Vuori, Hilkka-Liisa, Laitinen, Marjaana:

Synnytyslaulu - rentouttava äänenkäyttö synnytyksessä ja raskauden aikana (Edita 2005).  A book in Finnish

Synnytyslaulu - metodin avulla raskaana oleva nainen oppii käyttämään ääntään tietoisesti ja hallitusti synnytyksessä ja raskauden aikana. Keskittyneen äänen tekeminen vaikuttaa kolmella tavalla: ääni rentouttaa kehoa, rauhoittaa mielen ja toistettaessa syventää hengitystä.  Nainen on valmiimpi kohtaamaan kipua.

Synnytyslaulu on rentouttavan äänen tekemistä synnytyksessä. Sinu ei tarvitse ns. osata laulaa!

Kirjaa saa kirjakaupoista, mutta aivan varmasti meiltä tekijöiltä. 

tilaukset: hilkka-liisa.vuori[et]saunalahti.fi

Kirja 15 euroa + postituskulut 2,5 euroa.

Kirja on Terveyden edistämisen keskus ry:n arvioima vuonna 2005:"Uraauurtava ja tärkeä teos äänen merkityksestä synnytyksessä."

Childbirth Singing - Relaxing Sounds in Childbirth and Pregnancy

Women naturally make sounds during labour, but these are usually uncontrolled. Women can learn to use relaxing sounds consciously and deliberately to ease pain during contractions.This book demonstrates the therapeutic and relaxing effect of sounds. Making conscious sounds relaxes the body, soothes the mind and induces deeper breathing. A tense body feels pain more sharply, and making relaxing sounds helps ease pain. Singing is also good for babies. Songs do not have to be complicated; they can be humming and tender words. The important thing is the feeling that a singing mother and father convey to a baby.In addition to expectant mothers and fathers the book is suitable for midwives, clinic and hospital employees and other healthcare professionals as well as students.The authors, music pedagogue Hilkka-Liisa Vuori and music therapist Mariaana Laitinen, have taught childbirth singing for several years, for example in the natural childbirth ward at the Helsinki Maternity Hospital.

ISBN 951-37-4404-3, 143 pages, 20 EUR

 So far the book is only available in Finnish!!

About the book by author:

For first, there are not any books about this subject, in any language.  There are few articles. It is written for pregnant women, and everybody around them.  I am teaching women how to use their own voice as a relaxant during the childbirth, but also already during the pregnancy. The book is practical. It has also a very interesting beginning with the meaning of sound touching us. Especially I use “soundtouching” together with hands.  Sound is also communicating with one's own soul and the baby. It is about accepting oneself with a tender voice.  All exercises are very tender, it is a meditation on the beginning of life, the core of a woman. However, during the birth, woman's voice grows in strength and power as the contractions grow stronger. But the use of voice is controlled. Midwives say that soundmothers are very centred focused on what they are doing. The technique I teach is simple. Some women say that they did with me only one hour presentation practices, and then they used their own voice in birth. And these women are not singers. The knowledge is already right in them. I just wake it up. That is why there are also the cultural chapters in the book.

Also many men are using their voice in the labour!

I find the book very spiritual, but also I have wanted to write it to be scientifically accepted. The other author has been a critical music therapist, who has all the time commented on my writing. The publisher in Finland is Edita, which publishes schoolbooks and scientific books. The book is accepted by midwives - I teach on regular bases in the local hospital in Helsinki.  I have myself given "sound birth" to two of my children.

with love to life,

Hilkka-Liisa Vuori