Music therapy and pregnancy

An essential concept: primal health

 

The primal health is a concept that came to light in 1986 in the hands of Dr. Michel Odent. He points out that our disease and our personality traits are formed largely during the primal period. This stage includes fetal life, birth and the first year after birth.

Despite the late appearance of the term, numerous researchers from Europe and the United States worked from the 50s to better understand the onset of human life and the important impact of this period in child and adult health.

"Today, we are reaching a new phase in the history of medical culture. The most authoritative medical journals increasingly include articles on the effects of prenatal and perinatal environment on health and adult disease. "(Michel Odent, The birth in the age of plastic)

These breakthroughs to put on the table the importance of stages that are usually neglected, especially from the emotional point of view. And therefore, it becomes an urgent need for therapeutic work that serve the integral human health arising during the primal period.

Baby Health

At present, most babies develop in something like this fetal environment: mother with stress as a backdrop for the modern pregnancy poses a constant obstacle course and possible complications (nuchal translucency, triple screening, diabetes gestational, etc.), with the fear of childbirth and, in many cases, with little communication between mother and baby.

The baby needs to feel wanted, accepted and loved. He needs his mother to keep in mind and communicate with him / her, you must share what is happening and to consider as a complete human being. This protects you from the harmful effects that cause stress and anxiety.

Health in pregnant women

Normally understand the human being in a fragmented, compartmentalized, as if on the one hand outside the body, on the other our emotions and our thoughts on the other. But each person is an indivisible whole, like a big puzzle in which the pieces have meaning only when they are united and are regarded as a single image.

From this point of view, which is also based on the primal health, we consider that a woman lives healthily pregnancy not only if there are no complications physiological but also whether their emotional and mental world are ordered and unlocked.

What does this mean? It is not necessary that our life is perfect, or that do not have problems, and we are in a state of calm and constant fullness. In life unforeseen things happen, we like some more than others, and we're adapting to these circumstances with the resources we have. It is healthy to know how I feel, identify what happens to me, being able to name and express it through channels that do not harm me or my environment.

Singing in pregnancy health for both

Song regulates the respiratory and cardiac system, helps relieve stress and provides a feeling of wellbeing. Since time immemorial have used songs that facilitate labor and melodies to lull, calm and play with the children before and after birth.

Singing in pregnancy has a dual benefit. For women it is a beautiful way with which to channel their emotions and interact with your child / a. Baby, ties him with his mother, connects you in a warm and conscious with their source of life and love.

In addition, delivery "express pain through song has a strong analgesic effect and promotes the dilation of the cervix. Baby calms and strengthens the bond with him / her "(Verena Schmid, The pain of childbirth). Berta Perez Gutierrez