Sing&Grow Music Play

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Music Play

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Creative Communication

Anne will explore how music can be used as a powerful tool for creative communication in early literacy. The presentation will focus on how rhythm, melody, movement, and visual supports can help children express ideas, develop language, and build connections, particularly for children who communicate in diverse ways.

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Lou Matrescence and Music

Matrescence and Music in Perinatal Care

Lou from Sing&Grow explores what is matrescence, and sharing how music in the prenatal and perinatal period can support emotional regulation, bonding, and wellbeing for parents and infants alike.

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Matrescence Resources

Ted Talk by Dr. Alexandra Saks (2018)

A new way to think about the transition to motherhood

Article: Dr. Aurelia Athan (2019)

Matrescence: the emerging mother

Podcasts

Happy Mama Movement (Amy Taylor-Kabbaz)

The Good Enough Mother (Dr. Sophie Brock)

Motherkind (Zoe Blaskey)

New Baby...New Brain....Matrescence (Imperfects Podcast with Dr. Edna Lekgabe)

Postnatal Depletion with Dr. Oscar Serrallach (The Happy Mama Movement Ep. 111)

Matrescence and the transition to Mother (Amy Taylor-Kabbaz, Ep. 67)

Books

Matrescence: on the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood (Lucy Jones, 2023)

Mama Rising: Discovering the New You Through Motherhood (Amy Taylor-Kabbaz, 2019)

The Postnatal Depletion Cure (Dr. Oscar Serralach, 2018)

 

Other Resources: Matrescence

 Petition - It's time to GAF about mothers, add matrescence to the dictionary (Peanut)

Documentary - Matrescence The Hidden World of M/otherhood 

Survey results - The Motherhood Index (Peanut x Nuna 2026)

Course - Mama Rising Facilitator Training and Coaching Certification 

Music Resources

Articles

The Music of Matrescence: The Missing Link in our Understanding of Mother-Infant Bonding Through Interactive Music. A Commentary on Vazquez-Diaz de Leon (2024), Empirical Musicology Review 19(1), 72-75

The effect of mother-infant group music classes on post-natal depression - a systematic review protocol, PLoS One

How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview, Arch Womens Mental Health, 24(5), 831-839

Books

Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing by Dr Rosie Perkins (2024)

Professional Development Workshops

Music for Developing Brains, by Sing&Grow

Time for Tunes, by Sing&Grow

Music Groups

Sing&Grow music therapy program for families with young children

Singing Mamas (UK based), some groups in Australia

Allison Davies - Music and the Brain

Melodic Mantras (You Tube Channel)

Melodic Mantras (Blog Post)

A Gathering of Voices (online singing community)

 

Listen: Albums

Matrescence by Claire Tonti

Let's Sing&Grow by Sing&Grow

“ Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning”

Diane Ackerman
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Matrescence and Music

Lou from our Sing&Grow program will focus on Matrescence—the emotional and identity transition into parenthood—and its importance in the prenatal and perinatal period. Lou will focus on how shared musical experiences can support emotional regulation, bonding, and wellbeing for parents and infants.

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Resources

How can I get involved?

Family groups (consisting of Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers, children and babies) meet weekly with the elderly in safe and suitable facilities. Attendees engage in a diverse array of play-based learning activities and interactions, fostering connections with other families in their local communities and establishing mutually beneficial relationships with older people.

How can I get involved?

Family groups (consisting of Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers, children and babies) meet weekly with the elderly in safe and suitable facilities. Attendees engage in a diverse array of play-based learning activities and interactions, fostering connections with other families in their local communities and establishing mutually beneficial relationships with older people.

How can I get involved?

Family groups (consisting of Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers, children and babies) meet weekly with the elderly in safe and suitable facilities. Attendees engage in a diverse array of play-based learning activities and interactions, fostering connections with other families in their local communities and establishing mutually beneficial relationships with older people.

How can I get involved?

Family groups (consisting of Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers, children and babies) meet weekly with the elderly in safe and suitable facilities. Attendees engage in a diverse array of play-based learning activities and interactions, fostering connections with other families in their local communities and establishing mutually beneficial relationships with older people.