Your Birthday month

[No17CherryTreeLane]

Do you like it?
Would you prefer another if you'd had a choice?
A few January born in my family and they categorically say it's the worst!
November babies aren't very keen on theirs either.
They say either side of December is not good as obviously everything is geared towards, and dominated by Christmas.

I'm July, which is fine by me now but I remember not being happy as a teenager as I was obviously one of the youngest in the school year, and the last to do everything - especially the most important driving lessons and passing your test!

I hate my birthday and prefer everyone to ignore it. A Christmas birthday would be ideal for me so it did get overshadowed. But it's June. The total opposite.

Some years it is the same day as Father's Day which takes the heat off it.

Oh I'm a late November birthday and I love it

It kinda suits my vibe, dark aesthetic, kinda moody

November reminds me of wine, jazz and rnb music, of cooking and being cozy

Im not a troll 😄😄 just genuinely think this

My dd is an April baby which for me means spring snd new beginnings, which explains her meaning to me xx

January birthday for me! Used to hate it, but I don't care that much any more.

People skint after Christmas, crap weather, presents too close together blah, blah, blah!

SIL's is Christmas day and DH is 30th Dec, so theirs are worse!

End of March, I quite like it, by the time of my birthday brighter days are coming!

Mine is Bonfire Night, so I always enjoyed it when I was younger, it felt like the celebrations lasted all day and night.
I’m an old grouch now though and I hate fireworks, because they’ve heard all the time now.

Love my late November birthday.
Lots of Christmas stuff in the air and things to do, yet far enough away. As a child there was usually a new Harry Potter film released too

I meant to add in the OP, (but got distracted by my September born DC yabbering away at me)
If you're not a fan of yours, did you actively try and avoid certain months to diminish the chances of your DCs being born at a particular time of year?

To answer my own question, we didn't as I had quite a few miscarriages unfortunately, and in any case both of my pesky kids were born 3 weeks earlier than their official due date.
The September one was due in October.

Mid Feb. Usually duff weather. Grew up in South Wales & my parties regularly got cancelled for snow.

January birthday here, absolutely hate it. DPs birthday is January too and hates it too. Just want to ignore it.
That said we weren't mindful of dates whilst TTC. Being in our mid-30s, we were just grateful of any pregnancy coming along regardless of potential birth dates. As it stands the 2 DCs have a mid autumn birthday and late winter birthday, so not too bad.

I’m July too, I love having a July birthday, agree re the school related stuff, but once you’re into nights out partying territory, nobodies birthday night out is as well attended and memorable as the beautiful long summery July nights out!

I also feel that July birthday for me splits the year roughly in half and makes a nice marker in mind of time passing!

Mine is early September and I love it, only issue was birthday parties at school, if the invites went out before school broke up the party was long forgotten before then, if the invites went out upon the return to school then it was too short notice.

August, so I was always off school on my birthday! And often on our hols with my parents. Wouldn't change it at all.

I'm early October and I like it! It's starting to get into my favourite season and I always liked being on the older side of the school year.

DS's are mixed, ones Nov, other Dec. November one is happy enough, also likes being older in the school year. Almost Christmas birthday DS isn't so impressed. He's far enough away that it isn't actually Christmas, but he regularly used to have friends missing at parties as they were off to the panto etc. I used to have to do a save the date kind of thing 😂

New years Eve birthday here
Everyone is skint after Christmas
When I was a kid I got presents wrapped in Christmas paper
I'm 60 now and don't bother
Always get myself a reduced Yule log nowadays though
This year was nice as middle DS and DP took me out for a meal

Expensive time for me though
DS1 6 weeks after Christmas and DS2 6 weeks before Christmas

Another (early) July baby here. I love the long, warm, summery days. I can have a BBQ or eat outside at a restaurant. Summer is a great time to have a birthday as a kid or an adult. It's also a good long way away from Christmas, so presents are spaced nicely throughout the year.

I was never into partying (very shy and introverted), and my parents couldn't afford for me to learn how to drive, so I was never affected by that. Apparently I wasn't ready for school, as I was taken out at the October half term, then returned in January. But I think my mum conveniently forgets we'd just moved house to a new city a week before I started school. I was fine after that, though a bit socially naive and immature.

I never stopped TTC (long time trying for DC1, and baby rabies for DC2) to avoid a particular month, but I do pity anyone with a late Nov - early January birthday. Miserable weather, short days, and far too close to Christmas.

My own kids are mid March (still a bit too close to Christmas imo) and early September (not so bad, but it's still a long time between Christmas and her birthday). They are also of the pesky variety and came a few weeks before their due dates, though still within the due date month. I think my March baby would always have been a March baby (though knowing him he would have deliberately been born a minute after midnight on 1st April), but I was convinced my September baby would have been an October baby.

Mines today and I've already had, oh its so soon after Christmas etc etc
Dds is early March, dh is late March.

Nothing outdoorsy is open but at least we're over and done with three months in.

August and I wouldn't change it. A little annoying being the youngest in the year but not something that ever actually bothered me! Always the summer holidays for my birthday and weather generally okay.

I have heard people constantly complain about December birthdays (and Jan), so I did make sure our DC weren't born then.

Another January person here and I hate it. Would love October instead.

Mine's August, and I hated it as a child since it always fell right in the middle of the holidays so planning a birthday party was near impossible! We were nearly always away for it which always made me a bit sad because I just wanted to be at home with my friends, but I think that says more about our family holidays than my birthday.

I don't really celebrate it as an adult, so it doesn't really matter either way now. A Hallowe'en birthday would be amazing though!

Late June birthday and I love it. Dd hates her January birthday now she's an adult. She loved it when she was a child though. She used to call it her 2nd Christmas

July too & I’m happy with that. I actually liked being one of the youngest in my year at school but I’m old enough to have left school at 16 (15 actually because of birthday) so before driving lessons & drinking became an issue.

January here. It's not the best but I don't hate it.

It's quite nice to have a little excuse to take a few days off work - gives me something to aim for when I have to go back after Xmas.

But it's inevitably poor weather so it means I can never really do anything outdoorsy, which is what I'd like.

Mine is March and I was always fine with it until I became a mum because now it seems to frequently fall the same week or even same day (twice in 10 years!) as Mother’s Day! Therefore reducing the celebration of me 😂. But I do think the worst would be a December birthday or early January. You’d generally get forgotten.