{"id":76,"date":"2009-05-21T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/?p=76"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:39:21","slug":"music-and-medicine-music-therapy-for-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/video\/interviews\/music-and-medicine-music-therapy-for-infants\/76\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Therapy for Infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-76-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/27-music-therapy.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/27-music-therapy.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/27-music-therapy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dr. Joanne Loewy<\/strong>: The fetus hears the mother\u2019s heartbeat 26 million times before the baby is born. So with this Gato box we could actually recreate the heart sounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Gato box is actually a drum, but we use it without the mallet as a box. And we try to entrain to the baby\u2019s heart rate so we could create a rhythm for the suck, much like if you went to the gym and you went on the treadmill and you play music, you would entrain to that beat. It would help you work out, the rhythm would support your movement.<\/p>\n<p>We use it without a mallet because it would be too jarring. You\u2019ll notice it\u2019s a kind of quiet sound and it\u2019s enclosed, much like the baby would experience in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>We expect the heart rate to go up a little bit in the transition, so we saw that at the beginning. It was high 189, 190. But then very soon the baby was stable transitioning from quiet alert to almost a sleep state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/27-music-therapy.mp4 Dr. Joanne Loewy: The fetus hears the mother\u2019s heartbeat 26 million times before the baby is born. So with this Gato box we could actually recreate the heart sounds. The Gato box is actually a drum, but we use it without the mallet as a box. 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