My baby boy struggled for his life when he was born, and stayed in hospital for 3 months. A friend gave me a CD which the nurses in the ICU played for him every night. It's called "Bedtime prayers" by Twila Paris and it always calmed him down. This is one of my favourites...
"Perfect Peace"
Do not be afraid little lamb
Trust Him while you are sleeping
Angels over your cradle will stand
Silent watch they are keeping
Think about these things
And love will guide your dreams
And He will keep you in perfect peace
Perfect peace, perfect peace
He will keep you in perfect peace
If you keep your mind on Him
You are never alone little lamb
For the Father is near you
You are tenderly held in his hands
Whisper and he will hear you
Think about these things
And love will guide your dreams
And He will keep you in perfect peace
Perfect peace, perfect peace
He will keep you in perfect peace
If you keep your mind on Him
Okey dokey, got my music pretty well sorted out for labour. I hijacked some of your ideas from here 8-[ So I thought I'd share....
Baby Baby - Amy Grant
Breath of Heaven - Amy Grant
When I See You Smile - Bad English
I'll Never Stop Loving You - Britney Spears
Come Down - Bush
I Turn To You - Christina Aguilera
Blessed - Christina Aguilera
I Live For You - Chynna Phillips
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
To Be Loved - Curtis Stigers
Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
Can't Ever Get Enough of You - Darren Hayes
Thank You - Dido
A Whole New World - Disney
Landslide - Dixie Chicks
My Immortal - Evanescence
Superman - Five For Fighting
Did You Ever Love Somebody - Jessica Simpson
Gorecki - Lamb
High - Lighthouse Family
Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt
You Are My Life - Michael Jackson
Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
Innocent Eyes - Roachford
Angel - Sarah MacLachlan
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden
From This Moment - Shania Twain
Greatest Gift - Tina Arena
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
How about Beautiful In My Eyes by Joshua Kadison. Or Blessed or Your Song by Elton John. Um... also maybe True Colours by Cyndi Lauper. Those are a few that I've got down on my list.
Just a quick ?? Where do you girls download your music from??? I have been trying bigpond and msn today and for some reason my internet explorer keeps crashing whenever I go to their pages. Stupid puter.
I've started to think about making a playlist for labour but I have no idea what kind of music I would like to listen to whilst labouring :-k #-o .
I'd really appreciate it if people could tell me what they listened to/are planning to listen to and why it was good/bad.
DH loves RnB, rap and hip hop and not much else but alot of what we have is kind of obscene and I'm not sure that I would want it to be the first thing my baby hears.
hi dash
i had some relaxation cd's - like ocean sounds with soft music (got them from Big W for a couple of dollars) plus i made a few cds of my favourite music - for most of the day i just had the radio going & then as labour intensified i got mum to put my robbie williams cd on - well i couldn't stand the sound of him singing & the relaxation ones didn't help either!! so much for my music plans
good luck with your choices - sorry i wasnt much help
Dach i played inspiring songs to do with birth like- with arms wide open and thing slike that. I also played my power music (stuff that makes me feel good and proud of who i am)
I will see if i can find the cd and let you know
I must admit playing music and singing while in the bath was what got me through my contractions without pain relief
I would suggest that ypu paly any music that you want. It does not matter what DH likes. Also your baby has already heard your music so playing it in the labour ward is not a problem.
I had Enya playing the whole time. My dh changed it to Riverdance for a little bit but I wanted my Enya back on. I still trance into a world of my own when I listen to it so I think I will be using Enya next time round too. Best bit is it helped DS calm down when he wouldn't sleep in the first couple of months.
I have an MP3 player now, so I wont have to listen to just one CD on repeat.
Dach,
My girlfriends got together and burnt a CD of songs that reminded them of me, pitty I had a planned c-sect that they didn't know about..lol
It makes me laugh and cry and smile as all the songs have a significant meaning and I hadn't heard them for awhile.
They did however also throw in a CD of my fav songs and relaxation. Maybe get a CD and get friends and family to download some songs and don't listen to it to you get to the hospital, it might take your mind of labour...always take a back up though cause I ended up with a tad too much of Peter Andre 8-[ !!!
Bec
I'll be listening to my hypnotherapy CD's (but not till I need them LOL won't use up all my resources at once ) as well as the music CD I have that goes with the hypnotherapy... can't remember the name *argh* will go get it later... I tell you when I'm sitting unless its god damn urgent I'm in no rush to get up (good ole' Pelvic instability LOL). ANYWAY... other music might be Gorecki (Paris' song) and Gabriel (Seth's song) by Lamb, probably alot of Lamb actually, and some sigur ros I think thats really nice music. Maybe some delerium. I'll try to stear clear of lyrics if I can just cos it may bug me (I know delerium & lamb have lyrics LOL).
Well I must say that I was quite happy with my playlist leading up to & after Zander's birth. I played it to him before he was born so he'd get used to the music & it would help him fall asleep afterwards.
My only problem was that I couldn't hear it at the hospital cos they had it turned down so low Personally I think I would have preferred it blaring LOL!!! I actually only found out recently that it was playing all day, I had thought someone turned it off about lunchtime, but I wasn't in the frame of mind to ask for it to be put back on/turned up LOL!
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) as well as the music CD I have that goes with the hypnotherapy... can't remember the name *argh* will go get it later... I tell you when I'm sitting unless its god damn urgent I'm in no rush to get up (good ole' Pelvic instability LOL). ANYWAY... other music might be Gorecki (Paris' song) and Gabriel (Seth's song) by Lamb, probably alot of Lamb actually, and some sigur ros I think thats really nice music. Maybe some delerium. I'll try to stear clear of lyrics if I can just cos it may bug me (I know delerium & lamb have lyrics LOL).
Personally I think I would have preferred it blaring LOL!!! I actually only found out recently that it was playing all day, I had thought someone turned it off about lunchtime, but I wasn't in the frame of mind to ask for it to be put back on/turned up LOL!
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