Mozart's Lullaby soothes pain in newborns

A recent study in New York, conducted between April 2019 and February 2020, tested whether recorded music could reduce pain in newborns during routine heel-prick blood tests. Researchers enrolled 100 infants and randomly assigned about half to listen to Mozart’s Lullaby before and during the procedure while the other infants received standard care without the music. Clinicians measured pain using standard scoring tools at baseline, during the prick, and after the procedure to compare responses.

The study found that babies who heard the lullaby had similar pain scores to the control group before the procedure but showed significantly lower pain during and after the heel prick. Those reductions were large enough for researchers to describe them as meaningful, and they suggested recorded music could be a low-cost complement to existing neonatal pain-relief practices for minor procedures. The team also recommended further studies, for example testing parental voice recordings and different clinical settings.

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