How would you like to be able to choose the music that accompanied you during childbirth? I think it's a great idea, and now In the Infanta Sofía hospital in Madrid you can choose music for the delivery room.
The hospital has installed music equipment in the delivery rooms to relax at birth. Thus, the mother can choose the first song her son hears at birth, although surely music has already arrived from his mother's womb and during contractions.
The melodies reduce the level of anxiety of the mother and the stress of the newborn, favoring the increase in the heart rate of the fetus. For the mother there are also advantages because it helps control the pain of contractions.
I would have liked to choose the classical music that we played to my baby during pregnancy, which I surely recognized. Although surely there are daddies who prefer rap, heavy or any rhythm they like.
The benefits of music therapy are proven in different fields. We have already seen its effectiveness in pregnant women, in premature babies and in the treatment of children with disorders such as hyperactivity.
It is also effective for the recovery of babies hospitalized in intensive care, so surely in the cases of births they are no less relaxing.
Of course, next to this relaxing music at the time of delivery to the hospital, we hope that births are more respected and exempt from unnecessary protocols in which most times mothers and babies are immersed in these crucial moments and that can counteract the benefits of music.
