The Song in the Dark

When journalist Sarah Bessey's daughter was born premature at a hospital in Abbotsford, British Columbia, the NICU nurses told her something she never forgot. They said the babies who were held and sung to — even the smallest ones, even the ones too sedated to respond — healed faster. So Sarah sat beside that plastic isolette night after night, her hand resting on her daughter's back, and she sang.…