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When pregnant women of the village of Vilamarxant, Spain, began singing for two hours a week, they discovered a cascade of psychological benefits including emotional expression, tension relief, and a powerful group solidarity. As they clapped and tapped musical rhythms with their hands and feet, learning folk songs and lullabies, their babies seemed to be joining in their fun. Two older mothers who were scheduled for Caesareans gave birth spontaneously and confidently.
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From the observation of the bonding behavior that the newborn shows even during the first hours of life, the high degree synchronization and transaction that he shows during interaction with his mother, and the capability that many mothers have of immediately establishing a relationship with him, we can arrive at the conclusion that bonding after birth, described by many authors as a separate entry, is really the continuation of the intrauterine contact that began long before.
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A physician with a history of four previous spontaneous abortions stopped the progression of preterm labor and gave birth to a healthy baby at term. Repeated troubled dreams are the cause of painful Braxton Hicks contractions. These are innocuous until an alarmed mother breaks off telepathic communications to her fetus. This starts a sequence of events beginning with expulsive labor, rupture of membranes and birth of a compromised baby. Preterm birth is preventable. The process can be reversed.
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