Hello Class,
My Virtual poster informs you that the stress/anxiety of pregnant women can lead to adverse outcomes for the mother, infant, and/or the attachment of the two. A pregnant woman’s psychological needs often are deemed not as important as her physical needs. Because of the adverse outcomes stress can cause, looking into research using Music Therapy as a viable option to reduce stress and strengthen the mother/infant attachment is worth studying.
Good luck to all as we progress along and with your nurisng careers.
Gayle
I totally agree with you about pregnant women psychological and physical needs. Stress and anxiety are major problems for pregnant mothers throughout the world face. However, many pregnant mothers are using music as a tool to eliminate stress. Many women are also using music therapy to aide them through childbirth. I love the sound of music, but as a nurse and a mother I would advise pregnant mothers who use music as a therapy to be careful of the type of music, they use to eliminate stress. Research has proven that during the third trimester an unborn child can recognize their mother’s voice and native language. Research also shows that music may have a positive or negative impact on the unborn child.
Interesting kapryce, I did not see any studies with harmful affects of the fetus but I was just looking for maternal stress and not concentrating on the infant itself. Some studies suggested in their conclusions that the effects on the fetus was unknown.
I love this! Music therapy can be used in many setting within the hospital. High anxiety and high stress areas especially mother baby would be a perfect place to utilize this form of distraction theory. We use music in the perioperative setting as well. It helps patients to relax as much a possible and helps with the avoidance of pharmacological means to reduce patient anxiety.
Nice topic, Igbergman. I absolutely agree that music is powerful and therapeutic. What I cannot understand, however, is how music will affect a fetus negatively as suggested by studies referenced by Kapryce. Good thing, research is ongoing and this has presented an area for further exploration. Funny though, I wonder if music would have made a difference when my labor was induced. The pain was excruciating!…nothing mattered at the time. Thanks for sharing.
No research data here from me but have you seen the videos of laboring women dancing in labor with music? For me as a nurse who has seen many women in labor those videos don’t really tell you what stage of labor. Women’s pain response is so varied and who knows what stage of labor they are in in the videos.
Also as a nurse I’ve seen laboring moms who have soft music playing, lights dim, TV off. And I as the nurse found that atmosphere really calming.
There is research on music in labor but I did not look into it as I was looking at Antepartum stress.
Thanks for commenting,
Gayle
I really like the topic you chose. Your poster was well-written, organized, and pleasant to look at.
I found this quote from your poster interesting:”Pregnant women’s psychological needs are often not taken as seriously as their physical needs despite evidence showing adverse outcomes for the mother and child”. There would be such benefits to patients if U.S. healthcare took a greater holistic approach to patient care. It is surprising that more emphasis isn’t put on the psychological needs of pregnant people and new mothers considering the well-documented cases of postpartum depression and the well-known fact that pregnancy, birth, and realities of having a newborn all can be highly stressful events for women for numerous reasons. I wonder how often music therapy is used in hospitals. It seems like it could have great therapeutic use in all units of the hospital.