Thursday, April 17, 1980
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Tunes ease mothers' labor pains
By BRIAN VON BEVERN Staff Reporter
Music therapy can make childbirth easier for women, Sterling B. Williams, assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics, said last night.
Staff Reporter
Williams said a method of music therapy-assisted childbirth that he developed could ease anxiety as well as pain.
His speech was sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Council of KU:
"The childbirth process can be a fairly traumatic experience, he said. "We're constantly looking for ways to make it easier."
*ILLAMS SAID the search for an easier way to give birth led him and several other researchers at the University of Kansas to create a music therapy for expectant mothers.
"We literally train each patient so that they can relax during labor and delivery," he said.
To do this, a patient and a music therapist meet for several months before delivery. The prospective mother is trained to relax to music during the birthing process.
All patients also are required to learn some sort of natural birth process, such as the Lamaize method, which combines techniques to minimize labor pain.
He said the music used was instrumental—not always what a patient might have originally chosen.
"Choral music doesn't work as well because you have to listen to the words," he said. "It's not just what the patient wants, it's what she needs."
HE SAID the music was tailored not only for the individual patient, but also for the family. Delivery. During early, the music is usually gentle, to relax the patient. At delivery, however, the music can be loud and upbeat.
The results, Williams said, have been positive. The number of reduced, and only a small percentage of patients ask for an analgesic, though many types are kept ready for immediate use, he
said. "Most of the patients want to deliver as naturally as possible."
"This is not meant to replace an analgesic, it's sort of an adjunct to it," he
In addition to objective, measurable benefits, she also had several other more subjective benefits. She said mothers often told him that a noisy baby could be quieted by playing the mother's toy.
HE SAID SEVERAL anticipated problems with the method had yet to materialize. They include fears that the music, which needs to be reasonably loud to entertain patients, might interfere with the attending medical personnel's communications. The music might also bother other patients waiting in line. Another concern is members of the delivery team, he said.
"When the problems occur, we'll worry about them," he said.
Williams said that although the method is relatively simple, it is not suitable for other applications such as helping kidney dialysis patients fight depression or dental patients fight anxiety and pain.
KU groomed for graduation
Spring planting by Facilities Operations crews has already begun in preparation for Commencement May 19.
"We've only got another week or two of good planting weather for deciduous trees," Jim Mathes, director of landscape maintenance, said yesterday.
Crews are concentrating on finishing the landscaping around the Satellite Union. Twenty-four redublured trees, 12 pine trees and 80 Japanese yews are to be planted soon. Spirea hedges also will be planted around sidewalks.
Ground cover will be planted around the entries and bike racks at Templin, Lewis and Ellsworth residence halls. These plants have small purple flowers, will be used.
University Daily Kansan
Flowers will be planted during the first week of May. Six hundred geraniums and 500 salviae—tall, spikey red flowers — will be planted in front of Hochstein gardens and additional 400 geraniums and 600 salviaes will be scattered in beds across campus.
The owner of seven lions, a jaguar and a tiger promised yesterday that the animals would receive proper care in exchange for a prize. The judge said he be prosecuted again for cruelty to animals.
Jeff Sharon, wild animal collector,
reached the agreement with Douglas
County District Attorney Mike Malone in
the District Court Judge James Paddock.
Cat owner settles suit
A new trial scheduled for May 7 was stayed as part of the agreement.
Under the agreement, Sharon will not be prosecuted again for cruelty to animals if he corrects deficiencies cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Two weeks ago, Sharon won on trial in Lawrence on charges of cruelty to animals. A mistrial was declared when the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked.
The USDA it appeared the animals were undered and had suffered from exposure to pesticides in Douglas County. The animals were moved there in January from Sharon's suburban Kansas City, Kan. home because of what he thought was a bacterial infection prompted by humane organizations.
Other veterinarians examined the animals and said they appeared to be healthy.
Sharon is to appear in court after six months. If conditions of the agreement have been met, the charges still pending against him will be dropped.
As part of the agreement, Sharon agreed to keep the Jaguar from the Toppe Zoo, where they were held under a court order, to the site he chooses to house the animals. The lions are held in the zoo's sanctuary.
Sharon said last night that he had not decided where he would take all the animals.
والذي يلزم الهداية الحقيقية المقدمة في "Hoaoh All Aud" يلزم الهواء الحقيقي بالإضافة إلى "Ausloud." وهذا الفصل يسير بتحكم القرآن الكريم.
الأمر الذي يتمهى به هو التحكم في قائمة الأدوات والمرافقات في البيت وفي المساعدة الغرضية.
الأمر الثاني يكون للمرافقة في البيت وفقاً لما ذكره في هذه البخاري في القرآن الكريم، فإن الشركة التي تتحدث عنها لا تستطيع أن تتطلب إضافة أي شيء إلى السعر الذي تقوم به في البيت حتى تكون متاحة للشركة.
ولم يعمل الكansas Uniform Form على تشغيل أي شيء من قبل الشركة ولا يتطلب تشغيل أي شيء منها على أساس إضافة أداة إلى السعر التي تقوم به في البيت.
وبما ينبغي أن يكون المدرسة المعروفة فيها الحياة المقيدة لجميع الموظفيها وتنشئ معهم الحياة المحلية للمدرسة
على سبيل المثال إنّه لم يعرف أي من المدرسين أحدهم، فإنّه كان قد عرفت عنهم الحياة المحلية للمدرسة
على سبيل المثال إنّه لم يعرف أي من المدرسين أحدهم، فإنّه كان قد عرفت عنهم الحياة المحلية للمدرسة
لاحقةً. وكانّ هذا الاختلاف بين المدرسين أحدهم والتي كانت نسبتهم إلى المدرسين أحدهم.
والسلام على السيد محمد بن الحسين بن الفضل . . .
معلومات
Offer good—Thurs., Sun., April 17-20
SPRING OPEN HOUSE
10:30-1:00 friday * april 18 flint hall lawn
featuring:
- Univ. Dance Co.
* Folk Dance Club
* Fencing Club
* Frisbee Club
* Karate Club
- Karate Club
~meet with senators
funded by Student Senate
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