To worry about my children having the same birthday month?

[lentil88]

Sounds nuts but after some opinions as bit delicate to ask friends...

I had a miscarriage two months ago and obviously very keen to conceive again soon. Last month didn't work for us, so here we are. Problem is, if I conceive this month we would be due in August, which is the same month as my first was born.

Realise this is completely hypothetical as don't even know if I will conceive this month but hopefully the info above will make it a bit clearer about why I'm reluctant to skip a month.

Am I selfish to consider it this month? Do you have children with birthdays close together and how is it?

Thanks for reading x

I had a friend in school who had two younger twin sisters born on the same day as him! So their mother had 3 children all with the same birthday.

Was never a problem.

My children share the same birthday month and so do my brother and I. There has never been any problems with either.

Dont think birthdays in the same month matter, they are still special though it makes the month expensive.
However for schooling reasons I would avoid August, being the youngest in the year puts them at a disadvantage.
Good Luck

My first and second have a month between their birthdays, my second and third have a week between their birthdays (they were actually born on each other's due dates). It was completely chance that it worked out like that.

My children are only small, but so far we have had no issues. Each has a separate day with separate cake and presents. And when they are older we will also do separate parties. As long as each is made to feel special on their day, I can't imagine it causing too many issues.

It's fine, my 2 are just under 2 years and 3 weeks apart. They were both due the same month one was early and one late so the months are different but one shares a birthday with his grandad and just missed sharing birthday with his dad by a couple of hours. They also have aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents very close to their dates within the two months which also usually coincides with major religious festival too! A busy and expensive time of year for us!!

Mine are a month apart pretty much. Sometimes I'd wish they'd been closer so we could have had a joint birthday party for all the school friends, and hire a hall etc there were quite a few sibling groups with similar age gap and would have worked well. But at a month apart it's not possible to do one birthday either two weeks early or late. Obviously only helpful if the age gap is close mine were just over two years so close enough for that to work.

Op think about it this way, for a family of two children the odd are.
1:12 will have kids in the same month.
1:52 will have kids in the same week.
1:365 will have kids on the same day.

Most of my family have birthdays close together. My children have birthdays close together as do all of my friends! Personally I think maybe you are more fertile on certain months of your cycle which is why this happens. I haven't done any research to back it up but it often crosses my mind!

I've never considered this. My children were all born at the same time of year. It's expensive, that's it.

I have a friend who was born on Christmas Day. Her two children were born on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. It is not a problem - they have a huge celebration and it's really great fun. The family does make sure that they save up for presents through the year to avoid a lean few months afterwards.

Both mine are December the 26th and 31st. As long as they're healthy don't worry. XxxX

My children’s birthdays are 4 days apart (in august as it happens). It’s fine. It’s fun. We try to make sure we’re on holiday for both birthdays.

TTC didn’t come easy for either of them. If we’d skipped a month maybe we wouldn’t have them at all. That’s how I looked at it.

Good luck whatever you decide xx

Our birthdays are all in the same month. 10th, 23rd and 28th. I was a bit concerned that DD2 would be born on DD1s birthday but having a few weeks in between is fine.

It seems to be really common, more than you would expect, for people to have very close birthdays in one family. My dad and his brother have birthdays 2 days apart, my mum shared a birthday with her mum, my aunts birthday is the day before her dads, my husband shared a birthday with his gran and it's the day after his mums. And so on.... its not really a big deal

My friend has 2 boys a year apart both on the same day. X