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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Linda Geddes Science correspondent

REVEALED: Music may reduce babies pain during jabs or heel prick tests study suggests - The Real Truth

feet of a newborn baby cradled by adult hands
Playing a Mozart lullaby may help reduce the pain that newborns feel when undergoing a heel prick blood test, the new study suggests. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Playing music such as a Mozart lullaby to babies may help reduce their suffering during painful procedures, research suggests.

Minor medical procedures such as injections or heel-prick blood tests are commonly performed on newborn infants, and while some people have argued that babies’ brains are not developed enough for them to really feel pain, recent research has suggested that they experience it much like adults do.

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