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The mother hears the heartbeat of the foetus in the womb and does not want this sound to be interrupted. Even though the foetus is in a pool of uninterrupted sounds, by the age of four months he/she can distinguish his/her mother's voice at different frequencies and records this sound in his/her memory. This article attempts to convey the evolving journey from this first voice recorded in memory to the “inner voice” that comes to life when we are in distress in our adult lives. Through this journey, we try to convey to the reader how the mother's voice, which is the first “other” since the intrauterine life, can wrap the baby like a swaddle with the formation of the vocal membrane after birth, and the role of lullabies and fairy tales in this embracement. This text, which deals with the relationship between our capacity for symbolization and our investment in thought and sound, attempts to convey the reasons as to why the sound-swaddle cannot wrap the baby, and it draws attention, with a clinical example, to the function of the sound-swaddle in analytical work by emphasizing the narrative function of the analyst.