance, they caress her mouth. The emotion is so strong that his heart speeds up, it stretches, turns his head, thumb sucking or frolics.
In addition, the fetus responds not only to the stimuli that come from the outside, but also, hormonally, to the emotions of his mother.
So after the birth, the child is able to recognize a piece of music or a voice which will have been familiar during pregnancy. At his hearing, he calms or manifest an interest. Moreover, the very low frequency sounds to facilitate the child's sleep in the months following birth. The experiment was done in hospitals resulting in a good percentage of sleep toddler.
The benefit of the mother
Within the mother, the regular issuance of such sounds helps maintain a longer expiratory breath and easier than ordinary breathing, which develops respiratory capacity and oxygenation capitals at the time of delivery. Producing bass sounds can decrease the duration of the "work" of two to four hours: the uterus, better oxygenated, it disabled. The woman is relaxed, the opening of the cervix is accelerated. In addition, the expiration restrained at the time of expulsion allows better control of pain and can avoid the use of episiotomy.