You remember how it is with your first pregnancy, when you actually buy the pregnancy magazines, and hang out on the message boards at iVillage comparing each twitch and twang with 600 other pregnant mothers due in the same month as you, and you spend months agonizing over the nursery decorating scheme and hours browsing baby gear at Babys R Us and have the baby’s whole wardrobe picked out and washed and folded and carefully placed in drawers when you’re still only six months along? <\/p>\n
*snicker* Ah, I remember those days… barely!<\/p>\n
Ahem, anyway, back when I was still all dewey-eyed with the idea of being pregnant with Tristan, I invested hours searching the Internet and local record stores for a copy of one of my all-time favourite soundtrack albums, She’s Having a Baby<\/a>. Way before I had kids, I loved <\/em>that album, and practically wore out my cassette copy in the early 1990s – and not entirely because I’ve always had a wicked crush on Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n Alas, despite a stellar effort, I couldn’t find a replacement copy when I was pregnant with Tristan. Well, there was one copy on eBay for about $60 including currency conversion and delivery and duty, but that was a bit much even for me. But the other day, I was downloading some music from iTunes and out of the blue wondered if I could get some of my favourite songs from the album on iTunes. Turns out I couldn’t (maybe you’ll have more luck on the American version, but iTunes.ca is still occassionally disappointing in its limited selection.) I did, however, find out that the album was re-released in 2003, and I used one of my MotherTalk Amazon.com gift certificates to order one. It arrived on the weekend, and I love it all over again.<\/p>\n But it got me thinking – aside from the ubiquitous country and western songs, there aren’t really a whole lot of pregnancy songs out there, are there? My favourite of all time, which I listened to about a million times when I was pregnant with Tristan, is Danny’s Song (the Kenny Loggins version, thanks), and of course there is Creed’s Arms Wide Open, which came out the year I had my first miscarriage and made me cry gallons of tears over the hormonal years, and Nancy White’s hilarious folk song, It’s Chic to be Pregnant at Christmas.<\/p>\n Danny’s Song<\/strong> by Kenny Loggins (This song also has the line “Pisces, virgo rising is a pretty good sign, strong and kind, and a little boy is mine” which I can barely type, let alone sing along, without choking up. Tristan is my little Pisces.)<\/p>\n Apron Strings<\/strong> by Everything But the Girl This Woman’s Work<\/strong> by Kate Bush Arms Wide Open<\/strong> by Creed She’s Having a Baby<\/strong> by Dave Wakeling It’s So Chic to be Pregnant at Christmas<\/strong> by Nancy White That was about all I could come up with. Can you think of any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You remember how it is with your first pregnancy, when you actually buy the pregnancy magazines, and hang out on the message boards at iVillage comparing each twitch and twang with 600 other pregnant mothers due in the same month as you, and you spend months agonizing over the nursery decorating scheme and hours browsing … Continue reading “Pregnancy songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcards-from-my-uterus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPeople smile and tell me I’m the lucky one, and we’ve just begun,
\nThink I’m gonna have a son.
\nHe will be like she and me, as free as a dove, conceived in love,
\nSun is gonna shine above. <\/p>\n
\nAnd I’ll be perfect in my own way
\nWhen you cry I will be there
\nI’ll sing to you and comb your hair
\nAll your troubles I will share <\/p>\n
\nPray God you can cope.
\nI stand outside this woman’s work,
\nThis woman’s world.
\nOoh, it’s hard on the man,
\nNow his part is over.
\nNow starts the craft of the father. <\/p>\n
\nWell I just heard the news today
\nIt seems my life is going to change
\nI closed my eyes, begin to pray
\nThen tears of joy stream down my face <\/p>\n
\nMixed drinks and mixed emotions
\nHead in the clouds, put your feet on the ground
\nAll change,
\nShe’s having a baby
\nYou’re growing up now,
\nYou’re settling down, down, down
\nWill it be a boy or a girl?
\nAnd what will it think of the world?<\/p>\n
\nIt’s so biblical to be pregnant at Christmas
\nNo matter what stories you believe.
\nAnd only suffer from gravid senilis
\nAnd heartburn and nausea and charley-horses and overwhelming fatigue and frequent micturation and varicose veins and swollen ankles and shortness of breath and that .. tired achy feeling in the groin.<\/p>\n