Music and Perinatal Wellbeing

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We are a team of researchers from the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance at the University of Limerick who are keen to explore how music can be used to support health and wellbeing during pregnancy, childbirth, and after birth.

It has been a busy July for the Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Group!We travelled to Bologna, to share the late...
24/07/2026

It has been a busy July for the Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Group!
We travelled to Bologna, to share the latest research from our research group. It was a wonderful opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the world and have conversations about how music and music therapy can support perinatal and infant wellbeing.

Our presentations:

🤰 MuM (Mums Using Music): Exploring an interdisciplinary music programme designed to promote mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy.

🎵 Music and Perinatal Wellbeing: Sharing a holistic model of perinatal wellbeing, shaped by mixed methods research and the lived experiences of families.

👶 "We're told what not to do, but not what to do": Co-designing a family-centred, resource-oriented music therapy programme with caregivers and healthcare professionals in neonatal care.

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✨ A very exciting event is coming up this May! ✨The Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Research Group invites paren...
20/04/2026

✨ A very exciting event is coming up this May! ✨

The Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Research Group invites parents, healthcare practitioners, researchers and music therapists to join us online for a FREE webinar on Music Therapy in Neonatal Care.

Our keynote speaker Dr Mark Ettenberger and doctoral music therapy researcher Kyriaki Pantelidou will share their clinical experience and research, along with practical insights and tips on using music in neonatal care.

Dr Mark Ettenberger is Director of SONO – Centro de Musicoterapia and trained in Neonatal Music Therapy (RBL) at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine. He has extensive experience working with families in neonatal care.

Kyriaki Pantelidou is a doctoral researcher at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, currently conducting a music therapy study in neonatal settings at Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals.

📅 11 May
⏰ 3–4 PM
💻 Online & free to attend

Register here (updated link): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rGVYprCNT_y-gOEHezmddg #/registration

We’d love to see you there 💛

✨ A very exciting event is coming up this May! ✨The Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Research Group invites paren...
14/04/2026

✨ A very exciting event is coming up this May! ✨

The Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Research Group invites parents, healthcare practitioners, researchers and music therapists to join us online for a FREE webinar on Music Therapy in Neonatal Care.

Our keynote speaker Dr Mark Ettenberger and doctoral music therapy researcher Kyriaki Pantelidou will describe music therapy practice and research in neonatal care, along with practical insights and tips on using music in neonatal care.

Dr Mark Ettenberger is Director of SONO – Centro de Musicoterapia and trained in Neonatal Music Therapy (RBL) at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine. He has extensive experience working with families in neonatal care.

Kyriaki Pantelidou is a doctoral researcher at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, currently conducting a music therapy study in neonatal settings at Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals.

📅 11 May
⏰ 3–4 PM
💻 Online & free to attend



We’d love to see you there 💛

🎶 Music-Listening during ChildbirthIf you’re a midwife, obstetrician, or doula working in reland, we would also love to ...
12/03/2026

🎶 Music-Listening during Childbirth

If you’re a midwife, obstetrician, or doula working in reland, we would also love to hear your views in our short 7–8 minute national survey exploring perspectives on music listening during childbirth.

Your insights will help inform future maternity care.

🔗 Take the survey here (link also in bio):
https://unioflimerick.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8A0emmZWXbmSyVw

Thank you for supporting research from the Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing Research Group, University of Limerick.



– Quick Quiz!👇🏼
Music listening during childbirth may support women in which of the following ways?

21/01/2026

New Podcast Out Now 🎧

We’re delighted to share a new podcast from the University of Limerick featuring Dr Tríona McCaffrey and Maria Gibbons:

🎶 Music for Parental and Infant Wellbeing: From Pregnancy to Early Parenthood

This episode explores how music can support parents and infants across pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood, drawing on research, practice, and lived experience.

🔗 Listen here (link also in bio):

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/universitylimerick/episodes/2025-12-27T12_40_58-08_00


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If you're a midwife, obstetrician or a doula in Ireland you can help us understand how music is used during childbirth!C...
09/12/2025

If you're a midwife, obstetrician or a doula in Ireland you can help us understand how music is used during childbirth!

Complete this anonymous short survey about music listening in childbirth.

https://unioflimerick.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8A0emmZWXbmSyVw (link also in bio)
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Congratulations to Dr TrĂ­ona McCaffrey, Associate Professor of Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dan...
04/12/2025

Congratulations to Dr Tríona McCaffrey, Associate Professor of Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance who has been announced as joint winner of the Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher – Starting Award 2025.  Tríona’s research focuses on music for mental wellbeing, specifically in the areas of adult mental health and perinatal mental health.  As Director of the UL ‘Music for Parent and Infant Wellbeing’ Tríona has led novel interdisciplinary research across music therapy, midwifery, psychiatry, and obstetrics with a strong emphasis on Public and Patient Involvement (PPI). She is also a member of the UL Participatory Health Research Unit at the Health Research Institute. Tríona has carried out several research projects related to perinatal mental health, perinatal wellbeing, music listening for childbirth, songwriting for bonding in pregnancy, maternal singing in neonatal care, and is currently collaborating with Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street on research that focuses on a current family-centred music therapy in neonatal care. Her pioneering collaborations with University Maternity Hospital Limerick has led to the first music therapy programme in specialist perinatal mental health services in Ireland, a programme that has been commended by the Department of Health.

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