Christmas birthday?

My oldest was born Christmas eve. His birthday is pretty much overshadowed completely by Christmas but he gets on with it. We do a post xmas birthday once he returns to school and his friends are more likely to be available. He doesnt know anything else and actually says he appreciates the presents more a few weeks after Christmas. I tend to give him his main gift on his birthday but give 2 or 3 smaller ones after... usually clothing, a game and a book.

My Christmas day baby was conceived the beginning of April.

As a child I really disliked my birthday so close to Christmas. It didn’t feel like it’s own special day. It was like a warm up to the big day of Christmas. I purposely tried for a summer baby with baby no.1 because of this - and was lucky.

My birthday is Christmas Day. It was my due date and I arrived on time. I hated ut growing up & I hate it now. Although, I love Christmas & the festivities.

I'm a twin and our birthday is 19th December. We've never had joint presents. Always been spoilt 🙈

Excellent point. Google luck I hope all goes well for you

My lo is Christmas day birthday, never had a joint
Present. They love it :-) it's madness but good fun

@PuppaDontPreach is right, after 2 early miscarriages/CPs I’m not bothered when mine is due. It happens to be August, the month I didn’t really want before but turns out I don’t care I just want this baby to stick and be healthy

My sister is an early december child and she loves it, she also loves Christmas. So getting her a christmas themed gift for her birthday is a win win.

DC3 was due on Christmas Day… born 9th Jan!

My DC was born 23rd December.They're now in their 30s and have never had a joint birthday/Christmas present.

Think your dates might be off.

Anyway, both my kids have Christmassy birthdays.

Pros-
off school
off work
it's a fun time of year anyway
not a bad time to be born in the school year

Cons-
you need to make an effort to carve out the birthday time in the midst of all the other celebrations
Now DS is 18 he wants to spend his birthday out with his friends but we generally go away for Christmas, so there's always a bit of last minute dashing.

Never had an issue with people doing joint presents.

The main thing I think is that it honestly doesn't matter. Hope I can express this without sounding too pious but I had very clear ideas about good and bad times to be born when I started TTC. Two MCs later the idea of worrying about something like that just seemed laughable and my only concern was having a successful pregnancy (which I was lucky enough to do twice). There are pros and cons to every time of year and you can make your child's birthday special whether it's Christmas Day or Midsummer's Day, so don't worry about timing. Good luck with it all.

A baby with a due date of Christmas Day would be conceived on 20th March. Not sex on 20th March but conception which is when the egg is fertilised so just after ovulation

If you have sex in four weeks, the due date is 12th nov.

I was conceived around 9-12th February and was born in very early November. I was 2 weeks early but still would have been in November not December. I think your app is wrong.

@BeaKind my birthday is in June and I’ve had joint birthday/Christmas presents for big presents. 😂

A baby conceived now, if full term, will be born in October.

Wow @ShowOfHands when’s your birthday? 33 years and I’ve never had one!

So sorry! Was replying to a completely different thread ! I've reported

Never had a joint present with Christmas (it’s not a thing)

I had lots of joint presents as a child (it's definitely a thing)!

I love having a Christmas birthday.

II’m a Xmas eve baby and I love it. Never had a joint present with Christmas (it’s not a thing). Such a happy time of year and everyone always wants to celebrate.

I wanted to avoid a January birthday for my baby though as thought it was a depressing month, then when the time came we thought ‘should we really be stopping ttc? This might be our month. And it was!). I was due 26th Jan and baby was 2 weeks late!

I know a lot of babies that have been early (one was 8 weeks and I know two that have been nearly 4 weeks early). Due dates are such huge estimates. I wouldn’t put it off now personally.

My birthday is the 22nd Dec and my son's is the 31st, I hate it! Always feel stressed about it all, can't enjoy new years eve, I always try and make the birthday more special as I always felt like my birthday was overshadowed by Xmas. Saying that, I wouldn't put off TTC as chances are it's not going to happen straight away.

Those dates don't quite add up - I conceived early April and had a late December baby at full term

Can't comment yet on whether it's a great time, it makes for a very busy end of year but always off work / school (when time comes)

I think your app is wrong, if you conceive next month you won’t have a Christmas baby, that would be March/April conception