How was I born on the wrong day?

[PossiblyDreaming]

I’ve always thought I was born on a Sunday which always made me feel very smug as a child whenever I saw that nursery rhyme that goes “Monday’s child is fair of face” etc until it gets to Sunday’s child and says how much better kids born on a Sunday are.

Anyway, I was recently filling out some online form where I had to put in my date of birth and it came up on a calendar showing that actually I was born on a Monday. I double checked it with another calendar and, yes, I was definitely born on a Monday. I didn’t think much of it but text my mum to tell her as I thought it was mildly amusing that she’s forgotten when I was born.

Except my mum is 100% adamant that I was born on a Sunday. She remembers it specifically as she made my dad run to the church to drag my grandparents out so that they could watch my brother while he drove her to hospital. My grandparents only ever went to church on a Sunday and my dad was a teacher so if it had been a weekday he wouldn’t have been at home when my mum went into labour. It was mid October so wouldn’t have been a bank holiday. It wasn’t a long labour, I was born a couple of hours later so it wasn’t like my mum was labouring overnight and I was born the next day or anything.

My mum is 70 and fully compos mentis but she can’t get my dad or her parents to corroborate as they’re dead. She is absolutely adamant that I was born on Sunday and now thinks that my birthday was recorded incorrectly and it’s actually the day before the day that I’ve celebrated all my life 😂. I’ve got the original copy of my birth certificate and it says the date that I’ve always thought it was.

I know it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but it’s really odd. Is there any really obvious way that I’m missing that might confirm either way? Do I now celebrate my birthday the day before even though all my public records show it as being the next day?

The rhyme is actually "Wednesday's child knows no woe", the "full o" bit has been mistakenly taken from Tuesday for so long that people think it is correct. Wednesday is a good one too, in reality.

My brother was only 3 so no chance he’d remember

He might surprise you. I was 3 when my brother was born. I remember waking up and being surprised to find my Gran in the house & no sign of my Mum & Dad. I remember Dad coming home later and telling me I had a baby brother. We went to a toy shop and bought a Teddy bear and then to the hospital

I remember it all vividly & my recollections are all totally accurate 😊

The information on the certificate is obtained from the information given by the parents , whichever one registered the birth. It seems that a mistake was made at that time, and never corrected.

It seems much more likely your Dad registered the birth and put the wrong date than your mother's very detailed memory of one of the most significant moments of her life is wrong!

But at least you are fair of face! So am I, my mum tells me every year on my birthday…

It’s not inconceivable that online calendars aren’t all correct. They will be based on algorithms and the developer may have got the formula for leap days wrong for example, eg www.hermetic.ch/y2k/feb29.htm

Oh no ds was born on a Wednesday

But surely your mum, dad and grandparents would realise the date was wrong! Everyone notes the date of birth. So if they knew you were born on the 5th of may and on your first birthday everyone is celebrating the 6th you would find it weird and question it.

I was actually born on the 30th. My df went to register my birth and when he got home saw that the registrar actually wrote 31st. I have the hospital baby band to prove it too and a Cow and Gate tag with my DOB and weight on it.

Dad registered the birth wrong, happens ALL the time 😂

Which day of the week was your DB born on? I agree with a pp that your DM might easily have got your birth stories mixed up - and then cemented it in everyone's minds over the years through repetition.

I had babies around that time. I'm pretty sure I had to have something signed by the midwife with the date and time of the birth to register them so mistakes couldn't be made. I also have my babies' wristbands from the hospital as mementos. Has your mother kept yours?

Regarding the bank holiday theory: were you born in Scotland? Tatty picking holidays are mid-October, so that would be a possibility

Were you definitely looking at the right year? Because the following year would show that date on a Monday.

the calender could be wrong, it might be miscalculated?

@Cocomarine I think @Tlollj was responding to the pp who said the online day calculator could be wrong. So a bit rude there!

I once checked on one of those and got a different day.

Oo Mandela Effect maybe haha.. i think she has the day wrong, it was a long time ago and do you know that everytime you remember something, it is simply recalling the last time you remembered it, not the actual event itself so memories can be false sadly and quite easily.. plus Monday and Sunday.. i cant quite remember if my son was born on the Sunday or Monday 20 years ago but i know it was one of them

I think you can just get it wrong or misremember, when reading this thread I was just thinking when was my DD (2) born and was thinking yep definitely a Friday… just checked calendar and it was a Thursday

Did you definitely select the correct year on the online thing?

Yes I think your mother is mixing up two birth stories.

Mondays child is fair of face
Tuesdays child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go
Friday's child is loving and giving - my Friday child IS loving and giving
Saturdays child works hard for a living
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay - and my Sunday born child is indeed gay

I think it’s possible and that the midwife filling out the paperwork/doing the computer records didn’t do it till the following day and then put that days date in. It’s a mistake which happens sometimes these days but all birth entries are checked by the ward clerk now who flags up such errors. Normally just with babies born just before midnight, the computer defaults to the current day and you have to remember to manually change it.

Your mum could ask for her hospital records concerning her birth of of to collaborate the details

I’ve actually searched records for this to confirm a birth was registered on the incorrect day

@sweetbellyhigh

Dad registered the birth wrong, happens ALL the time 😂

That wouldnt explain this though, child is born on the 7th, dad goes to registrar and mistakenly says the 8th. They don't all wait a year and say oh I wonder wha date @PossiblyDreaming's birthday is, let's check the birth cetficate

It can't be that

This did actually happen to my grandmother -her father got the date wrong so she always celebrated the ‘right date’.
I actually celebrate in an etirwly different month because my exh never acknowledged any of my birthdays ever so I always felt felt humiliated on that day (especially 39th/40th/50th/ on them and when I left him I chose that day a mu ‘ birthday’ 😀