Half birthdays a thing now?

[Dancingmonkey87]

Ds is born on February the 8th and without fail every year Sil makes abig song and dance about her dd celebrating her “half birthday” on ds birthday. (she also celebrates her dd birthday on the original date) Aibu to think she’s batshit to hijack her DN birthday?

[Ubercornsdiscoball]

I know people who celebrate half birthdays. Utterly batshit (unless the birthday is something like Christmas Day)

[HolyMountain]

I hope you all ignore her song and dance, she doesn't expect presents does she?

[Minisoksmakehardwork]

Does she actually throw a 'half birthday' party/present/cake etc or just go on about a bit too much?

The first, completely barking. The second, joke that she's no excuse for every forgetting your son's birthday and chalk it up to individual preferences.

[RepealMay25th]

Why do people frame questions this way? One person you know does something weird and its a "this a thing now?".
No. It isn't.

[Takfujuimoto]

YANBU she sounds pathetic.
If I saw someone try this crap on FB I'd roll my eyes.
Its never a thing for the large majority of people.
I can understand having a winter birthday and celebrating in the spring or summer instead, but no, half birthdays are a non thing.

[Ubercornsdiscoball]

Seriously it does seem to be creeping in. The people I know that do it have half a cake and everything!!

[Gemini69]

she's a cringing selfish arse .. ignore these twonks

[GhoulWithADragonTattoo]

We usually pass comment such ‘Oh it’s your half birthday today.’ but don’t celebrate it. Does your sis actually celebrate it or just comment that her DN’s birthday is on her DD’s half birthday. If just a comment I think it’s sweet :)

[GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]

How bloody annoying. No, that is not a 'thing', that is your SiL trying to hijack your DD's birthday.

[lolaflores]

Sweet Christ!
HOw much more allowance must be made for the self indulgent, overgrown kids be given to wallow int themselves.
Tell her to fuck off out of it.
Mind you.
In spain you have your names day. Feast day of your patron saint.
And they get second xmas on 6th january.
But half birthday, like its some kind of achievement is too much

[GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]

Sorry, your DS, not DD.

[Dancingmonkey87]

Thankfully they don’t live locally but she didn’t acknowledge my ds birthday although my db did via text. They don’t expect presents atleast not from our side of the family but she makes abig thing of going out and celebrating it and tagging family members in her arrangements.

[Pfftlife]

My daughter tried to tell me it was her half birthday she got a "okay then" in reply 😂 not mentioned it again

[Dancingmonkey87]

GhoulWithADragonTattoo No comment but a full blown college sharing photos of dn half birthday on ds 1st birthday literally ten minutes after I posted a college but then she proceeded to tag all of he family members so they would see it.

[Dancingmonkey87]

I couldn’t even tell you when my dcs “half birthdays” are.

[Dancingleopard]

She’s weird and obviously jealous.

[PinkCalluna]

I’m not really seeing the problem tbh.

She sounds a little over enthusiastic about the half birthday but it’s not like she’s demanding a cake at your child’s birthday celebration now is it?

I’m not sure that you can legitimately complain because a family member posts Fb pictures of their child on your child’s birthday tbh. That’s a little bit precious.

And if my DB texted happy birthday I would assume that comes from them both. I wouldn’t also expect a separate text from my SIL.

[DianaPrincessOfThemyscira]

No this is not A Thing. She is being a bloody weirdo and sounds like she can’t bear the focus not being on her or her child.

[LovelyBranches]

When my pfb reached 6 months O bought a little carrot cake and DH and I eat it (we didn’t even share it with DS because of course he wasn’t allowed sugar).

Second born, I marked it by hoping that it was the date her reflux would start calming down (it wasn’t, that was about 4 months later).

It’s not a thing at all and I wouldn’t celebrate my dc’s half birthday when they celebrate their real birthdays

[Dancingmonkey87]

It’s literally been every birthday of DS without fail. I could understand babies as you measure how old they are by months but not when they are reaching 2 and 3 years old.

[Woofygoldberg]

We don't celebrate an official Half Birthday, but my DNeice has a Birthday in Christmas week, both my Sister & I have as well so we know that it can be a bit rubbish when you are young.

Because of this we always make a fuss of DN & give her a gift for her Bday, as well as an IOU certificate for the summer to do an outdoor activity or day out. No half a candle or half a cake though- its not something we would put on social media.

[GhoulWithADragonTattoo]

It does sound a bit OTT, how old is DN?

[Dancingmonkey87]

I’m the same poster who previously posted (but post got deleted due to the media getting the story) about her Sil giving me a present list for dn birthday and telling me what to buy and my db telling me not to bother if I wasn’t going by the list.

[Dancingmonkey87]

Dn is 3 and 5

[FakePlantsOnly]

We've thrown my dad a "half birthday" party in June before as his birthday is Christmas Day. We've only ever done it for milestones though, not every year