"Research shows that she will prefer to listen to nursery rhymes than a nondescript musical tone."

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"Research shows that she will prefer to listen to nursery rhymes than a nondescript musical tone."

according to my MN newsletter for my 9 month old.

Is this actually true?
I would rather think it depends on what music the child has been subjected to throughout pregnancy and her life so far, surely?

DD really loves the church organ - she was listening to the voluntary last night at evensong as if it was the best thing in the world ever (sorry Organist about that! )

she does like the sing-song nursery rhymes, but I'm sure she prefers the organ.

what do you think?
(I suppose I'm asking for experiences...)

:)

When DD was about 6weeks I was told that she would definitely start crying when the organ started up. Not so. She perefers the violin (I would say that, I play it) but she'd obviously been hearing organs often enough both pre- and post- birth and never minded.

I expect babies prefer to hear something interesting rather than non-descript and preferably a parent's voice singing. Doesn't have to be in tune fortunately

DS (21 mo) prefers something with a beat. Currently Eminem

I went to Glastonbury when i was 18 weeks pregnant with him and DH and I are very much into live music. I think they probably inherit a lot of their parents' musical tastes - at least initially. DS has always been soothed by music and not necessarily nursery rhymes. He now loves open air concerts and dances around like mad. The most recent was Jools Holland a few weeks back.

yes, DD was at church for the first time when she was 6 days old - she was in her car seat in the choir stalls (right under the organ) and slept through the whole service.
we had evensong that night, too, and she slept through rehearsal and the service

yes, I think you're right about inheriting musical tastes - she bops along to 80s music too - whatever we're listening or dancing to, i suppose!

I was 16 weeks pregnant when we went to Glastonbury last year and a few weeks later we went to Silverstone for the Grand Prix weekend. My ds loves music and sways and bobs along to it. When the F1 is on tv he stops what he's doing and sits glued to it. I used to listen to Adele, Elbow and Muse full blast during my pregnancy and again now listening to these bands or singing any of their songs to him calms him down instantly. Singing Adele's 'Someone Like You' to him during his colic and reflux stage was a definite winner and life saver

I know people who listen to nursery rhymes the whole time their dc are in the car. Madness! We listen to music. Mean mummy that I am, I'm not that bothered if ds (1) likes it or not. I'm sure he'll make his opinion heard one day but I'm unlikely to play insipid nursery rhyme CDs regardless.

My 9 month ds likes barry white, he loves it when I sing nursery rhymes to him but I think that is because he likes watching my face and all the actions. Maybe is means they prefer people to sing nursery rhymes to them than hum tunes? I really don't think he would prefer to listen to a nursery rhyme cd to anything else. I will not be wasting money on nursery rhyme cd's!

What's a 'nondescript musical tone' in any case? ds liked music with a very loud beat, and I recall reading that this wasn't too surprising as the womb is a very noisy place with the heart beat dominating. Iggy Pop's 'Lust for Life' was his favourite

My sister had loads of nursery rhymes tapes for the car when her children were small. It made for very painful car journeys as far as I was concerned!

Dd1 loved "Jabberwocky" at that age. Would calm her when nothing else would.
Dd2 prefered loud bouncy music-she had a fantastic time watching a panto at 2 months old.
Ds listened by choice to Classical music. He would stop absolutely still to listen if he heard it going.

my DS is 2.9 and is currently jumping down the corridor with a laundry basket on his head to songs by The Clash !!! To be fair, we also go to toddler groups so he does know and like Twinkle Twinkle and the wheels on the bus and sleeping bunnies and so on, but we listen to our music in the house, his dad's a musician so theres a lot of variety, noise, beats, guitar, piano, singing and so on in this house and I've never thought to play nursery rhymes on a CD, sounds likes torture!! he likes kids TV with music or rhythms and rhymes in, current fave is Rhyme Rocket and he does his own little mad dances to them and sings along! if classical music comes on he stops and sways and conducts, thats quite funny.

nooka - i wondered that - perhaps they were playing "modern music" which they think is rubbish

and she loves the Dinosaur songs too, from the CD by CYP.
I can't put a link to that because it's not on youtube!

they always have the wrong words on cds- they amend the words to suit themselves and they don't match what I know.