How have I only just realised this?

[ColdemortReturns]

I'm 40.
I've just realised that I was born bang on, to the date, 9 months after my grandmas 50th birthday.
She had a huge party, I've seen the photos.
I was born on my due date.
My parents had a good time didn't they?
Baaaaaaahhhhhhh. Can never look at those photos again.

[LakeGeneva]

I've heard before that there are more babies born in May and September than in other months due respectively to Xmas/summer holiday woohoos. Don't know if that's true though.

[MrsKoala]

@Sunsetdawn

I know exactly when one of mine was conceived.
I also know that my brother was conceived as a result of our parents having a birthday shag.
It's quite horrifying to think of your parents having sex really isn't it?

No. Not at all. I see them as a normal human couple. I’ve never felt odd about it. Obviously i don’t want to hear or see them, or anyone else for that matter and fortunately never have. But I know they still do it - dads 76 and mum’s 71 - and good for them! I just don’t get the weirdness around it all.

[orangenasturtium]

When I had my PFB, 75% of the babies in my NCT class had due dates either in the last week of January or a month later in February. All bank holiday babies...

[BikeRunSki]

DS was due at the end of September. He was actually born 3 weeks early, on the busiest night of the year so far in maternity ward (it was also a full moon). They shut the door behind us abs said “we know what you do at Christmas”.

[thosetalesofunexpected]

@ProudAuntie76

" I like your Cool story,😊

Its quiky, different,original, I haven't heard of that type of thing happening in courting Couples"😕

[Mseddy]

I'm due (touch wood all goes OK) my ivf baby in September. If anyone attributed it to a drunk fumble at Christmas I would be livid. It was a dark and scary alcohol free Christmas of wondering if my body would finally let me be a mother.

[SenorFrog]

My conception date worked out to be exactly 9 months after England won the World Cup. My dad told me when I was 19.

[TooManyDinosaurs1]

If you were born on your due date you will have been conceived about 2 weeks after your grandma’s party.

[SenorFrog]

I mean my conception date was the night if the World Cup win, not 9 months later. Aw, you know what I mean, lol

[Chasingsquirrels]

@Santaiscovidfree

My dd's is 25th September!!

I was trying to work out the significance of that, as my dc is 24th Sep. Then realised Christmas from a later post.

Doesn't work for me as my LMP was 4/3 or 4 Jan and his due date had been 18th Oct.

[MsVestibule]

One of my DC was due on 28 September, definitely conceived on 5 January, so nowhere near a Christmas baby.

We're pregnant (conception date to due date) for 38 weeks, which is about 8 months and 3 weeks. I consider myself reasonably well educated, but I didn't know until I was pregnant that they count the first day of your LMP as the first day of your pregnancy! I'd always thought it was your assumed ovulation date 🤷‍♀️.

[TurquoiseDragon]

My late MIL (a lovely lady, unlike her son, my ex) definitely had a twinkle in her eye when she said that everyone assumed she was a premature baby, born 6 months after the wedding day. She'd have been 91 this year.

[waterlego]

My DD’s birthday is 25th Sept. Her due date was 18th though. However, I’m certain that she was conceived on 24th, 25th or 26th Dec!

[RocketHog]

I was a live-in nanny for a year in my twenties. Both kids had birthdays within days of each other. When Mr's birthday came around I realised that it was within a few days of being exactly nine months before the children's birthday week.

Made me laugh to myself that both had been conceived during his birthday bonk, and also sort of made sense as Mr and Mrs could barely stand each other. I'd been there three months when she confessed to me she was having an affair, thanks love, and they were separated and divorcing a year later.

Possibly outing but it was 30 years ago so I guess it could be a slim chance that Miss Child is on here recognising the family dynamic.

[florafoxtrot]

Stop the homeschooling maths!

[kwiksavenofrillsusername]

DS1 was concieved on my birthday weekend away. I wonder if he'll work that one out one day! DS2 is an early-September birthday, after drunken post-Xmas party shennanigans. The midwives on the ward said they dread September, as it's always a busy month.

I also have a ridiculous amount of relatives with birthdays in November. Everyone in my family needs to stop shagging on Valentine's day because November is massively expensive.

[Esspee]

My mother was very prim and proper. In hospital, after having me, the matron made a big deal about asking everyone where they had been for The Fair - the traditional annual holiday. Mum was terribly embarrassed as it was approx. 9 months before.

[Whatever9999]

Much nicer thought than I had when I worked out that at 3weeks early, even counting back from my due date my Mum wasn't quite 16 when she got pregnant, and my Dad was in his early 30s. I know things where very different then and they were still together nearly 50 years later, bit it still makes me feel a bit yuck.

[Cosyjimjamsforautumn]

DPs obviously thoroughly enjoyed spring bank holiday in 1964. As my gfather and DF both had birthdays in the same week it must be a family tradition

[always2ndbest]

If the conception calculator is correct, I was conceived around my dads 21st birthday, 23/7/77...... ewwwww!

[RedToothBrush]

@Floralnomad

I think late September birthdays are more likely to be parents planning on their children being the oldest in the year . We didn’t plan our first , other than saying we wanted a baby , got pregnant straightaway and had a January baby . With the second I planned for a June / July / August baby ( for practicalities of looking after our horses) and that worked .

The most popular week of the year to be born is the 3rd week in September - that ties roughly with a Christmas or New Year conception. Part of it is actually put down to Christmas Parties and not being as careful rather than considered planning.

I had a planned CS. I could choose a day in August or a day in September. Guess which I chose.

[MolyHolyGuacamole]

I was conceived on parents' honeymoon 🙃

[NothingIsWrong]

My girls' birthdays are 5 days apart, exactly 9 months after my birthday...

[Pukkatea]

@LakeGeneva my DP is an actuary so spends all day with life statistics, and he says this is true - however it doesn't get attributed to alcohol and Christmas parties and more people being stuck indoors with nothing to do over Christmas and early January.

[littlepattilou]

@ThumbWitchesAbroad

I used to work in an antenatal testing lab and I can assure you that we had busier times that could be attributed to Christmas and New Year, to Valentine's Day, and to the clocks going back. Very obvious peaks dating back to those time periods!

I don't get this - or many other posts here. According to what many people are saying here, it appears most people only shag on Valentines Day, New Year's Eve, Christmas, and their birthday, and that they are at the most fertile time of the month on that day too.

Bizarre.