Music played to premature babies may lessen pain and improve feeding habits

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 18:42 in Health & Medicine

Music played to premature babies may help to reduce their pain and encourage better oral feeding, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Increasing numbers of neonatal units are using music as a method to help improve behavioural and physiological outcomes or to manage pain during common procedures such as circumcision.

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