Anybody else due any minute (or anybody out there who has had a baby over Christmas)? I'm SCARED 😬

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Basically that. I'm due any minute and have been doing everything to bring the labour on ahead of Christmas and none of it has worked.

I wouldn't care but our older son is three and a half and this is the first time he's properly understood Christmas. I'm scared I am going to ruin it for him by going into labour tonight or something 😬 I'm being very non-committal about when Father Christmas might turn up.

So please tell me your Christmas baby stories, or join me in impending Christmas parenthood!

My neighbour gave birth to her second child on Christmas day a number of years ago.
Her oldest thought a baby sister was the best present ever, and the family have happily been splitting the 25 December - moring Christmas, afternoon birthday - for years.

Your oldest is young enough not to remember Christmas before it was enmeshed with birthdays. Let nature take its course. You could have a Janurary baby yet!

Hopefully, he'll take it as a positive if a baby appears on Christmas Day! The lack of control is making me really anxious though 😬 If I can get tomorrow out of the way, I'll be happy to have the baby at any point then.

I was due on the 19th. I spent Christmas Day at my doula’s house, as my husband had to go back to work as his vacation was finished.

They started with the gel on Boxing Day, which didn’t work. DS was delivered by elective c-section on the 27th. All 10lbs 11oz of him.

I've had my baby this morning! We will be in hospital until tomorrow and we have a 4 year old so it'll be a bit different this year but will make the most of it and make it special. Good luck!

Oh bless you my older son is 19 on boxing day Xmas day 2006 was spent in labour ,my xmas dinner was sausage and chips in the hospital canteen 🤣
He was born at 5.50 am On boxing i hope everything goes well.

I was due to have DS2 on the 23rd. I went into labour overnight on the 26th and he was born on the 27th. The maternity ward was blissfully quiet as no one wants to have a baby over Christmas 😬 so I had my own room.

The only downside was that I was too pregnant to really enjoy Christmas dinner 🤣

I was taken in on Christmas eve and stayed until the birth on 27th December. Christmas dinner in hospital was lovely. Baby wasn't due until March though so different scenario.

My eldest was born on Christmas Day. I spent the whole pregnancy stressing about it, but actually it’s worked out well. I think if you’re going to have a birthday around that time it may as well be the day itself! Everyone remembers and comments on it. Granted we didn’t have a child already so our younger one has just had to fit in but you just mould your traditions to fit the birthday. I know others who had a baby on the 25th who celebrate it on a different day eg Dec 15th but I never wanted to do that and DC agrees. We have changed what we do over the years in line with what she wants so I have had to learn to be flexible and not fixed on how things ‘should’ be done at Christmas. Which is no bad thing really. Honestly, it will be fine and I can guarantee that the only thing your older child about it is that’s the day they got a new baby brother/sister. I can relate to how you’re feeling though - so take it from me as someone who has been there! Good luck with the delivery. You might even get in the local paper (I didn’t!) 😊

It was a crappy Christmas dinner that day I will admit. But I made up for it on 26th with a McDs breakfast on the postnatal ward 😋

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It was a crappy Christmas dinner that day I will admit. But I made up for it on 26th with a McDs breakfast on the postnatal ward 😋

The best advice I can give you if baby comes tomorrow is - be positive about it. Tell your kid and everyone else who says (in earshot) ‘oh what a rubbish day for a birthday’ - that it’s actually really special and great fun.

We have lots of Christmas babies in our family including Christmas Day. My own child’s was yesterday.

Honestly try not to stress. Baby will come when ready. Plans will adjust. All will be well.

Eldest was due (and arrived) on the 20th. I was seeing my GP for antenatal care and he kept muttering "this one's coming on Christmas Eve, I just know it!".
I those days the GP did a home visit when you came out of hospital and I think he was trying to jinx it.

DD2 was born on Christmas Day when DD1 was 3. I had the same worries and just made sure my Sis was lined up to take care of her and spoil her. At that age, they honestly won't worry that Christmas Day doesn't go as planned. So what if they end up opening some of their stocking with a relative and some with you in hospital later.
I had DD2 at home in the early hours of Christmas Day so luckily was there when DD1 woke but honestly, she was so excited it was Christmas that she barely acknowledged the current stream of visitors, a midwife who came to check on us just after midday nor her new baby sister!
Try to chill. Hate to say it but the baby will come when they decide to. Enjoy the time with your eldest

I second never telling them that it's rubbish to have a Christmas birthday. It isn't until people try to convince you over and over again that it is!

My brilliant big ds arrived two weeks early at 5.30am on Christmas morning twenty years ago! Dd was also three and a half at the time.

I sort of knew on Christmas Eve. Just felt weird and then my waters went 2am Christmas morning. I tried to sit it out as I was devastated at missing dd get up to Santa having been but was sensible and went in - he arrived 45 mins later.

I was lucky my mum and dad came to sit with dd and she was so excited about her toys that she didn’t even miss me!

Ds has always loved having a Christmas Day birthday. He thinks it’s really special and I’m currently blowing up balloons!

Good luck and happy Christmas.

Congratulations!

Me and my siblings just love to have babies at Christmas - my son is 13th Dec, my nephew is boxing day and my niece is 27th Dec. 😂

Huge congrats!!

This is excellent advice because that is what everybody keeps saying 😬

I love the idea of a MaccyD in the maternity ward! Good shout.

My SIL was due 21st and is still hanging on. She reckons she’ll be late 😂

As an obstetric anaesthetist I beg to differ haha the rates of reported reduced fetal movements rockets before Xmas!

Goodluck op!

I don't think I saw another woman in labour/with a baby the whole time I was there! Must have been a quiet year 😊

My relative is in labour as we speak! They’re VERY Christian so I bet they’re loving it! Aw. I think it’s nice. If my kid was born on Xmas day I always thought I’d do a summer party for them around 25th June 😍

Did you make it past the day? X

Did you make it past the day? X