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FSU’s medical music therapy for vulnerable babies to expand

Published: January 8, 2019 | 9:30 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, Health & Medicine

FSU alumna Ciele Gutierrez offers medical music therapy to a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit. "Sometimes when a mom is holding her baby and I’m providing music therapy she will say, 'Wow, I can feel her breathing slowing down and she's just kind of melting into me and becoming more relaxed.' So, the moms themselves are feeling their babies' physical change.” (Photo: Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare)

Critically ill babies fighting for their lives will now benefit from the services of Florida State University’s world-renowned Medical Music Therapy program even after they leave the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Expanded music therapy services start this month thanks to funding provided by an FSU Dance Marathon grant to FSU’s College of Medicine Neonatal […]

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