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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Mon Sep 16, 2002  2:35 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] myth or fact?

I've had several singer friends who have had babies, and their experiences
have all been similar. They actually find that during the second
trimester, their singing seems to improve - something about the additional
"support" caused by the growing fetus? - but that after the delivery, they
have had to work for 6-12 months to regain the necessary tautness in the
pubo-coccyxial musculature. In the case of one friend, who had an
epesiotomy, it took her even longer, and indeed she says she feels she has
never completely regained either the sensory awareness or sense of support
that she had before the birth. Another friend had a C-section, and also
felt a little "nervous" about working much on her vocal technique for
several months - just as she felt a bit "nervous" about doing other things
that caused "twinges" in her scars. Finally, I have heard that women who
have lots of children - and especially those who have repeated C-sections
- sometimes never regain the support from those muscles; Montserrat
Caballe actually speaks of having had to develop a whole new approach to
breathing and support after having had multiple C-section deliveries; for
her, everything below the waist became pretty much non-functional, in
terms of singing, and she managed to compensate by developing extremely
good diaphragmatic breathing and intercostal support.

Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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