Life vs. Digital Music Interventions Performed by Professionals Throughout Pregnancy to Increase Mental Health for Mothers and Their Offspring

"Pregnant women are invited from 12 gestational weeks onwards to participate in active and passive interventions following a protocol derived from our feasibility study. The following interventions take place:~LIVE GROUP~1. concerts customized for pregnant women by professionals. They talk before and in between the concerts about the meaning of the music with the study attendants. The sessions take around one hour.~2. workshops in singing led by professional coaches performed in small groups within the Philharmonic building involving pregnant women to actively learn melodies of songs which they can repeat at home on a daily basis.~3. workshops in dancing led by professional coaches performed in small groups within the Philharmonic building involving pregnant women to actively learn to move with music which they can repeat at home on a daily basis.~DIGITAL GROUP The described interventions are all digitalized with interviews encouraging the second group to participate from home."