Hard core rap.
No really, play nothing

i heard also and i think is true.but is much better when the mother listen this music while she is still pregnant.

Soft music playing in the background is okay. Something a little jazzy is good. You dont want music that a prospective buyer is going to stop paying attention to your house and start dancing and singing as if they were on American Idols.

My preemie loves music. Not sure if it helps with growth but it certainly doesnt hurt. Gentle infant massage definately does help and like others have said lots of love and attention. Also tell her not to put the baby on a strict feeding schedule. Preemies grow at a faster rate and sometimes need to eat more often.

Elevator music. Something boring, instrumentals are nice. People are only going to be in your house a few minutes, and a little music in the background is ok.

My son was two weeks LATE so not a preemie but we played classical music all through the night in his room as it seemed to really soothe him. He’s now 16 months and is very rhythmical and loves his music and dancing. He’s also very bright and a great talker for his age- I’m sure the music had something to do with it. I think it’s a lovely idea and nice that you want to help out.
I bought Charlie a cd called Classics for babies which had a sleepy CD with lots of gentle melodic tunes and a play time CD with lots of rousing music which is also great and still one of his faves.

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This is a very complex question, and I’m don’t have an MBA, but buying trends are definitely moving away from CD purchases. According to one source, digital downloads are expected to surpass CD sales by 2012- but this will not be enough to make up for the loss in CD sales.

It’s much cheaper for record companies to produce and distribute music for download than it is to produce, manufacture, and ship CDs. The cost of a CD is still around a $1 more than it would be to download the same songs. So, on one hand, profit per sale is increasing for record companies, but because of illegal downloading, overall profits are going down.

If anything, it’s much easier for a band to enter the mp3 market than it is to record, manufacture, and distribute a CD for sale, so I seriously doubt any band will be prevented from releasing new music. If anything, the current trend will allow more bands to have their music heard by more people. At 99-cents a pop more consumers are willing to take a chance on a band than they would if they had to plunk down $15 for a CD. Of course, this increased competition will also hurt some acts- consumers’ have a limited amount of money to spend and more and more music from which to choose. But in terms of an actual CD you can hold in your hand, yes, there probably will be fewer bands making those in the future.

One way some bands are trying to get around illegal downloading is to produce good old-fashioned vinyl LP’s. While the sale of CD’s dropped 17-percent last year, sales of LP’s has gone up by 36-percent. Vinyl, however, is still just a speck of the overall music market. Nearly 450 million CD’s were sold last year, versus just under 1 million LP’s, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Based on the first three months of this year, Nielsen says vinyl album sales could reach 1.6 million in 2008.

Online downloading has also affected the price of concert ticket prices. Performers trying to make up for lost sales, have steadily increased ticket prices nationally from an average of $29.81 in 1997 to $62.07 last year, according to Pollstar, a concert trade magazine. Of course, because of rising fuel costs, transportation costs have also sharply risen during that same time period (It’s estimated that 35-50 percent of an artist’s share of revenue from a tour goes to paying crew members, production costs, etc.).

The music industry is far from dying, but it is rapidly changing, and record companies will have to adapt to those changes. I can remember a time when the record company execs said that illegal taping of LP’s on to blank cassettes was going to kill their industry. A blank tape tax was even proposed. Obviously, the tax never went through and the industry survived just fine. I believe they’ll be okay this time around also.

The truth is nobody knows exactly. Certainly, if someone has the money and inclination to buy a CD but downloads it instead because it is easier that can only been as lost profit for the artist. However, it is also the case that having access to a band’s music is a great way to “try before you buy”. When CDs are approaching $20, I think that being able to listen to a few songs on youtube or whatever is a good way of protecting yourself from wasting your money on something you wouldn’t like. In general, the internet is a fantastic tool for learning about new music and I can honestly say it has caused me to buy -more- albums.

Opponents of the industry point to it’s severe drop in quality. Maybe it’s just me, but I think that their record sales are being hurt because they are almost entirely focused on selling personalities packaged with the same old crap pop tunes. In the past, they were somewhat more focused on creative new artists (like today’s indies). They old record companies may not have liked the Beatles and their long hair, but they still signed them!

I gave birth to my second child 8 weeks early. He weighed 3 lbs 10 oz and was 17 inches long. I never played any music and he’s now 5 months old (3 months corrected) and weighs 16 lbs and he is 23 inches long. He’s the average weight of a baby his age, he’s just a little shorter. Preemies thrive by having their condition closely monitored and adjusting it accordingly. All your relative has to do is feed the baby just as she would a full-term baby and shower the baby with all kinds of love. They will eventually catch up. Preemies are own their own growth chart and some rarely make it on the full-term growth chart. As long as the baby is growing then she’s doing everything right. I’ve never heard of music helping them grow healthier but it certainly doesn’t hurt the baby.

Congrats & Good luck to her