To be glad I made it to September?

[yummymumtobe]

So the whole of the pregnancy I have been hoping that baby will arrive in September (5 days past due date) as we have made it. 1 sep and no baby yet! However, is it really a disadvantage to be one of the youngest in the school year? It's a boy and i was worried about him being small, the last to be able to drive etc. I was old in my year and as a girl hated it as I always felt big and gangly!

(Please keep lighthearted, obvs the main thing is to be healthy etc but just all things being well is being young/old a disadvantage?)

Standardized tests that they take from year 3 on. I think this is national?

i'm sure it all balances out as they get older.

It's swings and roundabouts - autumn born children statistically do better the first time around but summer born children can do a year of retakes or have a year out and earn some money then still go to university at pretty much the same age as autumn borns.

As we can't predict what our children will be like or want to do I think you just have to go with the flow.

I was due on 8 sept so thought I was home and dry but dd2 showed up 3 weeks early on 21 august. she is lovely though so I have forgiven her! .

I have both sides of this, a summer born dd starting school next Monday and two boys with sept and oct birthdays. Tbh I don't think it makes a huge difference.

Ds2 (oct birthday ) is smallest in his class!

All do extremely well at school and are "advanced" in most subjects.

YANBU.

I am v jealous. DS turned two last week. His due date was 01/09 by dates and 30/08 by scan, I was desperate to hang on till Sept but he was not!

I met a boy and mum a few weeks ago, her DS turns three next week and they will be in the same year at school. It really bothers me!

I am an August baby and could read and write before I started school. Had to skip reception class as I found it too boring and spent the time with the year 1s instead, then when middle school wouldn't let me go up a year early (because I'd have been nearly 2yrs younger than the eldest child in the class), I spent a year with the head teacher doing things like reading lord of the rings etc. Was the best year of my school career!

Ended up finishing school with enough to get to Oxbridge but always felt a bit resentful that had I been that few months older, I could've gone up a year with no resistance from the local authority who judged me solely on my date of birth and not as an individual.

I was a full year younger than my peers at school (parents sent me a year early) and though I was fine academically (top of my class) socially it was incredibly tough.

I have a September-born, and I spent the last week of August crossing my legs!

Pushy parent and poor child not even born yet

This was me last year I was due 28th Aug. Really was hoping to make it to Sept so she's the oldest rather than youngest, on the other hand its an extra years nursery fees!

She was 2 weeks late arrived 3 days before DC1 started reception. Had the teacher visit whilst I was in early labour.

I was born on the 31st august so was the youngest in my year. I don't think it made any difference to how I did at school. I did well and have a very good job now.

Statistically and generally autumn borns do better at school, so yanbu. The difference is clear even in year 1, where I teach, between an august and a September born.

However- babies come when they come and you'll never know if your child would have done better/been worse off if they'd been birn at a different time so it's not really anything to worry about!

I'm delighted my son is a sept baby as summer born boys are particularly likely to struggle- again, generalising. I am a summer born and was top of the class. I dont thinkn"one size fits all" and definitely think it would be beneficial to stagger starting ages/give parents more choice.

BBC 1- inside out- all about this issue!

It's not academics I'm so worried about as think that is more a question of genetics and parental encouragement anyway. And having been to a pushy school that isn't what I want for my dc! More him being a titch or having the last to have his voice break, last to learn to drive, be allowed in the pub etc!