Music to Listen to When Having a Baby

FlourishAnyway believes at that place is a playlist for but almost any situation and is on a mission to unite and entertain the world through song.

Having a baby changes everything in your life. If you're a pregnant mother-to-exist or the partner or friend of 1, brand a playlist of pop, stone, land, and R&B songs to gloat the miracle of birth, babies, and the awesome task of parenthood.

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Songs Nearly Pregnancy and Babies: Expecting Keen Things

Until I became pregnant with my daughter many years ago, I had no idea how big my center could grow to conform beloved for another person. The rest of me grew pretty sizably, too, if you know what I mean. All the same, that quickly returned to normal through the magic of breastfeeding.

Growing another person is life-altering, and so is responsibly raising them from a newborn to an adult. No affair how educated and "together" you may be, the offset time yous're alone with that baby with no one else to rely upon, you'll wonder if you lot're qualified to be left in charge of such a tiny, delicate infant with and so many needs. (Yous'll be fine. Really.)

If you're pregnant or are close to someone who is, why not make a playlist to congratulate them and gloat their impending arrival? We have a long list of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs for a variety of circumstances related to pregnancy.

ane. "With Arms Wide Open" by Creed

Upon learning that he is about to have a son, the narrator of this 2000 rock ballad is awe-struck that he and his partner have created life together. Prayers and tears of joy begin to catamenia equally he imagines all of the things he will bear witness his son. The future father hopes that his kid volition be curious about the globe and greet information technology with artillery broad open up. What do you hope for your child?

ii. "I Saw God Today" by George Strait

If you have ever given birth or witnessed one, and so y'all understand this 2008 state song. After beingness with his married woman through 18 hours of labor, a new father goes to a coffee shop to take a short pause. He sees the globe differently later the birth of his baby girl, noting that the fingerprints of God are everywhere.

Returning to the hospital plant nursery, the new father marvels at the miracle that he and his wife accept been entrusted with caring for:

Got my face pressed up against the plant nursery glass
She'south sleeping like a rock
My name on her wrist, wearing tiny pink socks
She's got my nose
She's got her mama's eyes
My make new baby daughter
She'due south a miracle
I Saw God today.

iii. "A Mother's Prayer" past Celine Dion

This 2004 classical crossover song is a lyrically adjusted version of a duet that Celine Dion sang with Italian singer Andrea Bocelli. Tenderly, it describes a mother'southward earnest requests that God guide her niggling girl along her life path. The mother also asks Him to help go along the growing child condom and remind her that she is loved.

4. "Papa Don't Preach" past Madonna

In this archetype 1986 pop song, a significant, troubled teen approaches her father to inform him of her pregnancy. He had earlier warned her nearly the guy she was seeing, but at present she's meaning and has decided to proceed her baby. What she's seeking now from her father is advice, although what she receives from him is preaching and second-guessing. Someone delight step in and give her love, empathy, and adult guidance.

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5. "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder

Less than a infinitesimal old, the darling girl that Stevie Wonder is singing about in this 1976 pop vocal couldn't be more divine. As if truly knowing love for the first time, the new father is in awe of his everyday miracle.

6. "Babyfather" by Sade

A pregnant woman talks to her unborn babe in this reggae-infused 2010 pop melody. She describes to her child how she and the child'southward begetter met and how much beloved he has for the babe they accept created together:

He has the troops and extra backup continuing by
For you lot child, for you he'southward the best he tin can be
For you kid, for you he's the best he can be
Oh, child don't yous know
Your daddy dear come with a lifetime guarantee.

vii. "All-American Girl" by Carrie Underwood

Parents sometimes have a potent preference for a babe of one sexual practice or the other. In this 2007 country tune, a husband dreamed of having a son; however, his listen quickly changed when his babe girl was born:

And now he's wrapped around her finger
She's the center of his whole world
And his center belongs to that sweet, little, beautiful, wonderful, perfect
All-American girl.

The tune describes how the girl grows up to marry and have her ain kid, although her husband was so smitten by her that he preferred to have a little girl who resembled his lovely wife.

8. "Miracle" by Foo Fighters

Many years agone, when I was getting up every two hours effectually the clock to feed my newborn, I oft thought that information technology was a good thing she was cute. Those early few months were hardly the bliss I expected, no criminal offence.

This 2005 rock vocal describes what it feels like, being bleary-eyed for lack of sleep and protectively holding that precious phenomenon while "begging for sweet relief" for you both. Someone call the baby's grandma!

Hush Footling Babe, Don't Say a Word

Here was my newborn baby, many years ago. She's now taller than me and old enough to have kids of her ain, but she'll ever be my babe.

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ix. "It Takes a Homo" by Chris Young

The young, unmarried couple in this 2008 state song faces a moment of truth as they are parked in the driveway of her family's dwelling. She shares the news of her pregnancy which she has decided to keep, with or without his support.

Hoping that he'll offer words of reassurance and will decide to stay, she must feel crestfallen by his silence. All he could recollect nigh was, "any fool can make a baby, simply it takes a human to enhance a kid." Information technology looks like she's in this one lone.

10. "It Won't Be Like This for Long" by Darius Rucker

The exhausted begetter in this land song from 2008 has been kept up by his crying newborn throughout the nighttime, but he reassures his married woman that it won't be similar this for long. Every bit their daughter grows into a preschooler and later equally a teenager, she brings similar challenges, and at each point, he offers that familiar, bittersweet refrain.

eleven. "You're Gonna Exist" by Reba McEntire

In this sweetness 2005 country song, the narrator talks to her newborn baby. In awe of the responsibility she has before her, she explains how life isn't always fair and she doesn't have all the answers; however, she'll be in that location for her kid to provide unconditional love and support.

You're gonna fly with every dream yous chase
We just have to believe things piece of work out like they should
Life has no guarantees, merely always loved past me
You're gonna exist, always loved by me.

12. "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael Bublé

Okay, technically, this jazzy 2009 pop ditty is about waiting for a love relationship, but both its lyrics and spirit are appropriate for parents who are pending the arrival of their piffling one. The song describes by heartbreak and disappointments that are starting time past the optimism of anticipating the futurity meeting of the ane who will make everything worthwhile. That surely describes a new baby.

thirteen. "Three Hearts" past Alex Clare

The narrator in this 2014 rock song has found his lucky charm and the love of his life. Excited almost the baby that they have on the way, he describes how he now has money for a habitation for their growing family and looks forward to their three hearts beating together nether his roof.

14. "At that place Goes My Life" past Kenny Chesney

When the boyfriend in this 2003 country song learns most his impending fatherhood, all he can recall almost is "there goes my life." He's so young and feels ill-equipped to exist a parent. As his babe arrives and grows into a child and a young developed, however, the phrase takes on a whole new meaning. His entire world is proudly wrapped up in that unexpected girl.

15. "Small Bump" by Ed Sheeran

Stillbirths, or the death of a baby in utero subsequently 20 weeks of pregnancy, account for less than one percent of pregnancies, simply those affected by the loss are often devastated for a long time. My sister had a stillborn child about a decade ago merely still grieves the devastating loss. I've never witnessed anything sadder than her cradling Lacey, the dead infant she had only delivered.

In this 2012 popular song, a grieving father addresses his stillborn child. He imagines regretfully what his firstborn child would have looked like and describes the comfort he would have provided the babe had it been born living.

sixteen. "The Twenty-four hour period (That You Gave Me My Son)" by Babyface

The man in this R&B song from 1996 is near incoherent in his excitement most welcoming his new son to the world. He feels utterly transformed by fatherhood:

It was like falling deep in honey
I heard the angels cry above
I felt a blessing direct from God
The 24-hour interval that yous gave me a son.

Does this hateful he'll change diapers?

"Making the decision to take a child -- it is momentous. It is to make up one's mind forever to have your heart become walking around outside your body." - Elizabeth Rock, American author

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17. "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka (Featuring Odia Coates)

This classic pop duet from 1974 is probably the i that kickoff comes to mind when you lot think about pregnancy and newborn baby songs. The couple narrating the song sees the surprise pregnancy as a commemoration of their love. Equally the father-to-be compliments his partner on the cute changes that impending maternity are making to her trunk, she lets him know that she is as enthused about their infant's arrival as he is.

18. "Capri" by Colbie Callait

Cradling her growing belly, the expectant mother in this pop 2007 song protects the life that is unfolding inside. Although it will be months before she meets her sweet baby, the mother cherishes her child as an unborn angel. She eagerly anticipates the arrival of her mini-me and thinks most their shared futurity.

19. "2 Pinkish Lines" by Eric Church

Approximately one-half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this 2006 land vocal, the couple definitely didn't plan on having a babe when they started fooling around. Just out of school, they had only been dating half dozen weeks.

As the girl in this song takes the pregnancy exam and they wait together for the results, the swain thinks well-nigh how the girl's daddy volition react if the test is positive:

One means aught, and we're domicile free
Two means three and a diamond ring
Aye, wonder what faith is going to decide
Nosotros're but sitting around waiting on two pinkish lines
Sitting around waiting on two pink lines.

It turned out to be a simulated alarm, and the girl just ditched the relieved fella upon discovering she was not pregnant. Whew! Close call!

20. "To Zion" by Lauryn Hill

The expectant mother in this moving 1998 R&B song is in awe of the duty of bringing forth life into this world. She feels that she has been entrusted to acquit an affections. Although naturally torn between career and a potential family, she decides that this baby is a reflection of God'southward grace.

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, dwelling happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for." - Anonymous

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Fifty-fifty More Songs About Having a Baby

Do you know other pop, rock, country, or R&B songs about having a babe? Exit us a proposition in the Comments Section beneath!

Vocal	Artist	Twelvemonth Released
21. Danny'south Song	Loggins and Messina	1972
22. Little Pearl and Lily's Lullaby	Clint Black	2001
23. Don't Have the Girl	Tim McGraw	1993
24. Havin' a Baby	R. Kelly	2007
25. Before These Walls Were Blueish	Wade Kelly	2012
26. Anything Similar Me	Brad Paisley	2010
27. The Things We've Handed Down	Marc Cohn	1993
28. Blessed	Elton John	1995
29. All That She Wants	Ace of Base	1992
xxx. Someday I Volition Sympathise	Britney Spears	2005
31. Kooks	David Bowie	1971
32. Having My Baby	Example	1999
33. Unborn Heart	Dan Hill	1989
34. Knocked Up	Angaleena Presley	2014
35. You'll Exist in My Heart	Phil Collins	1999
36. One's on the Way	Loretta Lynn	1972
37. Darling Girl	Yolanda Adams	2001
38. Closer	Improve Than Ezra	2001
39. Bottle by My Bed	Sunny Sweeney	2017
40. Babies	David Nail	2016
41. In My Arms	Plumb	2007
42. I Got You lot	Ciara	2015
43. Pray	Day + Shay	2017
44. One Beer	HARDY (featuring Lauren Alaina & Devin Dawson)	2020
45. A New Solar day Has Come	Celine Dion	2002

Questions & Answers

Question: What song by a female vocalist has the lyrics "I tin't look to see your face" and "if you're like your daddy"?

Answer: Y'all're referring to a song from the Broadway musical, "Bright Star" from 2016. The song is called "I Tin't Await" and was performed by Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvmuWMRNcQ

Lyrics:

Oh, I can't wait to see your confront

Oooh, I can't wait to see your face up

Mmm my mmm my infant I tin can't look to see you lot

Mmm my mmm my baby I can't wait to see

Y'all're a sign from heaven

Our love was meant to be

To us you lot were given

Our love was meant to be

Mmm my mmm my baby

I can't look to see you

Mmm my mmm my infant

I can't wait to see y'all

I'm gonna make you a sweater

And dress you up so fine

And we'll e'er exist together

I'll keep your paw in mine

If you're like your daddy

Handsome, potent, and truthful

If you're like your daddy

All the girls volition be chasing you lot

Mmm my mmm my baby

I can't expect to see you

I can't wait to meet you

And shake your little hand

If yous're like your mama

You'll make me a happy human

I'm gonna make you a promise

To beloved you for all time

I'thousand gonna make you a promise

To go on your hand in mine

Mmm my mmm my baby

I tin't wait to see yous

Mmm my mmm my babe

I can't expect to see you.

Question: What song has lyrics like, "to see a newborn baby is to see the face of God"?

Reply: While those specific lyrics are non in any song, at least according to my searches, there are ii songs that come somewhat shut. First, there's Baton Ray Cyrus' song, "Confront of God" (2003) that includes the following lyrics:

When I wait at that kid so fragile and sweet

In that location'southward something eternal I see in her face up

Something much more than her female parent and me

Perhaps I'm looking at the face up of God

Makes me recall I may be looking at the face up of God

And He's smiling back at me....

Here's the link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=2Ysb6kJgV_U.

Second, at that place's as well the song, "Mary, Did You Know?" past Michael English language (1991) and covered superbly past many other artists. It includes the lyrics:

Mary, did you know your Infant Boy

Volition give sight to a bullheaded man?

Mary, did you know that your Baby Male child

Volition calm a storm with His hand?

Did y'all know that your Baby Boy

Has walked where angels trod?

When y'all've kissed your baby

Then you've kissed the confront of God?

Hither is a link to Pentatonix's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE.

Question: What song by a female person artist has the lyrics "the biggest gift I can give you" or something similar?

Answer: At that place is a song called "The Sweetest Souvenir" by Sade (2000) written from the perspective of a mother to a infant. Here are the lyrics and YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=Qj873-nVvkg

Quietly while you were comatose

The moon and I were talking

I asked that she´d always keep you protected

She promised you her light

That you then gracefully deport

You bring your light and shine like morning

Then the wind pulls the clouds across the moon

Your calorie-free fills the darkest room

And I can see the phenomenon

That keeps us from falling

She promised all the sweetest gifts

That only the heaven´south could bestow

You bring your light and shine like forenoon

And as yous so gracefully requite

Her light as long as you alive

I´ll ever remember this moment

Question: What humorous song by a male artist includes the phrase "in the natural way"?

Respond: There is a 2006 song by comedy singer/songwriter Ray Stevens chosen "We're Havin' a Baby." I would imagine that'due south information technology. https://www.youtube.com/sentinel?v=QssQXOyzE18

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FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on Baronial 21, 2020:

Tonya - The closest match I could find (other than church building music) is James Ingram'southward "A Baby's Born" (1993).

Tonya on August xix, 2020:

What song has a lyric "a infant is going to be born" or a baby has been built-in"

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on June 02, 2020:

ayan - Thanks

ayan on June 02, 2020:

Good

Lovly

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on April 03, 2020:

Peggy - Yes, information technology certain changes everything! I'm glad you enjoyed this.

Peggy Forest from Houston, Texas on April 02, 2020:

Having a baby is truly a life altering event and should exist celebrated. I can see that it has been washed many times in songs looking at the listing y'all created.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on September 21, 2019:

Ramonita - Thanks for reading.

Ramonita Rodriguez on September twenty, 2019:

My prayers your way

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on September 06, 2018:

Ann - Congratulations on becoming a grandma once again! That little grandson volition be really prized by those older sisters!

Ann Carr from SW England on September 06, 2018:

Some other smashing list. Yeah, they are always our babies, aren't they? I think I worry more near mine now than I did when they were younger! My youngest daughter is near to have her 4th - and information technology's a boy for iii sisters!

Ann

FlourishAnyway (writer) from United states of america on September 02, 2018:

Catherine - Cheers so much. I appreciate your stopping by! Hope you have a terrific weekend. Been thinking almost you. It's good to see you. Promise y'all are doing well.

Catherine Giordano from Orlando Florida on September 01, 2018:

I love these songs, but I love your commentary even more. Babies are a phenomenon, and I don't call besides many things a miracle

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on August fourteen, 2018:

Jo - All in due time, I suppose! Thanks for reading. Accept a great calendar week!

Suhail Zubaid aka Clark Kent from Mississauga, ON on Baronial 13, 2018:

Hullo Flourish,

Yous got it right on that one hahaha.

Regards,

Suhail

Jo Miller from Tennessee on Baronial 13, 2018:

Okay. I'thousand ready for another baby in our family now. My daughters aren't cooperating however.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on Baronial 13, 2018:

Suhail - Congratulations on your grandchild. Yous and I are about the same historic period, and I can't imagine how exhausted you must exist. I wish you and your expanding family the very all-time.

Suhail Zubaid aka Clark Kent from Mississauga, ON on August 12, 2018:

I was not expecting a heavy metal band to appear in your list, just and so Foo Fighters are there and that Madonna song was a hit in mid-80s.

After becoming a grandfather at historic period 47, I have become very decorated. It appears that I am raining a baby once again. Due to this, task, and hiking and photography with K2, I hardly discover time for hubpages. But when I do, I really like several hubs that are published and yours are always i of them.

I will definitely listen to a few of the songs in this list on youtube.

Regards,

Suhail

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on Baronial 12, 2018:

Dora - Thank you for your comment. I bet yous're an incredible parent and grandparent.

Dora Weithers from The Caribbean on August 12, 2018:

I tin can chronicle to all these lyrics, showing how the baby brings the best out of their parents. What a blessing they are! Cheers for this listing.

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on Baronial 11, 2018:

Genna - Spoken like someone who knows! Thanks for your annotate, kind lady. Take a not bad weekend.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from Us on August 11, 2018:

Chris - Thank you for your kind annotate. Best of luck to your friend and her new baby!

Genna East from Massachusetts, USA on August 11, 2018:

The moment our child is born, life as we know it changes forever. The gift of life; so much of this music celebrates this extraordinary phenomenon and feeling that is like no other. Cheers!

Krzysztof Willman from Parlin, New Jersey on August 11, 2018:

Lovely list, a friend of mine just had a baby and I'yard sure she would've appreciated hearing these songs during her pregnancy or even now.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on August 11, 2018:

Heidi - Thank you for the suggestion. I'm not sure if it was released every bit a single or not?

FlourishAnyway (author) from Us on August 11, 2018:

Liz - I appreciate your kind annotate. Have a wonderful weekend!

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on August xi, 2018:

Linda - Thank you for your kind comment and concern about my sister'southward lamentable situation. Have a good weekend.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on August 11, 2018:

Give thanks you, dear Audrey, for your kind compliment. I'm taking my infant to college in just a few days!

Liz Westwood from United kingdom on August 10, 2018:

Definitely a life irresolute feel. You accept done well to compile this comprehensive list.

Linda Crampton from British Columbia, Canada on August ten, 2018:

A baby is a lovely and very inspiring topic for a song. Your girl was definitely a cute baby, Flourish. I'k sorry most your sis's experience.

Audrey Hunt from Pahrump NV on August 10, 2018:

A perfect collection of videos to compliment this touching hub. I enjoyed watching each i as I read through your piece. Babies are to be cherished and nurtured with unconditional love. I'll bet you were one beautiful baby daughter!

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on August 10, 2018:

Mary - Cheers for your sugariness comment. They are cute trivial things, probably the cutest when they are sleeping, I call up. Have a good weekend.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on August x, 2018:

Bill - Cheers for coming by. I figured you lot'd get that one. Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend and information technology's not too hot where you are.

Heidi Thorne from Chicago Area on August x, 2018:

Oh, babe! :)

My just add would be from "I Love Lucy," where Desi Arnaz sang, "We're having a baby, my baby and me..."

Happy Weekend!

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on August 10, 2018:

Clive - Now you have me laughing.

Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on August 10, 2018:

Babies are miracles and these songs express the love that parents accept for their babies. You are correct that you understand how much your heart can grow when you carry a child. Such a beautiful experience. Nothing can speak more of honey.

Bill Kingdom of the netherlands from Olympia, WA on August x, 2018:

Oddly, I could only recall of the Anka song. Total blank on this until I saw your list and so it was like OH DUH!

Clive Williams from Jamaica on August x, 2018:

Not really...sometimes you have to work very hard and put your back into it.....wink!

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on August 09, 2018:

Clive, Be careful what you ask for. Making 1 is the easiest office of the entire experience.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on August 09, 2018:

Linda - What a sweet comment. Daughters are such a wonderful gift. I but accept i, but I totally concord with yous.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on Baronial 09, 2018:

Shannon Henry - Thank y'all for stopping by. I'm so glad you enjoyed the playlist. Accept a wonderful weekend.

Clive Williams from Jamaica on August 09, 2018:

Now I feel similar become making one

Linda Lum from Washington State, USA on August 09, 2018:

Flourish, I was doubly blessed, giving birth to two cute daughters. I've made a few mistakes in my life, but bringing those girls (who are now amazing women) into this world is the one matter I've washed correct--twice. Listening to these songs brings back all of those feelings.

Certain, in that location were backaches and more than a few sleepless nights, but I'd practise it all again. Give thanks y'all for a sweet article that brings dorsum and then many wonderful memories.

Shannon Henry from Texas on August 09, 2018:

Aw, I absolutely adore this playlist of yours. Songs about children and babies touch my heart.

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