Sweet lullabies for babies

About this lullaby

Put it on at lights out and it keeps going for 2 hours and 1 minutes. If your child only needs help falling asleep rather than staying asleep, this is the right length. It carries them through the drowsy stage and quietly ends. That length suits naps, car rides and the slow half hour before bed. The video ends on its own once the house has gone quiet.

There is nothing on the channel that a small child should not see or hear. The audio never spikes, the picture never flashes, and nothing is trying to grab attention or sell anything. Being able to leave something running near a sleeping baby is rare, and it is exactly what we set out to make.

There is a simple reason slow music helps small children sleep. Slow music encourages slow breathing, and slow breathing is most of what falling asleep actually feels like from the inside. It is the same quiet approach parents have used with soft singing for as long as there have been babies.

Underneath everything is real classical music. We take melodies that already work, slow them down and let them repeat gently. Nothing here is trying to be clever or new, because tired children do not need clever, they need familiar and slow.

Consistency is the quiet secret here. Same time, same order, every night. Within a week or two the first few notes start to work as a signal all by themselves.

It is not only for children. The slow pace, the soft volume and the lack of interruptions calm a busy adult mind just as well as a toddler's. The same thing that helps your child drift off may end up helping you too.

It earns its place in more than just the nighttime routine. It works in the car on a long drive, in the stroller on a restless afternoon, and on a plane when a nap has to happen in a strange seat. The same qualities that make it good for night make it good anywhere the world around a child is a little too loud or too new.

Families in more than 100 countries play our lullabies every night, and that is the best review we could ask for. We hope this one finds a place in your bedtime routine too.