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'The Singing Doctor' Croons to Newborns in the Delivery Room
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC News
Posted: September 2nd, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/US/singing-doctor-croons-newborns-deli...
When newborn babies come into the world at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, the first thing they hear is a song. The soothing melodies come not from a CD, an iPod or even their own parents, but from the very doctor who delivered them. Ive delivered about 8,000 babies and I must have sung ... to six or [seven thousand] of them, Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja told ABC News. Dr. Andrew-Jaja began the practice of singing to the tiny humans he just delivered while he was a young resident and learning from a physician who did the same. He was about to retire. He asked me to continue the tradition, he said. And Ive done it ever since. Dr. Andrew-Jajas repertoire of songs includes everything from the expected Happy Birthday to the more unexpected like What a Wonderful World." Sometimes the pregnancy has been difficult, the delivery has been complex and yet most of the time out comes this beautiful baby and its a moment when you forget that fear, he [said]. Dr. Andrew-Jajas talent put him in the spotlight last year when his employer, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, posted a video on his singing tradition to YouTube. When I'm singing to those babies I think that I'm singing to a future important person, Dr. Andrew-Jaja says in the video. That's the credit I give to all of them. So, to me, it's a wonderful thing in my hand, the miracle of life," he said. You forget about all the crisis going on everywhere, for a moment, when you see that miracle of life in front of you.
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