Lullabies

brit1983

Ok, I need some lullaby suggestions. I have sang "You Are My Sunshine" to DS1 before bedtime since he was born. I need a different one for DS2.

What do you sing to your little ones?

monicaP

I changed the words from "yo te amo" to "Julianna" I also like Twinkle Twinkle and Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boymton.

LittlemsD

I have a summer camp version of Amazing Grace we love and Carry on my wayward son by Kansas (my aunt used to sing it to us as kids and it kind of stuck, we slow it down a lot)

AndieTessie

I usually just make up a random song about baby set to the tune of lullabys. I can only sing you are my sunshine so many times!

sdheft619

I sing her twinkle twinkle

beansideirae

I sing a lot of random stuff, lol. I like the traditional "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes". I also sing a lot of Cat Stevens maybe because that's what I remember my dad singing to me when I was little.

izzybella3

We sing "Moon Moon Moon" by Laurie Berkner Band a lot.

TeacherMom210

I use "Feed the Birds" and "Stay Awake" from Mary Poppins and have also used "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof. I also use a short one my mom made up for my sister and me when we were little. DD#1 sang it back to me the other night. It was so sweet.

meggipi5

I sang Baby Beluga, You are My Sunshine, and Jesus Loves Me all the time to DD1. DH sings her Blackbird, by the Beatles. 

I'm doing a lot of Twinkle, Twinkle and Hush Little Baby now, and whatever is in my head. I love singing Christmas songs (when they are in season), too.

booksandcleverness81

I sing him Edelweiss, Baby Mine from Dumbo, Bright by Echosmith, goodnight my angel by Billy Joel, and my DH plays him the piano which he really loves!

theglitteredpterodactyl

The first night I panicked and the only song i could think of that I knew the whole way through was Les Mis' castle on a cloud, so that kind of stuck. My partner has been playing Tenacious D's lullaby for her since the 1st tri. Also Bowie's Starman & Ziggy Stardust (her nn is Ziggy)

Mostly though I spend the whole day singing my own mutated version of jazz to her, lol. Lots of "boo be doo baba pah doo do bow deedoo da" type of thing, sung at whatever tempo she's moving at.

MiromiM

I like to sing Baby Beluga but I change the lyrics to make them scientifically correct (HS science teacher here who also in her youth worked for Sea World). So it's a "grey" whale because baby beluga's are grey although adult ones are white. He squirts water out of his "mouth", and the water's "cold".

I also like 'Rainbow Connection' from the Muppet's Movie.

Other than that, I choose any old song and sing it low and slow.

brit1983

Love all these suggestions! I had forgotten about so many of them!

ForeverEverAfter

I mostly do 'Hush and bide' and 'Twinkle Twinkle'. When DD1 went through a rough phase I sang every song I knew (lots of choir pieces in random languages). She loved gospel music Now at 2.5 she sings 'Soft Kitty' to the new baby. I never taught it to her-I just watch way too much Big Bang Theory apparently...

LittlemsD

theglitteredpterodactyl said:

The first night I panicked and the only song i could think of that I knew the whole way through was Les Mis' castle on a cloud, so that kind of stuck. My partner has been playing Tenacious D's lullaby for her since the 1st tri. Also Bowie's Starman & Ziggy Stardust (her nn is Ziggy)

Mostly though I spend the whole day singing my own mutated version of jazz to her, lol. Lots of "boo be doo baba pah doo do bow deedoo da" type of thing, sung at whatever tempo she's moving at.

Haha my little guy is very hairy and we sing him bits of the Baby sass song

St3ph4ni3

Soft kitty
Warm kitty
Little ball of fur
Happy kitty
Sleepy kitty
Pur pur pur

bumptink

I sing old hymns to our LO! Classics that I grew up on and pray that he also learns to love one day!

callistosmile

I just sing along to whatever I'm in the mood to listen to. At night we've gotten good results with Aerosmiths Don't Want To Miss A Thing we don't do traditional lullabies.

JenLovesDesign

Hush little baby mostly for me. I'm living the idea of singing less traditional songs though..

imsoexcited915

I love the rockabye lullabies and pandora station

jessbruxanovaa

I second the rockabye baby lullaby renditions. We love those! Especially the Fleetwood Mac ones. I sing along to the songs.

MW5280

I end up singing a lot of songs from college - I went to a women's college. However, I'm learning that not all will be appropriate to continue singing as LO gets older... Things you don't think about until you have kids.

sherbear82

My favourites are "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" from Sesame Street and "Homeward Bound" by Marta Keen.

kkerner87

Our faves are:

- "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty (this song makes me cry when i sing it to her, lol)

- "Dear Prudence" by The Beatles

- "My Life" by The Beatles

I also make up totally random songs about anything and everything. 

cmlsu

I sing Dear Prudence too! But I change it to Dear Pippa. I sang it to her in the womb and it was the first song I played for her in the hospital.

jene10e

St3ph4ni3 said:

Soft kitty
Warm kitty
Little ball of fur
Happy kitty
Sleepy kitty
Pur pur pur

Replace kitty with baby. Even though our babies aren't furry nor do they purr, it would sound so cute! I love Big Bang Theory! >^..^<

kkerner87

We're getting a birth pillow made for her (name, birth date, weight, birth place....) and we're putting the quote "The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you" printed on it!