Healthy preterm infant responses to taped maternal voice.

摘要: This study was a repeated measures design, examining behavioral and physiologic responses of premature infants to taped maternal voice. Fourteen stable, infants, 31 34 weeks' gestation serving as their own controls, were monitored videotaped 4 times each day for 3 consecutive days during the first week life. There no significant differences found in heart rate or oxygen saturation between conditions. Behavioral data revealed less motor activity more wakefulness, while hearing tape, suggesting some influence on infant state regulation. Attending behaviors significantly greater, with eye brightening facial tone. Minimal distress seen throughout study, indicated by stable absence such jitteriness, loss tone, color. The results this preliminary suggest that are capable attending tape recordings mother's