![A baby in a pram rolling over a sequence of numbers](https://aperiodical.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/lullaby-sequence-800x391.png)
My son was born last September. While he doesn’t hate sleep as much as his sister did, he still needs a bit of help to drop off.
I’m not at all musically inclined, and I seem unable to remember more than a couple of lines from wordy songs (my version of “Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird” rapidly veers into nonsense as I try to think of a rhyme for the next line), so when the girl was little I hit upon the strategy of singing counting songs to lull her off to sleep.