ArticlePediatrics2019
Maternal Voice and Infant Sleep in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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- Eligible Infants Included in Neonatal Clinical Trials and Reasons for Noninclusion: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Race and Ethnicity of Infants Enrolled in Neonatal Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- Role of maternal sound stimulation in the NICU: improving outcomes for newborns and their families.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Practical Application of Polysomnography in Infants.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Synergy in Child Neurology: Science, Collaboration, and Leadership - The 2024 Hower Award Lecture.Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2025Article
- Listening to mom in the neonatal intensive care unit: a randomized trial of increased maternal speech exposure on white matter connectivity in infants born preterm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- The effect of maternal voice and non-nutritional sucking on repeated procedural pain of heel prick in neonates: a quasi-experimental study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Neuroprotective therapies in the NICU in preterm infants: present and future (Neonatal Neurocritical Care Series).Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Language Exposure for Preterm Infants is Reduced Relative to Fetuses.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Sensory stimulation for apnoea mitigation in preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2022Review
- Early development of sleep and brain functional connectivity in term-born and preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2022Review
- Parental Book-Reading to Preterm Born Infants in NICU: The Effects on Language Development in the First Two Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Assessment of Sleep-Related Problems in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using the SNAKE Sleep Questionnaire.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Assessing speech exposure in the NICU: Implications for speech enrichment for preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2020Article
- Association between sleep behavior and motor development in preterm infants.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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- Erratum issued
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundApproximately 10% of US newborns require a NICU. We evaluated whether the NICU acoustic environment affects neonatal sleep and whether exposure to the mother's voice can modulate that impact.
methodsIn a level IV NICU with single-infant rooms, 47 neonates underwent 12-hour polysomnography. Their mothers were recorded reading children's books. Continuous maternal voice playback was randomized to either the first or second 6 hours of the polysomnogram. Regression models were used to examine sleep-wake stages, entropy, EEG power, and the probability of awakening in response to ambient noise during and without voice playback.
resultsAfter epochs with elevated noise, the probability was higher with (versus without) maternal voice exposure of neonates staying asleep (
conclusionsHospitalized newborns born at ≥35 weeks' gestation but not at 33 to 34 weeks' gestation show increasing wakefulness in response to their mother's voice. However, exposure to the mother's voice during sleep may also help protect newborns from awakening after bursts of loud hospital noise.
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