To plan not to have a Christmas baby?

[XanaduBubbles]

My partner and I are going to start trying for our second in the new year, however I think that if we don't get pregnant right away (before February) we should wait until May to avoid having a Christmas / New Year baby, basically because I've known friends with birthdays around then and they always resent it (fewer presents, people forget, nothing to look forward to the rest of the year, total first world problems I know).

Aibu thinking like this? Am I just over thinking?

Not unreasonable.My first born is one week before Xmas and I can't stand it.Its hard for people to attend his party as such a busy period,presents come joint Xmas bday and he is overwhelmed by two big days in such a short period.Also when I was due to deliver I was concerned re lack of staff in hospital over the Xmas week,it's drastically less than a normal week.

Not unreasonable. We wanted an autumn baby so knew we had to ttc Feb/March. So we did. It ensured I wasn't pregnant over festive period, so could enjoy a drink, and child would be one of the oldest in their class.
I appreciate we were lucky and it doesn't work out for everyone. But if all's well there's no reason why you can't plan your pregnancies as you wish. A lot of my teacher friends do this to maximise their mat leave

Hated my birthday (between Christmas and New Year) when I was younger. I eventually started having a fake birthday, which still works even though I'm not that bothered now.

My birthday is very close to Christmas and I've never liked it. OH and I thought we'd try and avoid late December / early January when we started ttc. Then we struggled to conceive and realised we didn't care when it was born. Nothing wrong with feeling this easy but be sensitive to others.

I still cannot believe that when we are talking about the life of a child that considerations about how many presents they are going to get is a major consideration regarding when that child should be born

But in reality - the time of year a child is born doesn't really matter at all - if you have the ability to 'choose' (as in, likely to conceive quickly etc) then most of the reasons of timing are going to be somewhat shallow.

I'm pregnant with unplanned number 3 so timing didn't come into it for us. BUT if I were to TTC again, I would ideally TTC within 2 certain months of the year - because it means that the two months where my company work out your average earnings for full pay maternity pay would fall over our annual bonus period - so maternity pay would be up by a huge wedge. That's probably a really shallow reason to time it but there's always a huge amount of babies born at work within the same period so i'm obviously not the only person it occurs to!

My birth day is close to Christmas and I love it. It's a great time of year and no one has ever forgotten it. My daughters is even closer and we are planning on making it a special day just for her. I don't think it's a problem, babies arrive when they arrive!

DD was born on Christmas Eve. Was a bit worried when I realized the due date. She loves her birthday. We manage to keep it separate from Christmas. It's not that hard. Then in June we have a special treat day just to spread it out a bit.
If she wasn't born on the 24th she would be the person she is. She'd be someone different. The date really doesn't matter. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I have an early Jan birthday. I do very well out of the sales :)