Is any kind of music ok for childbirth??? Or does it have to be appropriate?

[mosschops30]

Am going to do a CD for labour as the hospital said we can bring something in if we like.
When I had ds I took in a cd called 'A Time For Peace' which my massage lady gave to me, and is something I use to relax to when having a treatment. (BTW it never came out of the labour bag)

However I LOVE the Killers, its the one thing I can really get lost in/sing along with etc etc and I wanted to do a CD full of my fave Killer's tracks.

Do you think thats innappropriate? Should it be something peaceful and relaxing, or just something you enjoy?

[4andnotout]

I took a bag of cd's including black sabbath and me and mum were singing along right up until the end! Having music I loved kept me relaxed and calm

[puffylovett]

Go with the Killers.

I'm having Elbow and Kings of Leon with a but of Muse thrown in

[mosschops30]

Thanks for that 4 . I just feel like I should be listening to whale music or something (although had no music for first 2) not singing 'i got soul but Im not a soldier' through the gas and air mask

[5inthebed]

I wouldn't recommend Johnny Cash "Ring of Fire"

I've only ever had the radio on during labour/c-sections so can't really recommend anything. I'd go with music that you enjoy though.

[tummytickler]

My dd was born to PJ Harvey - the shouty bits were fantastic for pushing to . My midwife said it was nice to have something that was not whale music .
Other dc's have been born to mixes of Stones, GreenDay, Pearl Jam, Django Rheinhardt and more - never had a complaint!

[puffylovett]

5inthebed - my DP keeps joking that he's going to rig up a hiddne stereo system in our kitchen for our planned home waterbirth, and as soon as I'm crowning he's going to hit the button and play 'Ring of Fire'

It's got the point now, where even my 2.5 yr olkd DS knows the words as we're singing it that often

[5inthebed]

lol. Could be worse, he could be singing "sex on fire" by Kings of Leon like my 6 year old has been all week.

[smallone]

A bit of everything I think, I've got everything from air to aerosmith. Its good to have some relaxing stuff, and music that makes you smile or means something to you and then you need something upbeat for when you're on a mission! MWs said we had the best music on the delivery suite last time!

[puffylovett]

that's one of my faves, I had planned to listen to that. Just realised the irony !

[ILikeToQuickstepItTangoIt]

Just make sure you don't have songs that pump you up and release adrenaline. Adrenaline in labour is your enemy.

[alypaly]

theres a fire down below...Bob seger

[4andnotout]

'sex on fire' became my newbie breastfeeding anthem when dd4 was little, even the kids would sing 'woah my breasts are on fire'

[dreamylady]

wow do people here actually know the words to kings of leon songs? we love 'em but we can't make the words out so have to make up our own!!!

sa-aaaaalty-y beef
stay-ay with mee......

[Grisette]

I was going to have sigur ros but in the end had radio 4.

[ShrimpOnTheBarbie]

DH did me an ipod mix of general music i liked. I vaguely remember quite a lot of Michael Buble (sp?). Good to have some shouty fun songs to get through the hard bits - like when you're running up a hill!

[Honeymoonmummy]

What about Torn by Natalie Imbruglia?

Have whatever you like. I listened to my ipod for the first half of the labour and found Norah Jones the best but I also listened to some fast ones.

[smallone]

I might also add that we took about 8 cds last time and labour was so long that we got a bit fed up of them by the end.

[CatIsSleepy]

i think mellow is good
have posted this before but when i was in labour with dd2 , we had the beta band 3 EPs playing.... and when she was actually being born 'push it out' was the track being played


i didn't actually really realise at the time-dh told me later

[Laugs]

I agree to have whatever you like, but last time my playlist was pretty much the music I'd want to listen to on a night out (indie/ alternative stuff) and like ILikeToQuickstepItTangoIt said, I'm not sure if it was really helpful having stuff that got my adrenaline going (there was plenty of that anyway). This time, I'm going to try and choose songs that I like, but mellow, gentle ones. Still no whale song.

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

God no, not inappropriate at all, killers would be ace, as would KoL, that kind of thing (adds to my own list).

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

But I had for my own first labour/birth - jack johnson, indigo girls, cowboy junkies, 10,000 maniacs/natalie merchant.

[ByThePowerOfGreyskull]

one of the songs I had on our CD was breathe by the prodigy

[puffylovett]

indigo girls.. not listened to them for a long time. Love their Romeo and Juliet

[Flower3545]

My god this thread just whisked me back in time to 1983

Picture the scene if you will:

I had been in hospital for 5 weeks for god awful morning/all day sickness and had not gained an oz the entire pregnancy in fact I'd actually lost weight.

I was due to be induced the following morning and Dh was coming to the birth for 9am, however at 11.30pm I begin labour and am taken to the delivery suite. There is no point ringing Dh because by the time he gets someone to stay with the Dc's and gets here it will probably be too late.

Cue a very nice nurse coming in and telling me they are very, very busy and "well dear, it's not your first, you know the drill, yell if you need us. Oh and to keep you company here's a cassette player"

The damn thing somehow got stuck playing one song over and over again. I couldn't reach it to turn it off and yelling my head off brought zilch response.

The song?

"Can't get no satisfaction" The rolling stones became my least favourite group in the world and to this day I can't listen to the record without shuddering