9/11 birthday

[ThisIsntOver]

Would it bother anyone if their baby was born today? 9/11? Clearly there's not much you can do about it but I am almost due and just wondering... Tricky week really because if you dodge 9/11 you might get Friday 13th!

No, but that's because I didn't lose anyone on 9/11 or know anyone who did. Then it might be another matter.

Although, it would make a good history lesson when they are older.

That wasn't meant to be insensitive, sorry if it seemed it.

A lot of people have 9/11 birthdays. Millions. Whatever day your lovely baby arrives is the best of all possible dates.

To be honest I didn't even realise it was 9/11 today-I mean I know it's the 11th but I didn't remember the significance of the date.
Without meaning to sound uncaring, 9/11 is just one of the dates that a horrendous tragedy had occurred, if you look hard enough I'd expect you'd find something bad that had happened on most dates.

There are approximately 19.3 million people with a birthday of 11th September. As SmallBee says there have been enough dreadful tragedies that lots of days of the year on which people share their birthday with the anniversary of some dreadful tragedy. Life goes on - and celebrating the birth of a new life without reference to the terrorist atrocities carried out on that date is one extra way to stand up to terrorism.

I worried for a bit about this as I am being induced for DC2 today. But as others have said, it's just another date at the end of the day?
Come to think of it, my family seem to all have our 'important dates' on internationally important dates - DH's birthday is on valentines day, DC1 on fireworks day, and so on, so for DC2 to be born today may just fit the theme?

Would you worry if your child was born on Boxing Day? Because 1/4 of a million people died in the 2004 Tsunami.....

Yes, I was thinking exactly that myself CoolStory.

It's very true that for non-American children born now (with no direct connection to a British victim if 9/11 obviously) it'll just be a date in history.

To British people 9/11 is ninth November.

Today is the eleventh of Sept .

I know it's weird but to me 9/11 was a day of unimaginable horror for those involved & utter helplessness & sorrow for those if us looking on from afar.

If I had a baby today it would be my lovely baby's day 11th Sept .

Yes, that's a good way of looking at it. Of course, I know we don't say 9/11, it was just a shorthand. You're right though, the 11th of September sounds very different.

I know a boy who was born ON 9/11 itself, about an hour before the strikes. The only effect it has had is that everyone is able to work out exactly how old he is and can remember his birthday more easily. I have to look up my diary to check his sister's birthday.

Ds1 was born on 7 July 2005 just before the bombs went off in London. To us, the day is special, but we always think of those killed too. It's just another day.

It's my ds's birthday today. The only problem I have with it is I can never write it down right. I instinctively put his d.o.b as 9/11/09 instead of 11/9/09!

Wasn't being critical OP ! More that 9/11 is the shorthand as you say for that dreadful day and in a way being able to say 11th Sept keeps it seperate somehow.

One of those awful days that are fixed in your mind "What I was doing whne 9/11 happened" I will always remember it clearly.

It is just another day and wouldn't bother me. My best friend got married on the 11th September 7 years ago in the USA which some people did find odd but was the date her and her fiancé chose.

It is my birthday today.

Sept 11 2001 won't go down as the best birthday ever, but it hasn't spoilt subsequent ones.

It's DHs birthdy but to him it is 11/9 (or 11/09 if you want to be pedantic, which he can be.) Always has been and always will be.

It's DS's birthday today. It does not bother me at all.

My niece was born on Fri 13th, and now I'm 39 weeks so could possibly give birth on Fri 13th also. It's quite spooky if both my Parents grand children were born on Fri 13th, as I was myself born on Halloween.

That would be spooky PinkApple. Is your surname Addams by any chance?

Its my birthday today as well VerkyVerky Happy birthday. And agree with you, although i looked through tv last night and lots of channels had programmes about 9/11 last night which is sad.

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My DS is 18 on friday, he loves the idea of his 18th birthday being on Friday 13th 2013.

Colleague turned 18 on 9/11 (don't really know her so no idea how she feels about it) and now turning 30.

Oh Bruffin, I had overlooked that this one would be Fri 13th 2013!! Is that a bad thing or somehow brilliant? Yikes, anyway, not that long left of 9/11 now so I've probably dodged it.

My birthday is 7/7 and I do know someone who died (not well). I don't much like telling people my birthday now but that's my issue, nobody has said anything. For your DC it'll be one of those dates way back when.

thisisntover no it's not Addams but I'm frantically bouncing on the ball whilst drinking raspberry leaf tonight and tomorrow to evict baby so we can have an interesting family story, plus some good Halloween dress up parties in a few years