Gifts can be shared from your
community to you and your baby –
with the help of a music therapist if
you need it
To celebrate the life of the new baby that is part of your world, we would like to invite you to share a sound or song with them. Your unit’s music therapist can help you create it. You could share:
A family song that celebrates your culture or childhood
A lullaby or songs
Recitations that provide strength and reassurance
Supportive chants
Poems or reading a book
Your gifts could include words that share your hopes and dreams for baby or could have sounds without words, like instruments, nature or humming.
A music therapist who specialises in supporting parents and babies on the neonatal unit will support you to create this in a way that is helpful for baby on the unit. You can then send this recording as a special way to connect baby to their family and wider world.
Try to create and share your gift in your baby’s first ten days on the unit if you can. We hope you find your time with the music therapist helpful to make this possible.