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Backed by peer-reviewed research

Weekly prenatal lullabies

Build your baby’s sleep cues before they’re even born.

Lullaby Drop sends a weekly email or text with a curated, high-quality lullaby or gentle nursery rhyme, timed for the second and third trimester when fetal hearing develops.

Ready-to-play paid pack

Prenatal Lullaby Starter Pack

A curated one-time pack of high-quality lullabies and gentle nursery rhymes for 2nd/3rd trimester listening. Research suggests familiar, gentle routines may help build sleep cues before birth.

Get the Starter Pack — $9One-time purchase · Not medical advice

No spam. Just one gentle cue each week.

Lullaby Drop music-note baby mark

Lullaby Drop

One melody. One week. One softer bedtime cue.

How it works

A tiny ritual, delivered weekly.

We keep the experience simple so it can fit beside prenatal vitamins, a glass of water, and ten quiet minutes before bed.

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Sign up in one minute

Tell us your email and stage so each note feels timed to your pregnancy journey.

2

Receive one weekly drop

We send a curated lullaby or nursery rhyme with a short listening note — calm, high-quality, never noisy.

3

Play it to your bump

Make it a small ritual: a quiet room, gentle volume, and a melody you can reuse after birth.

The science of prenatal sound

Gentle evidence, translated for real life.

The studies do not promise perfect sleep. They do suggest that repeated, gentle sound in late pregnancy can become familiar — and familiarity may help some newborns settle.

Sound memories

Babies begin recognizing familiar sound patterns.

Research suggests fetuses can hear, learn, and remember sounds in the third trimester, and gentle in-utero lullaby routines may support early sleep cues and maternal-fetal bonding.

Mastnak, 2016

Settled states

Familiar rhymes may help newborns rest more quietly.

In one study, newborns familiarized with nursery rhymes before birth showed fewer waking states, more deep or quiet sleep, and lower heart rates after birth.

Lang et al., 2020

Melody recall

A simple song can stay familiar for months.

Babies exposed to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” about five times weekly in late pregnancy showed stronger neural responses to that melody up to four months after birth.

Partanen et al., 2013

Self-regulation

Gentle music may support newborn soothing skills.

A pregnancy music-exposure study found improved newborn self-regulation on the Brazelton scale, especially habituation: blocking out noise or light to stay settled.

Arya et al., 2012

References and DOI linksOpen

THE PERSON BEHIND THE DROP

Meet Marie

Twice ARIA-nominated songwriter · Songs recorded by LeAnn Rimes · Collaborations with Bryan Adams, Mark Hudson (Aerosmith) and Arif Mardin (Norah Jones)
Hand-drawn watercolour portrait of Marie Wilson, Lullaby Drop founder, holding an acoustic guitar

For over two decades, sound has been Marie Wilson's craft — a twice ARIA-nominated Australian singer-songwriter who has written for and worked alongside some of music's most respected artists. But Lullaby Drop didn't begin in a studio. It began with a simple question: why has helping a baby sleep — something so instinctual — become so complicated?

That question led Marie from co-founding The Thompson Method and My Milk Map into research on how sound and rhythm shape a developing baby, who begins listening long before birth. Lullaby Drop is where her life's work meets that curiosity: one consistent, purpose-built piece of music, introduced in the womb and carried into the nursery, as a newborn's most familiar cue to settle.

Learn more about Marie's music →

Marie's research project

Marie is beginning her own research into how a consistent, purpose-built lullaby can help babies settle. It's early days — she's looking for mothers who'd like to be part of it. Register your interest and we'll be in touch as the project takes shape.

No spam. We’ll only email as the project takes shape.

Gentle reassurance

Calm, not complicated.

When should I start?+

Lullaby Drop is designed for expecting mothers in the second or third trimester, when fetal hearing is developing. If you are earlier, you can still join and keep the ritual gentle.

Is this medical advice?+

No. Lullaby Drop is a calm listening ritual inspired by peer-reviewed research, not a medical product or treatment. Always follow guidance from your clinician.

How loud should I play each song?+

Think soft room volume — something soothing for you, not pressed against your belly. The weekly note will keep the routine simple and low-pressure.