what songs make you think of your babies/children

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mine
sweet little baby girl
my little girl -tim mcgraw
someone exactley like you -van morrison
chasing cars- snow patrol

I'm sticking with you - Velvet Underground

DP sings Isn't She Lovely to DD. Great soppy bugger.

Brown-eyed Girl - Van Morrison

Take good care of my baby (dont know who sang that)

little star - Madonna

Wires by Athelete and Beautiful Day by U2 always make me think of ds1. I don't have any in particular for the other two!

DS1 - Surry with the fringe on top from Oaklahoma ( I went through a whole 50's showtunes thing during that pregnancy. NO IDEA why ! )

DS2 "The Drugs don't work" and that whole album

DD "you are my sunshine" and "This love" by Maroon 5 because she used to sing it when she was tiny.
And now the Arctic Monkies version of Girls aloud Love Machine because she sings it with their accent !

oh and for me it's Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars (If I Lay Here).

I'm welling up reading this thread.....

heres little star by Madonna, lovely song abut her dd

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window makes me feel sick. It was on a tape (yes tape!^) that I used to play DD to distract enough to eat (she was a sod!) when she under a year old. I was a few weeks pg at the time and suffering from all-day-nausea.. and that gloop she ate used to threaten to take my stomach out for good!

When I hear that song it brings it all back... (no pun intended! )

On a nicer note, Brown Eyed Girl remind me of DS1 (now 15) as a baby.. as I used to sing it as Brown Eyed Boy and dance round room with him

cant get you out of my head lalalalalalalalalalalala

you are my sunshine

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James Taylor "Something in the way she moves". Makes me cry thinking about it! And for first little one who didn't make it it's Coldplay "fix you" simply for the bit about losing something you cannot replace...

Catch the Sun - the Doves
I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
and bizarrely, like MerryAnnSinglemas - I'm Sticking with You by the Velvets (we used to sing it to dd all the time when she was a toddler)

'You are my sunshine' here too; and Aerosmith 'Don't want to miss a thing'.

Is it any wonder? Keane. Was on the radio loads the week DS was born and DH was driving back and forth to the hospital.

Take good care of my baby
Daisy daisy daisy
Ruby Tuesday
Flowers In The window - by Travis - it used to play over the radio when I stacked shelves in asda when pregnant with dd1 - all the lyrics make me well up,plus the video was full of pregnant women ! I love the bit, 'you are one in a million and I love you so, lets watch the flowers grow '

DS born to the sound of Billy Joel's River of Dreams, so that's 'his' song now.

aerosmith dont wanna miss a thing

Babylon by David Gray for DS.

Don t Give Up by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel for DD.

These are the two songs playing in the Theatre when I had my C Sections.

Hips Don't Lie - Shakira - DS loves to dance to it

Into the Mystic - Van Morrison - playing when she was born

Moon River
You are my sunshine
St Judy's comet - Paul Simon

all of these are her lullabies (except I can't get through You Are My Sunshine without crying)

Shine-Take That...Both DSs love it and i often catch them singing it

I made a mixtape when I was PG and had hopeful visions of DS arriving to Patti Smith's Till Victory - which didn;t happen, mix tape got forgotten about in the transition from labour ward to delivery room. And he'd probably have come out to Pretty LIke Drugs by Queen Adreena anyway (I insisted my mixtape be full of shrieking-woman songs along with songs I associated with friends etc). But the song I associate with his newborn days the most is Vertigo by U2 because it seemed to be forever on MTV at the time - 'Hello hello, in a place called vertigo, you give me something that I didn't know and you give me something to believe...' which sort of sums up those mad dislocated weeks of dealing with a newborn.

Oh, I also used to sing Hey Little Apple Blossom (by the White Stripes) to him and Sand (Nancy SInatra/Lee Hazlewood). Now he has total control of the CD player (aged 3) and is currently obsessed with Alright Alright Alright by Mungo Jerry. For which I blame his father.