https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:09:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2613126 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 04:40:45 +0000 ClairHuxtable 2613126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: Congratulations!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2612313 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:05:48 +0000 CoffeeMom 2612313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: Congratulations!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2612297 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:30:56 +0000 agold 2612297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ClairHuxtable: congratulations!!! </p> <p>My quick update: my baby girl was born Friday morning at 10:53 am. 2 days past her due date. She's perfect!! </p> <p>@LCTBQE: any update from you, lady?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2612027 Sat, 27 Aug 2016 17:06:06 +0000 ClairHuxtable 2612027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: @MrsSCB: @pregnantbee: @CoffeeMom: @OldpuebloJenn: Thanks, ladies! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611706 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:40:01 +0000 OldpuebloJenn 2611706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: @ClairHuxtable: congrats ladies! :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611319 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 02:43:25 +0000 CoffeeMom 2611319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ClairHuxtable: Congratulations!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611233 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:52:06 +0000 pregnantbee 2611233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ClairHuxtable: Hooray! Thanks for checking in. Congratulations! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611225 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:33:03 +0000 MrsSCB 2611225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ClairHuxtable: Awww, congratulations!! 🎉 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611214 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:21:47 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2611214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ClairHuxtable: congratulations!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2611173 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:45:32 +0000 ClairHuxtable 2611173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi, ladies! Just a quick update...I went into labor and delivered at exactly 39 weeks on Monday, August 22nd! All the best to everyone! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610571 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:42:35 +0000 CoffeeMom 2610571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: Congratulations!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610444 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:33:21 +0000 pwnstar 2610444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: Congratulations! And I will second @LCTBQE: with thank jeebus for modern medicine/c-sections! I had a c/s with this baby (first baby was a vaginally birth) because he was breech. I hope you recover quickly--and well! :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610365 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:08:49 +0000 agold 2610365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: congratulations on the birth of your baby! I'm so glad things worked out how it did for you and your baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610360 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 06:57:39 +0000 LCTBQE 2610360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: oh that's wonderful news! so glad to hear your update and excited to read the full story on the labor thread when you have some time. and my goodness, sounds like he's a healthy little lamb :) thank god for c-sections. I hope you both are doing great at home.<br /> I'm also tall with a super long torso and a little scared that my boy will be in the XL baby club, and as of today, he's late--we shall see! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610300 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:14:33 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2610300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: wow! I was induced and she was 10.1 and I thought that was big! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610299 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:13:55 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2610299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:heart: MRSWHIT1 (Born 7/15) - 1 Months, 14 Days<br /> :heart: Thismustbetheplace (#2 born 7/28) - w, 0 d<br /> :bfp: APRILFOOL (#2 Jack born 7/22) - 1 Months, 3 Days<br /> :heart: Umberto (#1 born 7/29) - 0 Months, 27 Days<br /> :bfp: TeawithPaloma (#2 Dominic born 8/5) - 0 Months, 20 Days<br /> :bfp: dcw6411 (#3 Luke born 7/21 ) - 1 Months, 4 Days<br /> :heart: pregnantbee (#2 born 7/29) - 0 Months, 27 Days<br /> :heart: Mossyslane (#2 born 7/13) - 1 Months, 12 Days<br /> :bfp: AANDMKLOVER (#3 Wes born 7/12) - 1 Months, 13 Days<br /> :bfp: MrsBeluga (#2 born 8/5) - 0 Months, 20 Days<br /> :bfp: Coffeemom (#2 born 7/12) - 1 Months, 13 Days<br /> :heart: mrschickpea (#1 Anya born 7/18) - 1 Months, 7 Days<br /> :bfp: silva (#2 born 8/11) - 0 Months, 14 Days<br /> :heart: coopsmama (#3 born 8/18) - 0 Months, 7 Days<br /> :heart: Glitter (#2 Juliet born 7/31 ) - 0 Months, 25 Days<br /> :heart: oldpuebloJenn (#2 born 8/23) - 0 Months, 2 Days<br /> :bfp: MrsSCB (#1 born 8/17) - 0 Months, 8 Days<br /> :heart: T.H.O.U. (#3 born 8/14) - 0 Months, 11 Days<br /> August 17: KOALAHUGZ (#2 :boy: ) - 41 w, 1 d<br /> :bfp: pwnstar (#2 born 8/11) - 0 Months, 14 Days<br /> :bfp: stratosphere (#2 born 8/16) - 0 Months, 9 Days<br /> August 20: jojogirl (#2 :girl: ) - 41 w, 0 d<br /> :heart: shootingstar (#2 born 8/16) - 0 Months, 9 Days<br /> August 24: agold (#1 :girl: ) - 40 w, 1 d<br /> August 25: LCTBQE (#1 :boy: ) - 40 w, 0 d<br /> August 28: mrskerch (#1 :girl: Induction 8/25) - 39 w, 4 d<br /> August 29: clairhuxtable (#2 :boy: ) - 39 w, 3 d<br /> August 30: pirouette (#2 :boy: c/s 8/25) - 39 w, 2 d </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610279 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:09:42 +0000 pregnantbee 2610279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: Thanks so much for your update. So even though it wasn't your first choice, sounds like it was truly the best one since he is as big as he is. Wow. Just wow. Also ow. Hope you're doing well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2610249 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:43:43 +0000 stratosphere 2610249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: @OldpuebloJenn: sorry for the late update but Baby Boy arrived safe and sound at my scheduled c-section on 8/16. I never did go into labor on my own prior to that (I would have tried for a VBAC) so we went forward with the c-section. </p> <p>I was pretty disappointed the night before my scheduled C and was having second thoughts about pushing it back a week, but I am now quite relieved I didn't try for the VBAC after all. It turns out baby was 10lbs 11oz, 22.8" long and a head circumference of 39cm!!! He is a giant and was not engaged or descended at all and my doctor is now pretty sure he wouldn't have fit through my pelvis or if he did somehow squeeze through would have caused some serious damage on the way out--his head is enormous. We had NO IDEA he was this big--he was like 75-90 %ile on his stats at 20 week scan and I always measured fundal height exactly on track so my doc didn't suspect he would be larger than average. Yikes! He is 100+ percentile across the board. Apparently my long torso (I'm 6' tall) hid him well. I will post more in the labor watch thread, but wanted to at least give an update here! I have so enjoyed reading along on the journey with all of you! Good luck to all the ladies still waiting on the arrival of their little babes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2608790 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:29:07 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2608790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@OldpuebloJenn: ugh! I did a lot of shopping and it wasn't even fun shopping because there wasn't anything I could really shop for!! Any little place in your house you could decorate? I bought some new frames. Maybe a frame for a baby picture when baby does come? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2608788 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:17:34 +0000 agold 2608788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@OldpuebloJenn: hi there! Thinking about you and your baby! Hope labor starts soon for you. </p> <p>How are all the other still-pregnant August moms??? I feel like my days and remaining hours are so precious! I am making plans for each day and getting freaked out a tad wondering when and how my labor will start. It's like im sitting on a ticking time bomb!! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2606138 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:51:33 +0000 OldpuebloJenn 2606138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm SOOOO bored. Dd is back in school, my mom has been here for 8 days- so my house is spotless- it's 105 outside, so we can't really be out. Baby is now two days past due date... I'm bored bored bored. My mom and I are going to walk a mall till its time to pick dd from school. I'm trying to be positive, but I'm BORED. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605746 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:21:58 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2605746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: it was a really nice transition for me to have two business days where they could still contact me for those "emergency" questions but I didn't have a baby yet </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605724 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:41:22 +0000 pregnantbee 2605724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: The brand is Outshine and the ladies here were talking about them a couple weeks back. Not sure they have them still at Costco, but they're at Safeway :)</p> <p>I don't think I've ever been effaced with no dilation, so no experience there. There's really no way to predict when baby will come. Sorry! Enjoy your days off and ignore work email :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605721 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:32:13 +0000 agold 2605721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I wish I could say my last day was enjoyable, or that I knew I was definitively done with work for the next three months. I don't think my boss will go two days without at least emailing me and two weeks without asking me to do something. But whatever. At least I don't have to go into the office tomorrow or for quite a long time. Whew! Focusing on relaxing and getting this baby to come now! </p> <p>In that regard, 39 week ob check showed that I am 70% effaced and zero dilated. That's some progress!! Anyone else ever have that much effacement and still not dilation? When can I expect her to come? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605718 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:27:19 +0000 agold 2605718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: what are the Popsicles?? I was just at Costco and forgot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605689 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:56:23 +0000 pregnantbee 2605689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yaaaaas! My husband picked up some of the coveted popsicles for me this eve :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605487 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:01:56 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2605487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: happy last day of work </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605455 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:10:04 +0000 LCTBQE 2605455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@agold: ooh maybe they'll tell you she's engaged and that's what the pain is?? </p> <p>I've been working (mostly) from home for a week now, which has been nice, but I'm on duty and on the hook for producing artwork until *labor*, not just the due date--so if he's late, I'll be here at my kitchen table chipping away at my projects--just don't want to lose mat leave time. It's great that you're going to be OOO from here on out! so nice to not waste 90 minutes a day primping and commuting :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605444 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:57:33 +0000 agold 2605444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: My 39 week check up is today also! A little later this afternoon. Are you working up to your due date? Today is my last day. There's a few things I haven't finished that I felt like I should have. I feel badly leaving. But today is the first day I am feeling almost in pain and I feel like its the right time for me to leave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2016-moms/page/186#post-2605379 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:38:28 +0000 LCTBQE 2605379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stratosphere: hi lady, how did it go? thinking of you :heart: </p> <p>@agold: the cramping is nothing to be jealous of, I don't think it necessarily means anything. still trying to get my work projects in a good place at the end of every day *just in case*, though. My 39w checkup is today, when is yours? wonder if they'll agree to a membrane sweep :) </p> <p>@coopsmama: yeah, I'm not doing so great in the sack these days, either--most of why I'm encouraged to DTD is because I'm scared of what my body will be like after recovery and trying to work it in. (ha?) you're so encouraging, though, and your confidence is inspiring, really! thank you. about the peanut gallery "it's sooooo hard" people, sometimes I wonder if maybe they weren't that happy to begin with, and then they added babies into the mix. nice to hear you respectfully disagree :heart: </p>