What are ways that we can use music to help mothers during pregnancy? What are some ways that music can be used to help mother bond with baby in utero? How can music help the father to be involved?
What are ways that we can use music to help mothers during pregnancy? We can help pregnancy mother in four spheres: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. We can help mother relax through movement which consists of training to consciously listen to a piece of music while creating movements with our arms, as if reflecting the melody in the air. This technique is aims to achieve a musical meditation oriented towards the multiple sensations caused by the baby inside the worm or the mother herself. String musical instruments are a very useful tool. This relaxation technique contributes to a reduced level of stress during labor,because mother achieved precisely through movement. Creative visualizations with music:music is a great evoker of images, so these are brought to mind with more intensity. And then ends the exercise towards a positive conclusion. Generally these exercises evoke very strong unconscious images, as they lead us to face the fantasies and fears inside of us, in either a positive or a negative way. When one has the chance of putting these on the outside it is possible to see more clearly what was inside. Therefore, one gains a deeper understanding of oneself, and can look at these images in a retrospective way, which is much more effective. The creative visualization during pregnancy offers us two possibilities: to connect us with the “here and now” of our mood; to project ourselves towards the future, connecting with what is about to come. Focal Music Therapy in Obstetrics (FMTO) works in the wellbeing of the mother-to-be, in which we consider her sensations, emotions, fantasies and fears in order to help her go through this stage of life with less anxiety.
What are some ways that music can be used to help mother bond with baby in utero? The music was a bridge which allowed the mother to connect with her daughter long before her birth. The baby’s brain was stimulated by the melodies, while being emotionally nourished with that which her mother transmitted: incorporating love, security and confidence. The prenatal musical experience, coupled with her mother’s voice, serves as an external reference and calms the baby. FMTO works in the bonding with the unborn baby, for both mother and father. Help the mother to connect with the unborn baby long before her/his birth. The prenatal musical experience can serves as an external reference and calms the baby. Music can help to strength the infant-parent bond which is the fundamental to all future relationship success. The baby’s brain was stimulated by the melodies, while being emotionally nourished with that which her mother transmitted: incorporating love, security and confidence. The prenatal musical experience, coupled with her mother’s voice, serves as an external reference and calms the baby.
How can music help the father to be involved? Involving both parents will contribute to better family relationships. Partner (dad) can practice exercises with mother, as men are also greatly moved on an emotional level during pregnancy. And sharing these emotions with the partner strengths the foundation of the prenatal bond with the unborn baby. Fathers can participate in creating the welcome song for the unborn baby. Mother and father can create the lyrics together which gives the father a very important and special participation during the pregnancy, as the welcome song helps the newborn baby more quickly overcome the stress caused by the birth process. Parents can share their expectations about their baby, and communicate their love and feeling to each other. Them father can repeatedly hum or sing the song to the baby. Father can whistle the same tune or sing songs repeatedly to the unborn baby, which will served as a stimulation, too.
What are ways that we can use music to help mothers during pregnancy?
ReplyDeleteWe can help pregnancy mother in four spheres: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
We can help mother relax through movement which consists of training to consciously listen to a piece of music while creating movements with our arms, as if reflecting the melody in the air. This technique is aims to achieve a musical meditation oriented towards the multiple sensations caused by the baby inside the worm or the mother herself. String musical instruments are a very useful tool. This relaxation technique contributes to a reduced level of stress during labor,because mother achieved precisely through movement.
Creative visualizations with music:music is a great evoker of images, so these are brought to mind with more intensity. And then ends the exercise towards a positive conclusion. Generally these exercises evoke very strong unconscious images, as they lead us to face the fantasies and fears inside of us, in either a positive or a negative way. When one has the chance of putting these on the outside it is possible to see more clearly what was inside. Therefore, one gains a deeper understanding of oneself, and can look at these images in a retrospective way, which is much more effective.
The creative visualization during pregnancy offers us two possibilities: to connect us with the “here and now” of our mood; to project ourselves towards the future, connecting with what is about to come.
Focal Music Therapy in Obstetrics (FMTO) works in the wellbeing of the mother-to-be, in which we consider her sensations, emotions, fantasies and fears in order to help her go through this stage of life with less anxiety.
What are some ways that music can be used to help mother bond with baby in utero?
ReplyDeleteThe music was a bridge which allowed the mother to connect with her daughter long before her birth. The baby’s brain was stimulated by the melodies, while being emotionally nourished with that which her mother transmitted: incorporating love, security and confidence. The prenatal musical experience, coupled with her mother’s voice, serves as an external reference and calms the baby.
FMTO works in the bonding with the unborn baby, for both mother and father.
Help the mother to connect with the unborn baby long before her/his birth.
The prenatal musical experience can serves as an external reference and calms the baby.
Music can help to strength the infant-parent bond which is the fundamental to all future relationship success.
The baby’s brain was stimulated by the melodies, while being emotionally nourished with that which her mother transmitted: incorporating love, security and confidence. The prenatal musical experience, coupled with her mother’s voice, serves as an external reference and calms the baby.
How can music help the father to be involved?
ReplyDeleteInvolving both parents will contribute to better family relationships.
Partner (dad) can practice exercises with mother, as men are also greatly moved on an emotional level during pregnancy. And sharing these emotions with the partner strengths the foundation of the prenatal bond with the unborn baby.
Fathers can participate in creating the welcome song for the unborn baby. Mother and father can create the lyrics together which gives the father a very important and special participation during the pregnancy, as the welcome song helps the newborn baby more quickly overcome the stress caused by the birth process. Parents can share their expectations about their baby, and communicate their love and feeling to each other. Them father can repeatedly hum or sing the song to the baby.
Father can whistle the same tune or sing songs repeatedly to the unborn baby, which will served as a stimulation, too.