https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:06:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543781 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:29:50 +0000 Sammyfab 543781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's a really interesting chart! </p> <p>We wanted a baby born sometime in January - March to increase the chances of LO being a pro-hockey player (based on info from Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers). Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543770 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:26:57 +0000 Chillybear 543770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@septemberlove: thats awesome! my due date is also my late grandfather's birthday... there are no other family birthdays in october either </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543763 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:25:31 +0000 Chillybear 543763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I was a new house, new baby.... I was conceived like a week after my parents moved into their first purchased home </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543682 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:11:12 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 543682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chillybear: I'm a September baby! Lots of late fall/ early winter sex going on making September babies.</p> <p>There was some chart that looked up your date of conception based on your bday. I was.conceived on my mom's bday and my brother was cpnceived on Christmas. Yucko to learn your parents had special occasipn sex. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543679 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:10:15 +0000 Alivoo01 543679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted a dragon baby for #1, but alas, it didn't happen. Otherwise, we were just ready for a baby so we didn't have any restrictions on due dates. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543665 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:06:31 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 543665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I doubt we will actually TTC to have a holiday baby, but I thought it would be cool to have a Halloween or Easter baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543629 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:00:06 +0000 lomom 543629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't want a tax season baby so we were aiming for May/June/July. LO is due in May on my late grandpa's birthday, so I think we had perfect timing :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543585 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:50:57 +0000 Anagram 543585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tried to plan around my work schedule, so that having a baby would somehow coincide with summer, to make my Mat leave longer.</p> <p>So I would have been happy delivering in April, May, June, July, or early August--any of those times would have also included summer break (when I get paid anyway) + my 12 weeks of FMLA on working days, for an overall extended Mat leave.</p> <p>It worked--I'm due in July, three weeks after summer vacation starts. YAY. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543566 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:47:02 +0000 buffalove 543566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Didn't try for a certain month, but was happy that we got a summer baby (July). My birthday is on Christmas Day and most of our large families are in the winter (Nov - Feb), so we were happy to spread it out a little! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543547 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:43:44 +0000 mlm2934 543547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't try for a specific time, I would have preferred a spring baby, but we didn't start trying until this fall, so sept baby it is :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543377 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:58:22 +0000 rachiecakes 543377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We tried for and got our Christmas baby. I know a lot of people don't like to have birthdays around the holidays. DS was actually born on my brother, my only sibling's, birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543370 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:57:18 +0000 Chillybear 543370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I dont think the link works anymore but heres the chart </p> [attach=132/13/mhjo3j.413x600.original.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543359 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:54:56 +0000 Chillybear 543359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hahaha so funny that one of my old post resurfaced... My due date is 10/9 which is working out perfectly. I'll be 6 months pregnant for my cousins wedding (i'm MoH) I'll be able to attend my coworkers wedding in late august. I should be done the bulk of my busiest period at work and I should be able to take the rest of 2013 off and come back to work after the new year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543316 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:46:24 +0000 BKCaribBaby 543316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, totally. I am much happier person in the spring/summer. I guess those Caribbean roots made me that way. :) There were some things professionally and personally that we wanted to do in early 2012, which stopped us from starting then. Also DH was born within days of Christmas and does not enjoy that, so we did avoid December. We were very lucky that everything worked out as we "planned." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pros-and-cons-to-due-dates/page/2#post-543157 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:52:26 +0000 avivoca 543157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal was to hopefully get pregnant between January and April. My husband travels extensively for work in the summer and I wanted to avoid giving birth at that time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-444177 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:44:45 +0000 luckypenny 444177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sugar: i WISH the 2/3/4 schedule worked for us. DD can barely stay awake that long in the morning and if she does she will only take 20 minute naps all day</p> <p>lately this is my 7 month olds....</p> <p>7am : WU &amp; feed<br /> 7:15: back to bed<br /> 9:45: WU/feed/play<br /> 1pm: nap (1 - 1.5 hrs)<br /> 6-8pm bedtime</p> <p>depending on the length of the second nap LO may or may not go to bed earlier </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-444174 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:39:08 +0000 Kfamilie 444174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow I wonder if my LO is on the lower end of sleep needs? Before the crazy wakeups, he was waking up between 6 and 7, taking his first nap about 3-3.25 hours after that, then taking his second nap about 3.5-4 hours after that. Bedtime usually ended up around 7 or 7:30, depending on how naps went so that we could maintain about 10 or 10.5 hours of wake time. Naps ranged from 40min to 1.5 hours (occasionally a 2 he nap but this was more rare). At this point though the craze is hittin me and I'm not sure what to do about his wake times. He will NOt settle earlier than the times listed above whether I hold him to sleep or let him fuss/cry. But then there are hardly enough hours in the day because he's been fighting naps so much even though he's tired. Sigh. I wish he would go down 2 hours after waking up. It's backwards for him-at this point he goes down 2.5 hours after his last nap because he's awake so much during the day. Thanks for chiming in ladies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443586 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:18:12 +0000 lollipop 443586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My duaghter is 11 mths and her schedule looks smthng like this for the past month<br /> 7:30 - wake up<br /> 10- 1st nap (30 min to 1.5 hrs)<br /> 2 pm (or 3 hrs from last nap) - 1-2 hours<br /> 7pm (or 3 hrs from last nap) - bedtime </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443553 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:49:30 +0000 sugar 443553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated we sleep trained at 16 weeks, but she was still on a 90-ish minute cycle in the day. I'd say somewhere about 6-7 months day care really got her on a 2 nap a day schedule that is pretty close to 2/3/4.<br /> Good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443533 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:35:02 +0000 Mrs. Bee 443533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>olive still can't stay awake long enough to do 2-3-4 at 14 months, but it does work for a lot of people. she's pretty much been on the same schedule since she was 9 months old:</p> <p>8:00am - wake up<br /> 10:30am - Nap #1 (1 1/2 hour)<br /> 3:00pm - Nap #2 (1 hour)<br /> 7:00pm - Bedtime </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443524 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:30:36 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 443524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry :-( </p> <p>2am - wake up (this is new and she needs 4-6 oz before she'll go back to sleep)<br /> 7:30 wake up<br /> 9:30 1 hr nap (2 hr if she's at home instead of daycare)<br /> 12:30 1 hr nap<br /> 5:30 30 min power nap<br /> 7:00 bed time </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443515 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:28:47 +0000 Freckles 443515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sugar: when do people start their LOs on 2/3/4? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443498 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:18:39 +0000 LaurenEC 443498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 18mo now but from about 7/8mo to about 13mo, he was on the same schedule</p> <p>8:00AM - WU<br /> 10:00 - 2hr Nap<br /> 2:00 - 2hr Nap<br /> 7:30 Bed</p> <p>We started with the idea of 2/3/4 but since he took 2hr naps and 12hrs at night that didn't quite work for us. Then we determined that 2hrs was the max awake time in the morning/night and it worked great. Good luck!</p> <p>ETA: This was only at home. Napping at daycare was a nightmare for us!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443409 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:48:28 +0000 Bao 443409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sugar: I've never heard of the 2/3/4 thing, interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443402 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:45:52 +0000 sugar 443402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little one is almost a year, but she's been on the same schedule since this summer:<br /> 6-7am WU<br /> 9:30 to 10- down for first nap<br /> 1:30 to 2:30- down for second nap<br /> (One nap is about an hour and one nap can be up to 2 hours).<br /> 7-7:30 bed time (earlier when she has had bad naps in the day).</p> <p>Good luck. I know people swear by the 2/3/4 schedule- up for two hours, nap, up for 3 hours, nap, up for four hours, sleep for the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443284 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:04:00 +0000 Sammyfab 443284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aww...hugs to you! Can you post a somewhat typical schedule?</p> <p>My LO is 9.5 months and our days look like:</p> <p>6:30 WU<br /> 9:30-10:45/11 nap<br /> 2:30-3:45/4 nap<br /> 6:30 bed</p> <p>The schedule varies a little because his afternoon naps aren't consistent so bedtime can be as early as 6:15. Otherwise, the rest stays the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-10-month-old-schedule-like#post-443247 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:43:29 +0000 Kfamilie 443247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm basically in my own sleep hell. Lemme just make this short by saying we have crazy motn wakeups as wel as early morning wakeups despite careful attention to wakeup times and preserving naps-I've even managed to be at home for almost all naps the last 3 weeks. I am verging on fully crazed. There are just not enough hours in te day because my 10 month old takes longer and longer to settle and he's up for almost 4 hours before each nap but by then I'm having to wake him up just to give him dinner , play a little then go right bak to bed. He settled but had a lot of wakeups and then pops right up at 5, even though he's still tired. Should I try 1nap? What is your 10 month old schedule like? I'm so crazed over here...tired and crying. Encouragement needed :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-ounces-does-your-lo-eat-at-a-feeding#post-392216 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:36:25 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 392216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsRcCar: We pump too. My LO is 4w (tomorrow) and eats roughly 18oz a day.<br /> He is 9lb4oz and was born at 7lb8oz. So, he is gaining the right amount of weight...and eats his meals in 3-4oz a time.<br /> I know as long as their gaining weight they are OK....But, I did find this equation so you can try and figure out if your LO is overeating/under-eating..It is: 2x -2.5x his weight. So, for my 9.4oz baby, it would be 18oz-22.5oz/day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-ounces-does-your-lo-eat-at-a-feeding#post-392214 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:35:29 +0000 loveisstrange 392214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C is 7 months and eats between 6-8oz, 4 times a day. Usually between 26-30oz. She gets solids twice as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-ounces-does-your-lo-eat-at-a-feeding#post-392206 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:30:04 +0000 skibobrown 392206@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter drinks 6 oz at a time, 5x per day. She is 7 months old, and now she also eats solid foods 1-2 times per day as well. </p>