Musicoterapia em UTI neonatal: um estudo sobre intervenção precoce com as mães sob uma ótica psicocorporal

Abstract

Having a child hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is distressing for the mother, causing her physical and emotional tension, which we call “armors in parenting”, that slow efforts to the establishment of the mother-infant bond. The mother needs a host by the health team that works in the NICU so that she can bring a minimum of peace to her son or daughter. Music is a form of stress relief promoted by music therapy in hospitalization, despite still being in its infancy its insertion in NICU. The overall objective of this work is to study how music therapy can perform an early intervention working with mothers of infants admitted to NICU, by the relief of the mother’s anxiety through music and through the mother’s body mobilization, for the promotion of health of mothers and babies. We develop a theoretical review on the themes: “parenting”, “music therapy”, “body”, “NICU”, “care and humanization in NICU”, and “early intervention”. The use of songs that are part of the “identity soundtrack” of mothers find for opening channels of communication between the music therapist and the others, allowing work their armor so they enable the care of their children in a more integral way, emotionally and bodily. The hospitalization in NICU of the recently born child can bring consequences for the body of the mother, expressed in the form of Armors. Armors are psychologically and bodily events in the individual body stiffens and emotionally, in order to be close to something bad that has happened, as a shield of protection The NICU is a provocateur of armors in moms of babies hospitalized, impairing the exercise of parenting and therefore, is a place conducive to early intervention. Working with mothers by psychological and bodily optics in music therapy can offer emotional support to mother to strengthen her bond with their children, helping both to overcome this difficult period of their lives.