Music for Baby.

I really love the Celine Dion "Miracle" album -"My Precious One" is my all time favorite. I made a layout for both my boys with all the lullabies that I used to sing to them (hymns, Disney, folk songs, etc and included the CD on the layout and pictures of me rocking them. Enjoy this time - it is the absolute best!!!!

Thank you for the playlist, Ali. The first grandbaby and I danced many many times to Diana Krall's "The Look of Love"...

My kids loved Celine Dion - Miracle. That whole CD is the one she wrote for her darling baby. It is so soothing and relaxing.

Two I love to play my daugher - she is almost six months old now:
Feels like home - Chantal Kreviazuk
Make you feel my Love - Adele
Both the words and the melody are beautiful

what wonderful songs... i would only add " free falling" covered by John Mayer.... It is so soothing... :D

At our house we love Kenny Loggins Return to Pooh Corner and More Songs from Pooh Corner.

Thanks for the tip that John Mayer has a version of Free Fallin. Love that.

Hi Ali, I worked in a music school for over 20 years before retiring and some projects/research there were done on music for babies. (They even developed a pacifier for preemies that would play music (lullabies) when the baby sucked. As you probably know, learning to suck is a developmental skill that many preemies have not yet developed.) Those experts believed that all music for babies (for sleep especially) should be instrumental, no vocals....that the vocals were not as relaxing and were too stimulating. I love the CD called Night Tracks which is a compliation of the slow movements of many classical compositions. Beautiful!
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Tracks-Erkki-Rautio/dp/B000000SAH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238448373&sr=1-1
Hope you're feeling well and stronger each day.

Ali--I don't have an iPod but wish I did! Anyway, the CD that plays over and over for us in the car is Nicolette Larson's Sleep, Baby, Sleep. A friend introduced it to me after I had Baby #2. It is still a favorite of all my kids, and it is what calms Baby #5 without fail when he gets fussy in the car. Thanks for all of your song ideas.

My Cherie Amour

the most wonderful album of lullabyes is by The Innocence Mission, it's called "Now the Day is Over." I think you'd really love it. all of their music is great for kids, but this one is especially pleasant.
thanks for all the other recommendations, too! I have a ten week old and I've been doing the same thing--compiling a playlist for an ipod to keep in his room.

I loved playing Kenny Loggins' Return to Pooh Corner for DS when he was little. He's a teenager now, and I still know all the lyrics to the title song!
Thanks for brining back such sweet memories.
Rinda

Yay! So glad you liked R&J!
Also happy to see Elizabeth Mitchell's You are My Sunshine...I rarely buy actual cds anymore but had to have that one because I loved the cover art:-)
Our baby favorites:
Oooh Child by the Five Stairsteps
These are the Days by 10,000 Maniacs
Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlin
Water is Wide (Indigo Girl with SL)
When You Dream by Bare Naked Ladies (also love their "who needs sleep" for comic relief)
Come On Get Happy by the Patridge Family (my big boys love this too;-)
Tell Me Why (lots of version but I really like Pat Benatars from "For the Children" benefit cd)
I See the Moon --Greg Brown (actually song by his daughters)

I have gifted Sara Grove's CD Station Wagon more times that I can count. Unfortunately it isn't available on iTunes, but she does have it available for sale on her Web site, which includes the lyrics and sound bites from each song.

If you need new songs for a Simon playlist, here's a list of my seven year old's favorites:
http://inthecommonhours.typepad.com/in_the_common_hours/2008/09/playing-catch-up.html
I still love the Monkee's theme song;-)

I love that you have Renee&Jeremy in there! Check out Frances England too...she makes me happy!

How did you get the horizontal navigation at the top of your blog? I've been wondering how to do this in Typepad for a long time. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!!

looking at your list, i bet you would love Ray LaMontagne. Lots of soft beautiful melodies - mostly love songs. We have three of his albums and my girls and I dance to it - even the really slow ones. Also, Glen Hansard and Marketa (i don't remember how to spell her last name) from the "Once" soundtrack is beautiful soothing music with piano and guitar. They also have an album called "swell season" that's incredible. enjoy that baby girl!!

Thanks for sharing the music and the layout idea. You gotta love any collection that includes Dave Matthews =). And my husband loves Daughters by John Mayer. We have two little girls--I see a daddy-daughter wedding song in our way distant future (they are only 1 & 4). You might also enjoy Mockingbird with Carly Simon and James Taylor. Thanks again.

I LOVE Eva Cassidy.She gave the world beautiful music. I am loving Adele's cd right now. And the Dana Owens album (Queen Latifah) is good smooth jazz.