Music can help premature babies feed

An amazing study done by Loewy J et al. [1] in 2013 showed that soothing music may encourage premature babies to feed better, as well as improve their vital signs (like their O2 saturation levels as well as heart rate). It is speculated that this is one of the reasons why singing lullabies to babies comes so naturally to parents and carers.

Listen to Soothing Sound and Song, a Majors for Minors album that adds soothing voices with celtic influences as well as tibetan bowls, pink noise, below average heartbeat tempos and sound frequencies, all designed to calm

[1] Loewy J et al. The effects of music therapy on vital signs, feeding, and sleep in premature infants. Pediatrics 2013;131(5):902-18

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Safe sleeping practices for babies.

According to the CDC [1], every year about 3,500 babies die from sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs). While we still don't know that much about it, it has been shows that practicing safe sleeping habits can reduce the risk greatly. Findings published by the journal Pediatrics [2], shows that many parents do not follow any of the safe sleeping practices that are well-known to reduce the risk of SUIDs and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The number one rule being to put your baby to sleep on her back . Here are the a few main safe sleeping practices: 1. Put your baby to sleep on her back, at the very least until their 1st birthday. This counts for both night time sleeping, as well as naps. It has been shown over and over that babies that sleep on their backs are much less likely to die from SIDS than babies that sleep on their stomach. Even if your baby suffers from gastroesophageal reflex, it is still better to have her sleep on her back. 2. A firm sleepin

Your baby's sleep is important, but probably not in the way you are thinking.

In her book "How Babies & Toddlers Really Sleep" [1], Erica Neser [2] talks about how sleep has a specific kind of impact on how a baby's brain develops. In just one cycle of roughly one hour, your baby will store memories, lay down paths between brain cells, and then finally secrete growth hormones. It is important that your baby goes through these cycles during sleep, and according to Dr Nils Bergman [3], babies that sleep on their mother's chest experience all the correct sleep cycles and phases. However, babies that are left to sleep alone might not experience these cycles at all. According to Dr Nils, while babies that sleep alone might look like they are sleeping, their brainwaves are scrambled. One of the many fears of parents is that their babies' brain will not develop properly if they do not get enough sleep. Erica believes that this is one of the major factors to why parents try to "teach" their babies to sleep through the night

Music Contributes to Children's Language Development

“Perhaps the most important problem in neuroscience is understanding what it means to be human, and music is an essential part of this.” These are the opening words of cognitive neuroscientist Robert Zattore's presentation during a workshop on Music and the Brain. For the workshop, the National Institutes of Health and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts convened a panel of experts to discuss the current state of research on music and the brain. The workshop was organized around the three life stages — childhood, adulthood, and aging. Over the course of a day and a half, the group noted that in addition to promoting language development, music has a positive effect on the development of other cognitive functions including attention, visual-spatial perception, and executive function. Boost your child's language development with music from Majors for Minors. The first session of the workshop was titled "Building: Music and the Child’s Bra

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