Babies and Parents

Premature babies are fragile and defenseless creatures who have left a welcoming and relaxed to face the outside world too quickly. They need our help to succeed, especially the presence of the mother, something that hardly can be replaced by a web camera.

The closer you sit the baby of maternal warmth, his breath, heartbeat, that is what has been deprived by his premature birth, the better.

The Neonatal Unit of Hospital Universitario de Canarias (Tenerife) has been using for 7 months based therapy nannies whose background the sound of the heartbeat and that seems to help reduce stress for preterm infants . So the music that brings benefits demonstrated in premature infants, joins the rhythmic beating contributing to its improvement.

This therapy has been applied in 70 premature infants, in which there has been an improvement in his condition, stabilizing their breathing and heart rates, oxygen saturations increasing and decreasing the heart rate in the cases of infants with tachycardia. Besides the nannies beats bottom promote sleep and make babies cry less and less irritable.

All these improvements seem based on the fact that the sound of the heartbeat produces a positive stimulus in the infant, as is the one who hears inside his mother. The music listening 2 times a day and usually lasts between 15 and 20 minutes, depending on the reaction of the premature infant.

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