What non-lullaby songs do you sing to put baby to sleep?

Each time any of my kids were born, I spent way too much time in those sleep-deprived early months racking my brains for bedtime books or songs to sing to soothe them to sleep. Because, did you know that Rock A Bye Baby will only get you, like, 20 seconds of singing time? And it took me way, waaaaay longer than 20 seconds to get each of those babies to sleep!

I usually ended up settling into a rotation of some of my favorite Disney songs, with a few random ballads or soothing church songs thrown into the mix. What non-lullaby songs did you sing at bedtime to help your babies fall asleep?

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  • 09/18/2020

    You are so beautiful - Joe Cocker

  • 09/15/2020

    Edelweiss (The Sound of Music)

  • Everything will be alright bob marley, you are my sunshine,

  • True Colors

  • 09/09/2020

    Swing Low Sweet Chariot

  • Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary

  • 09/05/2020

    Amazing Grace

  • Moana

  • 09/08/2020

    Beauty and the Beast

  • 09/05/2020

    Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond

  • 06/08/2023

    Stay Awake from Mary Poppins

  • Blackbird by The Beatles

  • 09/28/2020

    Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver

  • The Water is Wide

  • 09/28/2020

    I See the Light from Tangled

  • The all time favorite all of my kids like to hear sang is The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

  • Right Field by Peter Yarbrough

  • The Luckiest by Ben Folds

  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot