Music can be medicine for preterm babies

>>> NEW RESEARCH OUT OF DUKE

UNIVERSITY.

A STUDY RELEASED JUST ABOUT 90

MINUTES A GO.

IT SHOWS A CONNECTION BETWEEN

THE MOTHER LABOR AND THE CHILDS

WITH AUTISM.

WITH A WOMAN LABOR WAS INDUCED

OR AUGMENTED IT CREATED AUTISM.

>>> THE RIGHT SONG CAN LIFT

YOUR SPIR RENTS OR MAKE A LONG

COMMUTE SHORTER.

MANY HOSPITAL USE MUSIC AS

MEDICINE.

NOW THEY HAVE RESEARCH TO

SUPPORT IT.

>>Reporter: YOU DON'T USUALLY

SEE MUSIC THERAPIST.

>> THEY HAVE BEEN USING THIS

FOR 30 YEARS.

>>Reporter: RECENTLY THEY USE

THIS IN THE PRENATAL CARE UNIT.

THE MUSIC SEEMS TO TRANCE FORM

THIS ROOM FULL OF LOUD

EQUIPMENT AND SCREAMING BABIES.

>> ALL OF THESE BABIES ARE

QUITE WHEN THEY HEAR HER PLAY.

>>Reporter: THE MUSIC HAS A

SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON PRETERM

BABIES.

A RECENT STUDY PUBLIC IN THE

JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS IT SLOWS

THE INFANTS HEARTBEAT, IMPROVE

FEEDING AND SLEEPING.

>> WHEN SHE COMES IN HE WILL GO

TO SLEEP.

>>Reporter: THAT ALLOWS BABIES

LIKE JACE TO GAIN TEN POUNDS

AND HE MAY GO HOME TOO.

>>> DOCTOR ALAN MASS.

>> MY MOTHER USE TO SING TO US

AS BABIES AND IT ALWAYS SEEMED