Singing in pregnancy: a mother tells her experience

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I will tell you my experience of what the singing was pregnant ...

Ci Ari Siteers, I present myself are Floriana Mungari, professional singer, singing teacher and Matteo's mother of 4 years and, for a week, mother also of little Giorgio.
I want to share this experience with all of you, as if it were the page of a diary. I cannot have the presumption of calling it article but testimony yes.
I dedicate these words to my voice, to my song that in pregnancy saved me for the umpteenth time.
A voice that I lived intimately and made you hear very little outside.

I lived two different experiences.

The first pregnancy had my own fundamental element of my and my son. The singing allowed me to continue to live my daily life without changing "too much" the life I led until the time of discovery of waiting. I sang up to 5 days before the birth, and it was beautiful.
The voice clearly took on a different aspect from that always had in a condition of "normality".
It was a controlled voice, curated for nine months and trained thanks to the constant presence of the master Albert Hera who with the due precautions accompanied us until the end of the course.
The rumor consciously adapted especially to the ninth month when space and breath decreased considerably. Following the birth I wanted to follow speech therapy sessions to get back on sixth.
The second pregnancy was the pregnancy of silence.
The pregnancy of Lockdown, of the absence of contact with the external world, of Covid and my parents positive to this virus, was the pregnancy of panic attacks in which the voice did not want to get out before a few weeks ago.

Song and voice in pregnancy awareness tools

The psychological aspect of a pregnant woman, singer, is very delicate.
Those who until a few days before finds themselves using something that belongs to them deeply, and at a certain point they find themselves no longer having the strength to be able to make it live a remarkable discomfort.
The main source of communication fails and leaves room for silence, to the break (only afterwards if it understands its meaning). The voice for a mother is an element of profound connection with the creature it carries on her lap and this is why it cannot be left "inclined".

I heavily warned the big vocal change from the second quarter onwards, from 5 months more or less. The voice was without presence, the sound was tired, fievole, completely absent from "air column" and support.
I believe that the psychological component, until the belly implemented its explosion, was decisive.

The ninth month was that of the awareness of the "rebirth" and with it the awareness of a voice that felt the need to cradle, of caressing with kindness not giving too much weight to the absent technical aspect, to the inaccuracies that the physical condition banging me in Do at that moment and that on other occasions I would have lived as a defeat, but now they were a victory.

Silence and listening can become allies of our voice

My voice had chosen the silence for a long time, he asked me for preparation for listening to what would have been and rest for what would happen shortly thereafter.
During the birth my voice exploded again.
To contain the contractions from active labor, those that make you feel a very small part of the universe for all the pain you feel but then in the following moment make you feel the mammal stronger on the earth capable of facing and defeating 100 lions together, I asked for help from my mechanism of the head and the high notes that made me vibrate to achieve the most divine aspect of the moment.
My voice during labor has manifested itself in its most acute and controlled quality.
A deep inspiration and an acute note full of flow to accompany that painful wave outside that was hitting me at that moment.
Only there did I understand I prepared for nine months for one of the most important performances of my life.
I was the protagonist and at the same time a spectator of a fantastic composition, the overrote of my son Giorgio's life who was being born.