labour playlist?

[naomiclarke1987]

anyone make an ipod/mp3 player playlist for their labour? not sure how interested i would actually be in listening to it at the time, but i thought maybe it might be a nice idea to have some music to focus on.

any experiences with/ideas? x

My delivery room had a radio/CD player so I just tuned it in my local radio station which I knew played pretty mellow stuff in the middle of the night (learned from being up nearly all night during late pregnancy)

All was good until Salt and Pepa's "Push It" came on minutes before I started to push. And DH sang it. As he already had been threatening to do throughout my pregnancy. Twat.

Personally, an IPod or similar would piss me off in labour (moreso than my DH? ) but I am not a fan of them anyway. It is nice to have some background music/radio voices in the background though.

I made a cd of my favourite songs. Devoted hours to it. When it came to it, I couldn't listen to more than a song and needed silence.

I had my ipod ready with great music from stereophonics, snow patrol,paolo nutini, roy orbison, for early labour etc, loud and fast music such as green day and pendulum for the pushing stage - hahaha I had buzzing in my ears the whole time from the adrenaline etc, I couldnt understand the midwife, let alone concentrate on outside sounds, I was relying on DH to tell me anything important. I had no obvious early labour to speak of though, 6 hours start to finish. Dont think the ipod made it out of the car...

I can't do anything without listening to music so I'm planning on making a playlist (if nothing else it will give me something to do when going overdue).

I'll be very upset if I don't feel like listening to it...

My last midwife said 'anything except bloody Enya'. She'd delivered a woman who insisted that her baby should be born to the strains of a particular Enya song and apparently it had been on repeat for about an hour and a half before baby actually arrived. The mother and baby were both completely oblivious but the midwife could cheerfully have swung for Enya by that point.

I've just finished getting a play list for dh to put on his ipad- am having an elcs this time, but still doubt I will listen to it!
Tried to do one last time ,and broke the ipod the night before. Ended up having an EMCS anyway. Think the radio was on when i had ds (it was Christmas- i remember hearing Wham!).

We had fun trying to think of appropriate/inappropriate songs- 'The first cut is the deepest' was my favourite suggestion! You might not listen to it- but they are fun to do.

(And i gave my list the title 'too short to shove', which is the reason for the elcs this time- big baby, 4ft 8 mother with spd).