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Heart rate
Respiration
Natalia, Johanna: Te Influence of Soft Music on Newborns ...
As with the heart rate, there was no significant difference between
newborns with soft music and no music. This time, even if we judge only
visually from the graph (picture 2), it is hard to see any difference. This
result tends to indicate that music had little or no effect.
Respiration rate
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Picture 1 . Trend o f heart rate fre
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Another indicator of newborn's emotion is good and fast physical
growth. If a newborn's emotion is good he or she would drink more. This
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Period
Control Experiment
Picture 2. Trend of respiration frequency
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Period
Control Experiment
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