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It's your birth.  Be creative.TM 


7 Foundational Processes of MTACB

Music Therapy Assisted Childbirth is designed to impact your birth in these key areas of health and wellbeing:  

Biological lowers blood pressure, lessens your brain’s perception of pain, decreases cortisol stress levels.  increases pleasure and love hormones which are essential during labor.  

Psychological  balance your well-being before birth, lower anxiety about labor, develop your instinct to birth, increase your confidence and be empowered to make informed decisions during childbirth.  

Environmental shape the mood of the environmental, impact the way others interact in your birthing environment, create a gentle space to welcome baby and create a lasting bond.  

Sociological  Enhance relationships and bonding in perinatal periods, explore your cultural knowledge of birth, bring cohesiveness to your support community.

Emotional

Evoke a mood or memory response, match your state of feelings, shape the emotional tone of your birth, increasing bonding with baby and birthing partner,  

Developmental

Prepare for life transition to parenthood, guide imagery to help you discover your internal resources for growth and change.  

Spiritual

birth often evokes transpersonal experiences and music is used to support these life changing events.

DiCamillo, M. (1999). A bio-psycho-social model of music therapy assisted childbirth: an integrative approach to working with families. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, CA.





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