For preemies, the combination of hearing mother’s voice softly singing while being held against her skin can have a number of health benefits - and it helps mums too, a new study suggests.
When mothers in a neonatal intensive care unit sang while holding their pre-term infants in a skin-to-skin “kangaroo care” position, the babies’ heart rate improved compared to when they were held without singing. Mothers’ anxiety levels were found to have dropped as well.
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