Having a baby? Here's some advice on getting your baby to sleep with music, from the book "Oh, Baby! Loving (and surviving!) Your Newborn's First Year" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $14.95), straight from people who've done it:

            "Develop a nap-time routine. I read my kids a book, then they listen to music. That's how they fall asleep. We play stuff like Chicago and Neil Diamond for them through their entire nap-time. It works."

            Forrest, Wellington, Colo., parent to a 3-year-old daughter and 2-year old son

            "Calming CDs that babies and grownups love: `Waltz for Debby,' Bill Evans; `Kind of Blue,' Miles Davis; `Door Harp,' Michael Houser; `Solo Monk,' Thelonius Monk."

            Kenny F., Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., father of a 3-year-old son

            "Music was one of the key elements to getting our baby to sleep. Soothing tunes were ones that contain no vocals_which seem to be distracting. For infants, try ones that also contain heartbeat sounds. My daughter, now 4 years old, still conks out when she listens to her favorite ragtime CD at bedtime."

            C. Karp, Irvine, Calif., parent to a 4-year-old daughter

            "If you get them addicted to sleeping with white noise tapes or music, that's the only way they'll be able to sleep. We made that mistake on our first baby. For our second kid, we just forced him to learn to fall asleep in silence, and once he got the hang of it, he was a much better sleeper than our daughter."

            M.S., New York, N.Y., parent to an 18-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son

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