I’ve always been a huge Bette Midler fan. She was one of the singers that I molded myself after as a girl. I loved her music and thought she was so cool with her bright red hair.

Not too long after becoming a birthmother, I came across a Bette Midler song called Lullaby in Blue. In the song, Bette takes on the role of a birthmother and talks about how society treated her when she was pregnant at seventeen, calling her a “stupid girl.” She sings of how she thinks of him each year on his birthday and about the children she went on to have and their resemblance to him.

The song is very poignant and truly gets to the core of how many birthmothers feel.

Lullaby in Blue
By Bette Midler

I know that I'm no saint.
My head is in the clouds.
They called you a mistake,
but I still, I still say your name out loud.

They called me a stupid girl,
just like my mom.
Too many men passed through my arms.
At seventeen I looked into your eyes,
knew I could never comfort your cries.
Every April still reminds me of you.
The child I never knew.
My lullaby in blue.

It all goes by so fast.
How lovely you must be.
Why you've reached the age at last
that I was when your daddy lived with me.

How I wish we could meet somewhere,
talk it through.
There is so much I would say to you.
There are others, I'm not alone.
A younger brother you've never known,
and a baby girl who so reminds me of you.
The child I never knew.
My lullaby in blue.

As the years go by,
try not to think of us sadly.
Believe it if you can,
I wanna see you so badly.
On your birthday, Mama's thinking of you.
The child I never knew.
My lullaby in blue.
My lullaby in blue.

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