The Big Story: January 14, 2019

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)
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.

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