I am always singing one or the other lullaby to Shreya. While trying to make her sleep, while feeding her daily meal, while trying to engage her into something if she's bored and crying and so on...
When Shreya was born, I remember fretting over the fact that I didn't know even one lullaby to sing to her. I used to hum her into sleeping (not that she had sound sleep.....). Even my mother or my mother-in-law was find it hard to recollect any of their old ones..
Yes google was of some help, but search only showed the nursery rhymes or lullabies which were difficult to memorize and I was tired of searching further. There was only one song that my mother remembered and it was a great help... Then I broke it down to many smaller ones and tried singing one by one at different times and did the magic....
Nowadays Shreya sleeps only when I sing that particular verse, a number of times.....
Today she was playing with her toys and we were talking among ourselves, when she suddenly started babbling as if we had ignored her and she wanted us to talk to her. I realized, now we will have to tell her stories instead of only lullabies.
So when we had just settles comfortably with lullabies, its about time to tell stories and that to new everyday......!
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