A Baby Shower Song With Your Little One's Name

Turn one line about your wife's baby shower into a finished song that includes your baby's name.

You want a song for your wife's baby shower. Something that says her name, the baby's name, and the feeling in the room. Type a few details into jhoom.baby and you get a real song back: lyrics, music, vocals. You can play it at the shower, send it to family who can't come, or download it and keep it.

What to put in your idea

The more specific you are, the less the song sounds like a generic baby shower track. Four things help most:

• The baby's name. Spell it the way you want it sung. If it's "Aarav," write Aarav, not "our baby boy." The name is the whole point.
• Your wife's name and how you two talk. If you call her "Shona," say so. If she hates being called "Mommy" before the baby arrives, leave it out.
• One real detail. The nursery wall colour. The name you almost chose. The cousin who predicted a girl. The 3 a.m. craving for vada pav. One true thing beats ten nice-sounding ones.
• The mood. Do you want the room laughing, or reaching for tissues? Say which.

Keep the whole idea to two or three sentences. Short ideas work better than long ones.

Example ideas you can borrow

• "A warm acoustic song for my wife Priya's baby shower. Our daughter's name is Meera. Mention the tiny yellow kurta we bought before we knew she was coming, and how Priya picked the name from her grandmother."
• "An upbeat pop song for a baby shower for our son Kabir. My wife Anjali is the calm one and I'm the nervous one. Include the joke that we've already bought him three cricket bats."
• "A soft ballad for my wife Sneha's baby shower. Our baby's name is Ishaan. Mention the monsoon we spent waiting for him, and that Sneha still reads to him every night even though he isn't here yet."
• "A joyful, slightly funny song for my wife Ritu's baby shower. Baby's name is Zoya. Mention that her grandmother has already knitted six sweaters and that Ritu wants the baby to inherit her love of old Hindi film songs."

Pick one of these, swap in your own names and details, and you're ready. If you want the song to sound like something, you can say so: "soft acoustic guitar," "warm piano," "Indian pop ballad." You don't have to use music words if you don't have them. "Happy" and "gentle" are enough.

One last thing: play it once through before the shower. If a line doesn't sound like your family, change the idea and make it again. It takes a few minutes.