In the time spent waiting for a sonogram appointment, expectant parents at Jacobi Medical Center did something that blew their minds: they wrote their unborn baby a lullaby. The experience is given to ...

Mary Cassatt’s 1891 "Mother’s Kiss" shows a loving parent’s touch. Lullabies also soothe, hands-free.Credit: Granger, NYC We are at our cutest as infants. We’re most helpless then, too. But every ...

Four millennia ago an ancient Babylonian wrote down a lullaby sung by a mother to her child. It may have got the baby to sleep, but its message is far from soothing - and this remains a feature of ...

I loved singing lullabies to my daughter. As a musical theater geek who suddenly had a captive audience (one that was physically incapable of walking out on me), how could I not? At nap time, bed time ...

In cultures around the world, the songs that coax kids to sleep are windows into parents’ hopes, fears, and dreams for the future. living-lullabies-17Altanzul Sukhchuluun and her daughter, Khulan, ...

We think of lullabies as a sweet way of easing children into sleep. But the power of a lullaby can go further — to comfort, and to heal, even under the most difficult circumstances. Sponsor Message ...

It's one of the most universal forms of music - the lullaby. Mothers and fathers around the world, in every different language - sooth their babies with gentle songs. Kevin Roth is a musician and ...

It's after dinner. We've cleaned up the dishes and our youngest daughter is already asleep. My spouse has brewed tea and is queuing up something for the grown-ups to watch. Standing (or rather lying) ...