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  • Mozart to a baby's ears helps ease birth trauma

    09/11/2005 4:53:41 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 65 replies · 979+ views
    AFP) ^ | Thu Sep 8, 1:16 PM ET
    KOSICE, Slovakia (AFP) - On their little heads, the newborns in the maternity ward are wearing stereo headphones and their tiny hands seem to move to the rhythm of the music. From the first hours of their lives, the babies are tuned into Mozart at the Kosica-Saca hospital in eastern Slovakia. This is no experiment in producing a generation of musical geniuses. The infants are listening to the classical composer to stimulate their mental and physical functions thanks to the benefits of music therapy. The birth trauma is "enormously stressful for the baby," said Slavka Viragova, the doctor in charge...