Blog #9

Opposing Viewpoints Workshop

Fraga, Juli. "During pregnancy, anxiety can spike. Music therapy may help." Washingtonpost.com, 21 Dec. 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A566786508/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=617d7d16. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Music therapy has been used to lessen symptoms of prenatal and postpartum anxiety in many women. The results have been amazing, music and other expressive arts therapies help people dealing with mental health issues, including depression, eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A study focused on mental health concerns followed 409 pregnant women. Half of them received music therapy, which was listening to relaxing, instrumental or melodic music, the other half did not. The study proves that after completing therapy, the women who participated in the study and listened to music were less anxious than the ones who did not participate.

Ostrowski, Kathy. "Kansas University professor leading music therapy for premature infants." National Right to Life News, Oct. 2014, p. 22. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A391595753/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=67c76a5e. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
After lots of research, a Kansas University professor concluded that live music, played or sung to infants helps to slow their heartbeats, calms their breathing, improves sucking behaviors necessary for feeding, aid sleep and promotes alertness during quiet times.
Premature babies are under a lot of stress during their first hours of life. They are in rooms full of light, sounds, alarms and people. Their brains are not develop enough to handle it all. This stress takes away energy that their bodies need to focus their brains and nervous system into growing and developing. It’s very interesting to learn how these babies brains respond to music used as therapy during those early hours of life.

Downs, Rebecca. "5 amazing things preborn children can do inside the womb." National Right to Life News, Mar. 2019, p. 13. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A583250704/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=766a9f51. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Rebecca Downs describes how babies began to absorb language during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy. Music played to a baby in the womb helps develops its brain to learn and starts the process of identifying different sounds and recognizing voices.
The womb is a sensory playground for the baby. It’s there were we see the first reactions to the world around them. They react in the womb to music by blinking or moving to the beat.







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