born at 28 weeks. We've been here at Nationwide Children's Hospital for eight and half months.

In the midst of all this, my husband has been deployed. He left us about five weeks after

Hunter was born.

Cassidy: I've heard of The Sounds of Love thru Nationwide Children's, they plays choirs

and meet everybody's parent mail box here at the NICU and listed the details that you

can record a cd for your child. I'm Going to sing you some more songs, how

about rock a by baby? [Mom singing Rock a By Baby]

Suzanne: Good morning, how's Hunter doing? I'm Susan Lynch and I'm the clinical director

of CCBPD. BPD stand for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and it's a form of chronic lung disease that

affects premature infants. Sounds of Love program was started at Nationwide Children's

seven years ago by one of our music therapist and it continuous to be run by our parent

advisory team here in our ICU's, and it allows the family to record with their own voice,

either reading books or singing lullabies so their babies can have their family's voices

near their cribs for up to four hours a day.

[Record Plays: Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away so he said to his mother}

Susan: Some studies have shown a calming effect on the baby, on their heart rate, on their

ability to have good oxygen saturations, which is a measure of their stability. It also shown

benefits for parents' visitation and bonding, and it allows the parents to have a sense

of contributing to the baby's care on the daily basis.

We will be studying the effects of our Sounds of Love program. So we're hoping that we were

able to show that our babies have a reduce length of stay due to this program. The Nationwide

Children's has one of the largest neonatal systems in the country and we would like to

expand our program to include all the nurseries in the Nationwide Neonatal System.

Cassidy: Hunter is taken to my husband's voice since he was about a day old. Having that

Sounds of Love and Hunter being able to hear dad's voice while he's deployed and gone,

I think comforts Hunter. I think with this cd I have noticed that it calms him, it suites

him, when he gets upset and cries, we talk to him or sing to him, he really settles down.

And I'm very glad that Nationwide Children's has offered something like this to us. It's

been a life saver to me, to know that Hunter can still hear dad's voice while he's not

here.