Jesus Loves Me Fast Asleep, Heartbeat Lullabies

Review Crack babies going through withdrawal have also been comforted by the Heartbeat Lullabies and increasingly pediatricians prescribe it for colicky babies or those who have trouble falling asleep. -- BabyTalk Magazine Regarded as one of the century's great advances -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Woodford's Baby-Go-To-Sleep Heartbeat Lullabies have sold more than 3.4 million copies -- and the US Military has given out more than 1,000,000 copies saying they are directly linked to improved job performance and reduced household stress and decreased child and spousal abuse. --National Enquirer, October 20, 1998 Product Description Jesus Loves Me Fast Asleep is the Christian version of the Baby go to Sleep series of Heartbeat Lullabies. The tradition nursery songs with a human heartbeat rhythm is the most successful recordings to get babies to stop crying and sleep all night and have sold over 3.4 million copies.The therapeutic music also has been discovered to calm adults suffering from PTSD, Insomnia, Dementia, Alzheimer's and Chronic pain. From the Label Ann Durgerian, co-owner of the Carousel Baby Shop in Pasadena, swears by the Baby-Go-To-Sleep audio-therapy tapes, the store's top seller for parents seeking sleep. From the Artist During the 1970's and 80's, I was a successful record producer, publisher and/or song writer for acts such as The Commodores, The Temptations, Alabama, Hank Williams, Jr., Wayne Newton, and Barbara Mandrell. I was motivated by fame, money, and ego -- not helping children get well. In Oct. 1984, a daycare center provider told me there was a need for children's music with a more contemporary sound, more like what parents listen to at home. You don't get rich and famous making music for daycares. You can, however, achieve immortality in the music business by producing a Christmas hit. We decided to record contemporary versions of five Christmas songs. We sent free copies of our experimental Christmas recording to 150 daycare centers along with a questionnaire. I expected the responses to confirm my hopes for a hit. All 150 questionnaires came back positive, but what moved me were the barely legible comments from kids in two inch high lettering -- "Thank you, Mr. Woodford. We want more music!" I felt good and wanted to do more. My thought was to record an actual human heart from the chest, where a child lays her head on her momma. I could use it as the rhythm (drums) of traditional lullabies. What I thought would be a 3-day project became a technical challenge involving 1700 hours in the studio just to produce 5 songs. We sent the heartbeat recording to the 150 daycares, plus had nurses test the music in a newborn nursery at Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, AL. The nurses found that 94% of crying babies stopped crying and were calmed in less than two minutes when the Tape recording was played. Although the results were intriguing, I didn't devote much time to the project until I got a call from the Cardiac Recovery Unit at the University Hospitals of Alabama. A Down Syndrome baby, recovering from open heart surgery, was agitated and resisting his ventilator. When a patient fights or tries to breath against an oxygen support system, they become oxygen deprived. Their heart rate goes up to compensate for the lack of oxygen in the blood stream and they can die. The baby was calmed in less than two minutes when the nurses played the music. The nurses were very excited to discover they could use something so simple and non-invasive to calm children. Besides using them during life threatening situations, the nurses believed they might also be helpful in preventing the infants and children from getting agitated. I was invited to come to the hospital to discuss using the music with other children in the unit. Upon entering the intimidating, humbling, high-tech environment of the CICU, I became weak-kneed and light-headed. I saw babies, cut from the neck to the belly button, attached to wires, tubes and monitors. My heart went out to them. I gained immediate respect for nurses in the ICU. I was surprised by the annoying sounds of the loud, intermittent, startling, beeping and buzzing sounds coming from the life support equipment . I observed nurses scurrying from one child to the other, doing whatever was necessary to keep these children alive long enough for their heart repairs to begin healing. The nurses stressed the importance of rest and sleep in promoting rapid healing. In some cases the only solution for calming the children is to sedate them. They requested I find a way to play the music continuously, but at a lower volume, because it was making the nurses tired! For the next six months I worked on perfecting the recordings. Using the nurses' suggestions, I increased the volume of the heartbeat and added songs. Seeing agitated children calm down so quickly seemed like a miracle. I was as amazed as the nurses that it was working so well. As I watched the babies quickly calm d
ASIN: B00000J6I9
VSKU: DBV.B00000J6I9.G
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Author/Artist:Lenny LeBlanc|Heartbeat Lullaby singers|Terry Woodford
Binding: Audio cd