A few weeks before their delivery dates, some women in the Bronx get a baby shower and the opportunity to do something special for their newborns.

A program at Jacobi Medical Center teams up Carnegie Hall musicians with expectant mothers to write lullabies.

Nicole Adams has been working with musician Daniel Linden.

"He said that it was going to be feelings, how I felt about the baby, so it came natural to me," Adams said. "I just can't wait to meet him. Like, I can't because my due date is coming."

In just a few minutes, they came up with lyrics for baby Aiden's lullaby, and the words become a song.

"I feel like once people write something down, it's so honest. It's easier than normally writing a song," Linden said.

Carnegie Hall had been doing teen songwriting workshops here when a nurse suggested a lullaby workshop for new moms. That's how the Lullaby Project was born.

"It is something that's not medical, but this really connects them to their baby, and it gives them an opportunity to verbalize just what they're thinking," said Ellen Walk, a health educator at Jacobi Medical Center. "It's really all about the love."

Since its inception, the program has expanded to a dozen of locations around the city. One thousand lullabies have been written so far.  

"Carnegie Hall overall believes that everyone should have access to music and that everyone has the innate capacity to be music makers, and so this really fits within our mission to make music as accessible as possible," said Tiffany Ortiz, one of its educators.

Titilope Adewuyi wrote a lullaby for her son in 2017. Now, she's back to write another.

"I feel great because naturally, he's a happy baby, so even with that lullaby, he's always excited," she said.

Parents receive a recording of their lullabies, and some take to the stage for an annual Lullaby Project concert each May.