Created in 1996 by host Ellen Kushner and produced by WGBH for Public Radio International, Sound & Spirit's an award-winning, weekly series of hour-long programs that celebrate the human spirit through music and ideas. Welcoming Children into the World has become a perennial favorite among listeners and one of Ellen's most popular and requested programs. Bearing "music for and about our youngest children" that describes the universal stresses and joys of an infant, the CD reflects the radio playlist, featuring artists and songs from the program. The tracks run from Sweet Honey and Woody Guthrie to Serbo-Croatian and Nepalese lullabies, a song about adoption, a Baka nursery rhyme, a medieval Sephardic song about going through labor, a Navajo chant, and several African genres touching on various baby-related topics.

Tracks include: Nursery Rhyme (Baka Forest People), Little Potato (Malcolm Dalglish), ¡O! Que Mueve Mezes (Libana), C’est La Vie (Henri Dikongué), Happy Adoption Day (John McCutcheon), Circle of the Sun (Sally Rogers), Omwana Wa Mberi Nesiekhoira (Nursery Boys), First Cry (Sharon Burch), Hey Pretty Baby (Who’s My Pretty Baby) (Woody Guthrie), Nepalese Lullaby (Neelam Shrestha), Durme Durme (Tanja Solnik), On Children (Sweet Honey In The Rock), Mangina Zaza (Rossy)