Does your child's sleep pattern correlate with the time of their birth?

[BellaBearisWideAwake]

I've just read in a novel that it's an old wives' tale that whether you're a night owl or morning lark is determined by the time of day you are born.

Obviously it's a load of nonsense.

Or is it?!

I present my utterly compelling evidence:

DS1, born 01.17, stays up for hours each evening and was a pain to get to sleep right from birth.

DS2, born 20.15 also dreadful sleeper as a baby, but doesn't stay up as late as his brother now.

I was born in the morning and I'm definitely a morning person...
..

The plot thickens.

I have a colleague whose DC was born after they moved here from the US and, aged about 3, the DC slept till noon and didn't go to bed till the small hours. The colleague claimed this was because the DC had been in utero in a different time zone so was now stuck in that time zone.
I struggled not to snort with laughter as my DCs were born in a very different time zone and slept normal UK hours. I did not say "your DC is having you for a mug".

My first woke up a few times in the first few months for a feed at 3.34am, the time he was born, doesn't correlate with sleep patterns now though.

Can't remember with my second....

DD was born 9:33pm

Shes an early riser. Always has been.

Im 7:23am and hate the mornings 😬

My dc was born at 7.30pm and funnily enough that's the time we normally put her to bed and she sleeps throughout the night like a dream and wakes up roughly around 7.30am.

She's 4 years old now and is just a brilliant sleeper

Does it fuck!!!

Uh no never heard that before?

Born at 3.36pm slept loads as a newborn then from 3 months slept roughly 11-7 then from about 6 months to present at 19 months sleeps 1 hour after lunch and 8-8

My DTs were born at 21.30 and 21.45- one is a persistent early riser, 5.30-6am. The other will sleep til lunch!

I'd never heard it before reading this book.

And it turns out the man who liked to go to bed late in the novel, was in fact concealing a secret and doing something else. So even the novel doesn't support the theory.