Do you care what month you conceive in?

Honestly ttc is so hard anyway, I would be grateful whatever month my baby would be born in

I don't want a september or later baby because I already have a DD, nephew, 2nieces, dp, sil, 2 brothers, nan, grandad all with September / October and December birthdays so it's expensive just before xmas😂 but that's literally my only reason.

First baby didn’t give it much thought and ended up with May which was nice - good weather but not too hot for a few months. Second baby we wanted around a 2 year gap but by the time we were ready it would have meant a June/July/august baby so we held off to avoid the summer to avoid them being youngest in the year. Started trying for a sept baby and it took 2 cycles so was born early Nov.

In hindsight it was a horrible time to have a baby - I feel like the first 5 months of her life were in the dark (not helped by lockdown!).

If I was doing it again I would choose Feb/March - middle of the school year and you get an extra term of 30 hours funding as compared to April/May babies, plus you’re not heavily pregnant in the summer, and don’t have the newborn days in the depths of winter. Perfect!

Wanted to actively avoid a December baby, my dad has a December birthday and hates it, didn't want a baby close to Christmas. 1st was born in October. 2nd was a surprise and was due on Christmas Day, came a little early but I still feel a little pang of guilt about birthday parties etc when he gets to school.

When starting TTC I didn't want an august baby or a January baby... after several years of trying I stopped caring and got a January baby.

I liked having a baby in January so much that I did it again 2 years later (but she clung on until February)

I never gave it a second thought with both my babies!

Genuinely would not have 'planned' to avoid certain months of the year for various reasons

Yes, really wanted to avoid Dec/Jan due to Christmas and multiple existing family birthdays.

May/June/July would be ideal for us I think if it was a case of being able to choose :)

At the time I didn't give it a thought but then we weren't trying.my dd is in (late August baby) school now. Most of the children are now 7 she's 6 some of them turning 7 literally 2 weeks after she was 6 so if I was to try for more I would deffo think about this.

No i didnt.
Of course you can think there's an optimum month but knowing g how hard it is for some people to conceive and some never actually manage it I am very happy for anything!
As it was I had an end of August one and an end of September one.
As it happens, they were fine did well at school and I've had no worries about them. They are young adults now and everything is good.

I always wanted a Spring early Summer babies I have children born in March, May and two in late January that were due early February. Avoided September to December as weather is too damp and generally don't like Autumn

As any parent of a premie will tell you, you can influence the due date you will be given at the start of the pregnancy, but you can’t necessarily influence the date the baby actually arrives. My two had the same due date, but not the same birthday month.

@faithfulbird20 yes, born a week in to lockdown which was not ideal but thank goodness before that heatwave!!

I just never wanted to be heavily pregnant in the summer😂 but now it’s taking so long to actually get pregnant, I’ll be happy with anything😂😂

July and August babies here.. I do hope it isn't too hard school wise for them

I planned for September! Perfect for teacher as you can get 12 months maternity for the price of 10 and being the oldest at school can help them academically.

I didn't care less I just wanted to conceive. The Dec 28th birthday my DS ended up with is less than ideal though 😂

Actively avoided TTC the month that would have resulted in a Christmas baby but if it had taken us longer then we wouldn't have been picky.

I think being able to choose the month is basically a massively fortunate position to be in. Plenty of people will take any month if it means managing to conceive.

I had a baby due in September but born very very late august. She will be the youngest in her school year but do I regret having her or her having an august birthday? Nope.

If I could choose I would definitely want a baby not born in summer or December.

I used to avoid sex in the months where it would fall like that.

However now two years into TTC and miscarriages I couldn't give a shit when it's born. It could be Christmas Day, I just want to have the baby!

So, my point is - these things are irrelevant really - having a baby can be so difficult for some that the month of conception is the last worry on my mind

I cared when we started TTC but after six months it no longer bothered me, I just wanted a baby.

Re the question about November babies getting sick. My son was born November 2020 and didn't catch his first cold until he went to his childminders in September 2021.

We've been trying for number 4 for 2.5 years now so I really don't care about a due date at this point as long as I get pregnant lol but my other three childrens birthdays are jan and march and obviously with christmas in December it makes for a few expensive months so a summer baby would be ideal just for spreading costs a little bit.

Ha, when we started trying for our son, we wanted autumn so knowing it probably wouldn’t happen immediately the earliest we could’ve been due would’ve been August. We had our boy in November… the following year, conceived on the verge of starting fertility treatments!
Ideal time of year. My husband works a job that means he isn’t around much (at all!) in the summer months so it meant he was around for me and DS.
We’ll probably start trying for DC2 similar time of year… but when we actually end up being due will be anyone’s guess! It’s not that easy to plan.

No thought regarding it and as a consequence i ended up with both a January baby and an August baby. The January baby was meant to be December though.

I did care initially, as I didn’t really want a January baby.
But then I had a miscarriage so now I just want to be able to get pregnant and stay pregnant.

I aimed for (and got!) autumn babies, because of the educational advantage.