Music for babies
Posted by: BLT on 05 August 2003
As a new baby is due to arrive in our house in mid October, does anyone have reccommendations for music that will calm the wee beastie? I have read that it is a good idea to play music to the foetus and then play the same music again when you want your baby to calm down.
I think any music is a good thing.
My son, now 4, knows almost the entire lyrics to some songs I play regularly and from an early age would stop and look to the system if he heard certain songs, often ones we had on in the house before he was born. I often wonder if the constant musical exposure had anything to do with it, but it's great fun to sing along together.
He holds a tune better than me though
A little bit of everything I reckon - you'll still get sleepless nights irrespective, unless you're one of the lucky ones
Andy.
My son, now 4, knows almost the entire lyrics to some songs I play regularly and from an early age would stop and look to the system if he heard certain songs, often ones we had on in the house before he was born. I often wonder if the constant musical exposure had anything to do with it, but it's great fun to sing along together.
He holds a tune better than me though
A little bit of everything I reckon - you'll still get sleepless nights irrespective, unless you're one of the lucky ones
Andy.
I suppose you are getting the message from these posts that we here are not normal. The fact that you ask indicates you are not normal either. Whatever people say, ignore them, they don't understand. Only we know.
My daughter, now 5, had music from before she was born and started music lessons at 6 months. She loves it, and really has great pitch - she has a harmonica at the moment, as well as a 3/4 scale Strat.(daddys girl).
For calming nights, low level ambient stuff is good, especially the more calming stuff produced for meditation you can find in head shops. Otherwise, the vacuum cleaner and hairdryer worked very well, but you won't want those on 24/7.
She asked a couple of years ago for the Neverland song - peter pan I thought - nah...don't know what you mean..no the neverland song...nah ..haven't got it. Turns out she wanted Enter Sandman by Metallica.(daddys girl).
My son, 11 months, loves jazz.
The fun is about to start.
Never, never, be a parent who plonks on Bob the f***ing Builder and The Wheels on the sodding bus. There is no need for that stuff. Children are intelligent people too.
You won't get sleepless nights. We didn't and if they are content and tired, you won't either. Music is the key - I'm sure of it.
Rock on Daddyo..
I know people with kids who don't have any music in their lives whatsoever. Their kids are a nightmare.
My daughter, now 5, had music from before she was born and started music lessons at 6 months. She loves it, and really has great pitch - she has a harmonica at the moment, as well as a 3/4 scale Strat.
(daddys girl).For calming nights, low level ambient stuff is good, especially the more calming stuff produced for meditation you can find in head shops. Otherwise, the vacuum cleaner and hairdryer worked very well, but you won't want those on 24/7.
She asked a couple of years ago for the Neverland song - peter pan I thought - nah...don't know what you mean..no the neverland song...nah ..haven't got it. Turns out she wanted Enter Sandman by Metallica.(daddys girl
).My son, 11 months, loves jazz.
The fun is about to start.
Never, never, be a parent who plonks on Bob the f***ing Builder and The Wheels on the sodding bus. There is no need for that stuff. Children are intelligent people too.
You won't get sleepless nights. We didn't and if they are content and tired, you won't either. Music is the key - I'm sure of it.
Rock on Daddyo..
I know people with kids who don't have any music in their lives whatsoever. Their kids are a nightmare.
...that the Baby Einstein series works very well.
The VCR tapes played through the Naim system sounds quite remarkable, actually. The Baby Einstein versions of songs are instrumented with more upper-midrangy instruments and such - designed "for little ears" as they say.
My 6-month old LOVES music. We dance around to Jazz and Big Band
- GregB and Ian
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The VCR tapes played through the Naim system sounds quite remarkable, actually. The Baby Einstein versions of songs are instrumented with more upper-midrangy instruments and such - designed "for little ears" as they say.
My 6-month old LOVES music. We dance around to Jazz and Big Band
- GregB and Ian
Insert Witty Signature Line Here
You can definitely remember songs you heard in the womb - I'm sure of this...
Make me smile (come up and see me) by Steve Harley was just out before I was born, and I get a lovely warm feeling every time I hear the instrumental bit - even the first time I played it when I was 16 (I had this cheesy 70s compilation CD, and nearly skipped this one 'cos the intro didn't sound "cool" enough for the college I was in - glad I didn't though!).
I was adopted at 3 months, and my foster mum, then adoptive parents never seemed to play much music when I was growing up. Good thing I went to a blind school really, as the cliche's true - I got to hear TONNES of different music there and it was great. Never looked back...
Music seems to work in any situation if you ask me
I don't plan on ever having kids though (due to the disability) - which is a bummer, as I'd like to test my theory out on the foetus - get some totally obscure track they're never likely to hear for themselves (such as a random trance track or some really oddball contempory classical) and then play it to them when they're 15 or so - see what reaction they give - would be very interesting...
When the music's over turn out the lights
Make me smile (come up and see me) by Steve Harley was just out before I was born, and I get a lovely warm feeling every time I hear the instrumental bit - even the first time I played it when I was 16 (I had this cheesy 70s compilation CD, and nearly skipped this one 'cos the intro didn't sound "cool" enough for the college I was in - glad I didn't though!).
I was adopted at 3 months, and my foster mum, then adoptive parents never seemed to play much music when I was growing up. Good thing I went to a blind school really, as the cliche's true - I got to hear TONNES of different music there and it was great. Never looked back...
Music seems to work in any situation if you ask me
I don't plan on ever having kids though (due to the disability) - which is a bummer, as I'd like to test my theory out on the foetus - get some totally obscure track they're never likely to hear for themselves (such as a random trance track or some really oddball contempory classical) and then play it to them when they're 15 or so - see what reaction they give - would be very interesting...
When the music's over turn out the lights
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Originally posted by BLT:
I'll probably come under pressure to buy Bob the Builder CD's eventually, though.
Not true. That sort of stuff creeps in to fill a vacuum when kids grow up in a non-music loving household. So that's not you then
. He/she will have outgrown it before becoming aware of it. Strange but true.Damn, nearly all of my mellow music (and classical) is on vinyl and I recently sold my LP12 
Oh, and Alex, I agree with you about Van Morrison - anyone that does a duet with Sir Cliff loses any respect that I could have had for him. But I can understand why a baby might prefer "Brown Eyed Girl" to Lateralus (which my wife won't allow me to play when she is in the room).
Oh, and Alex, I agree with you about Van Morrison - anyone that does a duet with Sir Cliff loses any respect that I could have had for him. But I can understand why a baby might prefer "Brown Eyed Girl" to Lateralus (which my wife won't allow me to play when she is in the room).
Yep, I'm a member. The 911 is actually a "new" one, the 2.4S that they had was written off a couple of weeks ago (not by a club member). They now have a very nice SC (1981 204bhp model) - unfortunately it had starting problems when I took it out so I didn't get round to doing as many miles as I wanted.
The Aston V8 has been my favourite so far, though
The Aston V8 has been my favourite so far, though
BtB and other stuff.
As Alex says, nothing wrong with this as part of a balanced diet - kids should find out for themselves, through plenty of exposure, what they like to listen to.
The only one that I can't stand is Lewis's sudden liking for playing / singing 'Go tell it on the mountain', but then he's also really diggin' the Propellorheads Decksanddrumsandrockandroll at the moment, so he can't be all bad
He has his own CD player, so he can play what he likes, thanks to Richer Sounds' bargain bin.
Tom's story makes me sad though, that's truly criminal.
Andy.
As Alex says, nothing wrong with this as part of a balanced diet - kids should find out for themselves, through plenty of exposure, what they like to listen to.
The only one that I can't stand is Lewis's sudden liking for playing / singing 'Go tell it on the mountain', but then he's also really diggin' the Propellorheads Decksanddrumsandrockandroll at the moment, so he can't be all bad
He has his own CD player, so he can play what he likes, thanks to Richer Sounds' bargain bin.
Tom's story makes me sad though, that's truly criminal.
Andy.
Well, my son made his appearance on the 23rd of October. He seems to like a variety of music ranging from Mozart to the Screaming Trees. The only music that he has shown an active dislike of was Kenny Rodgers on TOTP2, that's my boy! 