baby's reaction to music

[prudy]

My son was born in January l956. He was a good baby, but when he woke (about every four hours), he was ravenous. My milk went away after two months, and he was taking formula when this incident happened, so I think he was between two and three months old. We were living in Albany, Georgia. My husband was in the Air Force and was stationed there. The radio programming was limited, and we had no television. When I say limited, I mean it was mostly gospel quartets which I hated and soap operas which I also hated. One Saturday afternoon, the music was pretty good, it included some light classics. What a treat. Anyway my son awoke, began demanding his bottle in a very loud voice, and I rushed to accommodate him. I got the bottle ready, sat down on the couch to feed him, and he began gulping greedily as usual. Up to this point in his life, nothing took precedence over food, and he certainly paid no attention to the radio. Just as he was about three gulps in, Malaguena began to play. He stopped eating, turned his head to the music and refused to be distracted by anything. If I moved him to another position, he turned his head to the music. Nothing that I did changed his mind. He ignored me and refused to even consider his bottle. The classical treatment of Malaguena takes about five minutes at least. When it finally finished, he latched on to his bottle and paid no more attention to the music on the radio. When he got old enough to use crayons, etc., he began to do a lot of pictures of windmills. I must have been an idiot, because I tried getting him picture books about Holland. He was polite about it, but they really didn't interest him. When I finally did remember what it was Don Quijote (sp) was tilting at, he was a lot older, and I don't think I even bothered to see if it interested him. A few years ago, however, he told me that someday he wanted to visit Spain. He wanted to go to some rather obscure place in the north. I've always wondered if there was a bit of past life peaking through.

 

[Moonbeam]

Prudy, Welcome!

How intriguing and exciting! I think that was a past life peeking through. Is he interested in the provinces of Galecia or Asturias? That is where my father's family is from and I can tell you a lot about it. Galecia is actually *Gaelic*.... that is where many Gaelic people settled, and to this day the music reflects the heritage---they use bagpipes! My great grandfather was a blonde, blue eyed 'Gallego'. Asturias is just to the east of Galecia, and many people fled there when the Moors invaded Spain. It is said that the most beautiful women in the world are Asturianas... maybe he left his heart there in a past life.



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Moonbeam

 

[kristenfaye]

Hi prudy. it's very possible the sound of the music struck a familiar chord in your son. What does he think? Have you ever told him about this? My daughter Savannah,4yrs. old, who I wrote about in a previous post(6-27-00) also seems attuned to certain music. Once when I was playing a tape with late sixties music, she came into the kitchen, put her arms out and started spinning and dancing, just like the "hippies" used to do at Woodstock and such.(I was only two then,but I've seen pictures and videos, LOL!) And she looked like one-she was spinning and throwing her head back,so that her hair,which is very long and curly,was just flying all around. It seemed like she just knew to do this,or had done it before. And just today,I bought a childrens classical tape for her, and when one song came on, which sounded like a waltz, she started spinning in large circles and dancing slow. She had heard 5 other songs before this one, but this one made her dance.And the strange part was the end because she put her arm over her middle, like the gentlemen used to do at the end of a waltz, and took a bow. She's danced before to different songs, but has never done the bow, except for this one song where it was appropriate. And this was the first time that she's really listened to music like this. So, like your son, I believe a past life(or two) of hers shows through at certain times.

 

[Galadriel]

It's likely a past life. When I was pregnant with my son, I kept getting visions of Native American life, which I took to be his way of saying hi, this is who I am. And when he was a baby, the quickest way to calm him down was to play a cd we have of Native American flute music.

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[This message has been edited by Galadriel (edited 09-21-2000).]