Labor playlist?

[HappyMamaBeth]

Anyone want to share theirs?  I don't have one... but I'd like to have one!  So I'd love to see what others have put together and maybe I'll be adding some tunes to my iPhone. :)

[gothesshalja]

i have some arvo part like spiegel im spiegel on mine...i also have some whales singing songs from youtube on it...

i never played music in my last 3 labors...i completely forgot for some reason so i have no idea if i will even use my playlist. 

i also have assemblage 23 "lullaby" which is a sweet song that i have good associations with... 

[averlee]

I'm hoping to use music for this labor, I never even thought about it last time.  I'm trying to put together about 4 hours of music. It includes a lot of music I've liked from different eras in my life and all female vocalists. I'm still looking for suggestions too!

Baby Baby, Amy Grant

Hit, Sugarcubes

Vision of Love, Mariah Carey

By Your Side, Sade

With You, Jessica Simpson

Didn't cha Know, Erykah Badu

Brown Skin, India Arie

This House is on Fire, Natalie Merchant

Venus as a Boy, Bjork

No Ordinary Love, Sade

Down By The Water, PJ Harvey

Put Your Hands on Me, Joss Stone

She Wolf, Shakira

Summertime, Janis Joplin

Justify My Love, Madonna

Fever, Peggy Lee

Blackbird, Sarah McLaughlan

I'm Going Down, Mary J Blige

She's My Baby, Mazzy Star

Soldier of Love, Sade

Slow Hand, Pointer Sisters

Everything, Mary J Blige

Nature is Ancient, Bjork

You're Making Me High, Toni Braxton

Babyfather, Sade

Giving Him Something (he can feel), En Vogue

Cold Cold Night, White Stripes

Turn Off The Light, Nelly Furtado

The Truth, India Arie

Thank You, Dido

I Go Humble, Bjork

and just for fun...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmD3pLAzn3E&feature=feedlik

[Virginia884]

We had discussed music so much before this baby came. When it came right down to it I could have cared less. DH put on Iron & Wine (we seriously have hours and hours and hours of this one artist/band) and we listened to that the whole time! Lovely music for labor, if you ask me.

[Vegan Princess]

I made a long playlist. I listened to it while I labored at home and then had it on while I gave birth at the birth center. I didn't notice it while giving birth. But my midwife's assistant took note of which song was playing when she came out and I am so glad. She was born while my favorite artist was playing (warren haynes - to his cover of the song "one" by U2 - a great song to be born to, I think). I just wanted to say though, we listened to that playlist a lot when she was brand new and we were at home (they were mostly mellow songs) - at first it made me cry bc it was so filled with the beautiful emotions. Certain songs still make me think of parts of my early labor. I am so happy to have the playlist still! I would tell you artists but I made like a 10 hour playlist. We only got through the first bit. I had a fairly short labor and the thing got started over when we moved to the birth center. But I had planned for a long labor. LOL.

Cindy

[MamaofLiam]

we listened to marissa nadler and mariee sioux (folk type music)... over and over and over again. it was really just background, but very appropriate and i think i will do something along the same lines next time around.

[Smokering]

With DD I didn't have music - honestly, it was the furthest thing from my mind. With this baby we'll take the mp3 player along for the sake of my Hypnobabies tracks (which I may or may not listen to during labour). I think I'd like to have some extra tracks to listen to just in case, but I won't be surprised at all if I don't feel like listening to them.

Songs I might like:

Nella Fantasia, sung by Amici - one of my favourite songs, and we had a variation of it at our wedding. It's sort of grand and uplifting, and will either inspire me to plateaus of otherwordly bliss, or irritate the heck out of me. :p

Across the Stars - a rather lovely instrumental piece by John Williams from (I regret to say) Attack of the Clones.

The Star Trek: Voyager theme by Jerry Goldsmith

Now and For Always from the Lord of the Rings musical. I don't know that it's strictly "relevant" to birth, but I really love the song...

The Burning Bush from the soundtrack to The Prince of Egypt. Hans Zimmer, I think. Another amazingly beautiful otherworldly piece.

Seasons of Love from Rent - again, just 'cause I love it.

Maybe a bit of Howard Shore, from The Lord of the Rings movies? The Breaking of the Fellowship is gorgeous, although kinda melancholy; ditto The Grey Havens.

Journey Medley from season one of Glee (if I can figure out how to get it onto an mp3 player).

You Raise Me Up... cheesy, I know. :p

[tourist.]

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Originally Posted by Smokering 

Maybe a bit of Howard Shore, from The Lord of the Rings movies? The Breaking of the Fellowship is gorgeous, although kinda melancholy; ditto The Grey Havens.

Oooh, if you figure this one out you should totally post the songs that you chose.  I keep thinking about adding songs from LotR but don't know where to begin, and so much of the music sounds so sad.

[Mal85]

I as at my good friend's homebirth last summer and she had a playlist going the whole time. Everytime these three songs came on it was always just the perfect mood.

Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0DKOGco_o

The Three of Us by Ben Harper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMzXYbi0RmA

Embryonic Journey by Jefferson Airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMkXGKmgjeY

I was there as her photographer and I used those three songs when I put together her slide show, they were perfect. I also used this song, which wasn't on her playlist, but would be great for one.

Wonder by The Decemberists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oT_UHGgUAA

[bignerpie]

Mal85, I never thought about Embryonic Journey... That is so going on my playlist right now!

[stellabluz]

Jorma Kaukonen (of Jefferson Airplane) also has a whole cd called "embryonic journey" that is devoted entirely to the song and they space out instrumentally on it for an hour or more~we had a whole lotta that on our playlist.

I am a big phan of music in labor and birth. Our first daughter was born completely to her song. All cosmically or coincidentally. We had made 6 cds for the birth and did not know if she was a girl or a boy. The song we were planning on naming her after, came on during the last pushes and finished as she lay there with me. Ahhh, love those moments in life. Music always amplifies them~

[kawa kamuri]

Originally Posted by Virginia884 

DH put on Iron & Wine (we seriously have hours and hours and hours of this one artist/band) and we listened to that the whole time! Lovely music for labor, if you ask me.

Absolutely. 

"Mother remember the blink of an eye when I breathed through your body?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh09MuIfIU&feature=related

[jessica_lizette]

I am so pregnant. I am sitting here listening to the music you ladies suggested and I'm bawling. :)