https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:14:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718385 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:57:41 +0000 StellaJane 2718385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for all the tips! I think buying a cheap CD player and checking out the CD selection at our local library is probably what I'll do. But even CDs seem to be going to the way of the dinosaurs. My laptop doesn't even have a CD drive anymore. It's crazy to think about how quickly technology has advanced, and yet I don't think it's always for the better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718204 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:09:11 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2718204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm thinking something like this with an iPod shuffle:</p> <p><a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Accessory-Power-GG-PAL-GOgroove-Groove-Pal-Jr.-Portable-Media-Speaker-Tiger/26609307" rel="nofollow">https://www.walmart.com/ip/Accessory-Power-GG-PAL-GOgroove-Groove-Pal-Jr.-Portable-Media-Speaker-Tiger/26609307</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718202 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:07:08 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2718202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have my old iPod that we filled with classical music that we have connected to a very old iPod speaker. It was one that I had gotten for free from somewhere...but it's not any specific brand name. So we have a super old generation iPod hooked up to it that shuffles the songs and plays pretty much all night for LO2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718093 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:03:51 +0000 jhd 2718093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would definitely check out the collection at your library and get an inexpensive CD player. I listened to books on cassette tape for years and years growing up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718092 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:59:31 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2718092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ooh good question! I'm following. I fell asleep to stories on tape for years and loved them (I was 9-13) at the time though. LOTR, folk tales, fairy tales, etc. </p> <p>The cd stories make sense. You could buy on iTunes and burn to cds if iTunes sells stories on cds. Libraries have them to borrow too usually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718091 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:44:39 +0000 Anya 2718091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I fell asleep listening to the cassette player too :happy:<br /> I agree with @bookwormmama: you just need CDs instead of cassettes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718090 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:42:17 +0000 bookwormmama 2718090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My libraries have lots of kids' music CDs and books on CD. My son and I regularly check out children's and other music CDs for the car (he's currently on a Beatles kick thanks to Beat Bugs in Netflix). Just a quick search on Amazon provides tons of CD players under $25. Would that be an option? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nighttime-musicaudio-ideas#post-2718074 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:55:20 +0000 StellaJane 2718074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OK, help me out mamas... when I was a kid my mom had an inexpensive cassette player in my room and every night she'd play a tape for me as I fell asleep. The tapes were just songs and books on tape that she'd check out from the local library. What is today's equivalent of that??? Technology was supposed to make life easier, but I don't feel like sticking the expensive Bose wireless player in my son's room and monkeying around with trying to find audio tracks on Spotify or iTunes. I'm nostalgic for the days when you could just pop in a tape and hit play. I'd love any suggestions for a simple nighttime music/audio routine! Anyone? :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1600184 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:44:15 +0000 MapleMoose 1600184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nobody told me my score but I was completely closed and needed Cervadil and Pitocin for my induction 10 days past my due date. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1600087 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:12:22 +0000 MsLipGloss 1600087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: the short version is that I mentioned during a routine appointment that LO's movement had slowed down a bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1600069 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:06:46 +0000 Mae 1600069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: How did they know to check your fluid that early? (If you don't mind my asking). They don't check that at all at my practice until 41 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1600063 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:05:34 +0000 MsLipGloss 1600063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: 38 weeks. And super low fluid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1600024 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:55:37 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1600024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: Oh no! Why were you induced? How far along were you? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599895 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:20:58 +0000 MsLipGloss 1599895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a 0 and was induced anyway. It was a horrific delivery experience. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599879 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:17:54 +0000 Cherrybee 1599879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know my number but I can only imagine it was very low- like 0, probably. My cervix was clamped shut, very firm and far back. I had two Propess pessaries and it took me 4 days to get to 2cm. They broke my water but still labour didn't kick off. I had maximum syntocin which was pretty intense but I managed to give birth vaginally with no epi and no pain meds, only nitrous oxide gas to relax me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599737 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:41:07 +0000 skipra 1599737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am guessing my score was under 6 because I had two days of misoprostol prior to the actual Pitocin induction. I had to get my water broken and got an epidural but there were no complications. I got Pitocin around 11am and delivered before 6 pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599542 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:45:00 +0000 pmerr 1599542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no idea what my score was, but I had pre-e, so I went to be induced at 38W. I was 0cm, 0%effaced. I started from nothing, and was given cervadil before pitocin, and ended up with an epi. I began the induction at 4pm on a thursday, and had the baby just before noon on the next day. I did get the epi only an hour or so before I had the baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599321 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:43:22 +0000 ShootingStar 1599321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't remember, but I think I was 6 or 7 and my induction ended in a c-section. I'm not sure that there was ever going to be a way around it though. I had GD which caused an unusually high level of amniotic fluid, which kept the baby from descending, which in turn kept me from dilating. I had days of on/off "early early labor" as my midwife called it, and I dilated ~1cm on my own. But no matter what they did (foley catheter, pitocin, breaking water) I didn't dilate past a 3. After 20 hours of contractions we called it and went for a c-section. No regrets :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599288 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:32:10 +0000 LemonLong 1599288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was induced at 38 weeks due to IUGR, I was maybe 1 cm dilated and 70% effaced but they were being generous. I had an epi and had a super successful birth. My birth experience was couldn't have gone better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced-what-was-your-bishop-score-and-how-did-induction-go#post-1599218 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:10:40 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1599218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>** Bump ** </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1075423 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:11:04 +0000 HLK208 1075423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was induced at 40 weeks for high BP. It was a fast and successful (but painful contractions compared to my first, natural labor) vaginal delivery. I had the epidural once I got to 8cm's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1075100 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:21:33 +0000 LemonLong 1075100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Induced at 38 weeks due to IUGR. I had a vaginal delivery with practically no pictocin and an epidural. My birth experience was great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1075036 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:23:17 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1075036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: they didn't offer the induction to me here in Canada either. I only got one because my blood pressure went weird, my water broke and nothing was happening.<br /> I wonder how long they would have let my pregnancy go had I not gone in feeling funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1075009 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:03:49 +0000 Running Elley 1075009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was induced at 38+5 because my water broke naturally and labor failed to progress. They used pitocin and everything went perfectly, I delivered my son vaginally 7.5 hours after they began the pit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1075007 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:00:17 +0000 loveisstrange 1075007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: oh, dont get me wrong. I wanted them to induce me at my due date. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1074996 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:49:37 +0000 teamjse 1074996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Induced at 37 weeks, water broke. I delivered vaginally 36 hours later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1074993 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:44:44 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1074993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: two OBs actually offered the c-section. I had to really talk to them about giving me the option of induction. The only reason I felt ok with it was because I was so close to my due date anyways. I would make the same choice again because I'm glad she didn't get SO massive going too far past 40. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1074977 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:31:52 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1074977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 39 weeks + 3 days along. My water was heavily laden with meconium. Pea soup. I delivered vaginally the following afternoon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced/page/2#post-1074976 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:31:14 +0000 loveisstrange 1074976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Navy_Mommy: I delivered with a fever too. Not sure if it was from my water being broken for nearly 48 hours or from the sheer bodily strain of my horrible, horrible labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-were-induced#post-1074975 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:29:31 +0000 Navy_Mommy 1074975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: during my labor the on call doctor (who refused to believe me when I went in two days earlier saying I felt like I was getting sick) kept saying I needed a cs because i had a 102 fever and the midwife sternly told him he'd cut me open over her dead body since if he had listened to me when I first came in I probably wouldn't have a fever anymore. She was awesome. </p>