Half birthdays??

[Sofiegiraffe]

Is this a thing now? I'm seeing it more and more on my social media - people celebrating their babies turning 6 months old and marking the occasion with cake and presents as though it's an actual birthday. A quick Google reveals lots of "half birthday" cakes and banners etc.

Am I missing something? My baby turns 6 months shortly so I'm just wondering if I'd be a terrible mother to not celebrate her "half birthday"?!

Bonkers! I mean technically harmless but bonkers. If people judge you for not doing it then they are bonkers and you're better off not knowing them. Can guarantee you won't do it for subsequent children (or you'd spend your entire life planning birthdays).

I do see that it has its place for Dec/Jan birthdays but since you've said yours is approaching 6 months soon you'd just be doubling down on Christmas. Which is even more bonkers.

Did I mention its bonkers? (And assuming you have some friends/family, you'll realise at your bubs first Christmas exactly why its so bonkers to add ANOTHER gift giving session on top of the two existing annual ones).

@herculesoffline ignore @Rosehip10 I’ve just advanced searched them and the amount of times they ask in threads whether PP are from a working/middle/upper class backgrounds is insane. They obviously have a problem.

My kids are in their twenties now. On their half birthdays I made a single Victoria sponge, cut it in half and stacked the two halves to make a "half cake" The child whose half birthday it wasn't was given a tube of Smarties or buttons to decorate it.
We ate the cake as pudding. It was the same amount of effort and expense as an apple crumble, but a lot more fun.

It was a fun, cheap, easy family thing. No presents, no he else involved, no social media, just something we all enjoyed.

How ridiculous. It's almost at the point of Alice In Wonderland. 'Happy Unbirthday'

I know a few parents who had children born on Christmas Day who celebrate a half year on June 25th

@ChipsAndKetchup

I know someone that writes certificates every month for their kids birthday. '7 months old today' etc. Puts it all over Facebook.

Really quite strange.

I've seen lots of this as well. They also buy baby grows to put them in next to their X month old certificate for the picture. Our wasteful society gets even more wasteful and ridiculous. They will be celebrating weekly next.

DS was born within a week of Christmas and when he was little I bought him half-birthday presents. A 6m old is very different to a week old baby, very different to a 1 year old, and very different to a 2 year old. After that the development gaps calmed down and we have DS2 part-way through the year so we buy outdoor items then.

It was just clustering things that DS needed part-way through the year and giving on one day rather than steadily drip buying over the summer anyway. No parties or social media bragging.

If he really wanted an outdoor activity party, we'd do it in June, but that would replace a winter party.