I can second Lisa's story about voice and muturation. My sister is a
professional singer, and educator both in music school and with private
students. She had her children later (#1 at around 30), when her voice had
reached almost her full depth. Her voice is a very warm and full soprano with a
broad reach. Pregnancy and childbirth only seemed to deepen (not lower but
broader) her voice.
BTW she is mentoring a student who facilitates a mother-and baby/toddler music
class ''singing on the lap'', to teach mothers how to sing and play with their
babies. My sister used to raise her eyebrows when I started as a LLLleader and
later as a LC: ''how on earth could it be possible that you have to teach people
about breastfeeding'' and now I wonder to her the same about playing and singing
with one's children :-). I think the loss of both arts (breastfeeding and
singing/playing with children) have the same background: smaller families and
medicalization or professionalisation of a great part of our lives and with that
the loss of sense for natural things.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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