Voice (with or without guitar)- lullaby/ Holding meter

Simple rhythms using Remo Gato box will be played by the MT-BC using a 3rd to comfort, engage or sedate

Creating a consistent womb-like sound soundscape to comfort, engage or sedate

Provision of communicative vocalization-"parantese" to engage with infants, prosodic responses to infant cues (eye contact, body position)

Providing a 'blanket of tone' to comfort, engage or sedate

Music therapists will assess meaningful song/theme (of choice/culture) and provide musical elements in a way that nurtures parents. They will then develop a simplified part of the theme into a soothing lullaby for their infants to be utilized directly by the parent/s and/or the music therapist to comfort, engage or sedate.

Oxygen saturation levels (O2 sats)

The neonatologist or nurse will assess and mark as active/alert, active to stimulation, flaccid, hypertonic, hypotonic, irritable, jittery, lethargic, paralyzed&medicated, quiet, sedated, or tremors

The neonatologist or nurse will assess and mark as quiet sleep, active sleep, drowsy state, alert inactivity, fussing or crying.

The neonatologist or nurse will rate feeding (sucking/absorption) from 1 (active/perpetual) to 12 (none/gavage)

The NAS score lists 21 symptoms that are most frequently observed in opiate-exposed infants. Each symptom and its associated degree of severity are assigned a score and the total abstinence score is determined by totalling the score assigned to each symptom over the scoring period. Please provide the full scale info (example 0 (no symptoms) to 10 (severe symptoms)

Questionnaire to assess capacity for attachment in both mothers and fathers. 25 item scale with each item rated from always to never. Scoring is based on four categories: impaired bonding scores 0-60, rejection and pathological anger scores 0-35, infant-focused anxiety scores 0-20, and incipient abuse scores 0-10. Total range from 0 (good bonding) to 125 (poor bonding).