Artist	Song
Pretenders	Show Me
from Learning to Crawl (Remastered) (2007)
Gloria Estefan	Nayib's Song (I Am Here for You)
from 'Til Their Eyes Shine...The Lullaby Album (1992)
Sweet Honey In the Rock	Hush Li'l Baby
from Feel Something Drawing Me On (1985)
Rickie Lee Jones	I Won't Grow Up
from Pop Pop (1991)
Peter, Paul & Mary	For Baby (For Bobbie)
from The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary (2005)
Paige Stroman	Mother and Child
from Mother and Child (2003)
Maura O'Connell	Dun Do Shuile
from 'Til Their Eyes Shine...The Lullaby Album (1992)
Dionne Warwick	Reach Out for Me
from The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (2005)
Barbra Streisand	I'm Five/A Kid Again
from My Name Is Barbra (1987)
Carolyn Arends	You Bring Me Joy
from Sweet Dreams and Starry Nights, Vol. 2 (2005)
Kate Bush	This Woman's Work
from The Sensual World (1989)
Ivy	Sing
from For the Kids (2010)
Loretta Lynn	He's Got the Whole World In His Hands
from The Gospel Spirit: Loretta Lynn (2004)
Emmylou Harris	Golden Cradle
from Light of the Stable (2004)
Joan Baez	Kumbaya
from Joan Baez In Concert (Live) (2006)
Aretha Franklin	(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman
from Aretha Franklin: 30 Greatest Hits (2008)
Christina Aguilera	Beautiful
from Stripped (2002)
Olivia Newton-John	Jenny Rebecca
from Warm and Tender (1989)
Pretenders	Kid
from The Singles (2004)
Nil Lara	My First Child
from Nil Lara (1996)
Cass Elliot	Make Your Own Kind of Music
from Cass Elliot: Mama's Big Ones (1987)
Linda Ronstadt	Good Night
from Dedicated to the One I Love (2009)
Christine Brown	Innocence
from Childhood (2004)
Jane Birkin	Mother Stands for Comfort
from Fictions (2006)
Armand Amar & Sinéad O'Connor	A New Born Child
from Le premier cri (Bande originale du film) (2007)

Comment:

There are songs you’ve known and loved for years, but you probably never connected them with motherhood before. For instance, Carole King and her then-husband Gerry Goffin originally meant Aretha Franklin’s stone-cold-classic soul ballad “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman” as a romantic tune, but it speaks just as strong to the bond between mothers and children. Another great ’60s songwriting team, Bacharach & David, probably intended the Dionne Warwick hit “Reach Out for Me” as a man-woman message, but it sure hits home as a parent’s patient promise. And the fact that head Pretender Chrissie Hynde had a baby with Kinks leader Ray Davies just before releasing “Show Me” makes a strong case for the song as a new-mama’s revelation.

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