Live music good vibrations gives premature babies boost

Music’s power to affect our emotion from a relaxing piano sonata to the energetic rhythms of dance beat. New recent studies and reports suggest these good vibrations of live music with its soothing rhythms also help tiny premature babies. Live music played to preemies seems to promote growth; slow the infants’ heartbeats, calm their breathing, and improve sucking and sleeping.

Many hospitals in the U.S already offer a form live music therapy in their newborn intensive care units and its popularity is growing. Therapists say live performances are better than recorded music because preemies can feel the music vibrations.