Advice on Christmas Day Birthdays

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My DS2 was born on Christmas day 2006 (three weeks early, couldn't wait to see santa!). I know he is a bit young to know whats happening this year but just wanted to ask anyone who has a Christmas birthday, what is good/bad about having a birthday on Christmas Day? How do you like people to celebrate it and make it special? I'd love to hear your views so that I can make his birthday special as he gets older.

Hey, thats the same as me .... except LO was born on the 22nd 3 weeks early.

Dont really remember having Christmas day in 2006 ? .... did it happen ???....

I think it happened as I had a mince pie on the maternity ward afterwards! He arrived at 7:10am on Christmas morning.

It must have then !

I dont know really. We are not planning on putting up christmas cards, just his birthday cards.
MIL has already said she'll be buying him something in the summer, which I suppose is quite nice.

I was going to have a little party for him a couple of weeks before christmas. Just because his brother had a party for his first birthday so I wanted to do the same for DS2. I thought about having a half birthday for him every summer when hes older but I'm not sure if it will actually happen. I just feel sorry for him having everyone else opening pressies on his birthday.

A frine dof mine whose birthday was on 28th December used to celebrate her birthday in July, another friend and his brother, 2 years younger, were both born on Christmas day, they had christmas presents in morning and then lunch and the birthday presents and cake in afternoon or was it the other way round, my sil's nephew is alos Christmas day and I know they celebrate in summer.

My dd's birthday is December 21st - the Winter Solstice! We've always celebrated her birthday - it's fun to have a trip to the pantomime or soemthing like that, but she also has a half birthday on midsummer day - June 21st. This is usually some sort of outing with her two oldest friends, and she gets a present from us - no other presents. It was useful when she was little - not a lot of use having a paddling pool or a scooter in December! - and this year it was very convenient to give her her mobile phone when she was 11 and a half!

I have a christmas birthday boy who will be 5 this year and to be honest for the first fe years it wasn't a problem for him he just went with the flow but last year and this year he is annoyed that christmas and his birthday are one in the same and just this morning he asked for a party to be held at the end of January so it could be seen as different.

I do try to get a birthday cake and wrap his birthday presents up in different paper but it does all merge in one. Thie thing that annoys me the most is the people who buy combine presents just because it falls on the same day. They don't do it for any of my others kids so why just this one......in laws are you listening yet again.

For me it seems like yesterday not 5 years ago and we still have the present given by the hospital. The only other baby bron that day was born in the car park so mine didn't make the local paper!

Do the party after Christams and not before if the kids have loads of Christmas parties going on since. It just gets lost in Christmas

Thanks Slalomsuki, I will do it mid/end jan then. I will tell everyone about it before christmas to avoid the two in one gifts. We were in the local paper, I agreed to it for him so that one day he can look back at it but the last thing I wanted to do on Boxing day was have my photo taken!

My dad's bday is on xmas day
we always had his bday in the morning and xmas in the afternoon.

We would obv have our stockings first thing but xmas pressies under tree after lunch.

Gotta get on with some work now. Thanks for your responses and if anyone else has any good ideas keep them coming!

Dd was born on christmas day 2002 (Slalomsuki- same day!)

We've done things differently each year so far

At first we did birthday in the morning, then a birthday lunch, and Christmas in the afternoon with Christmas dinner in the evening.

That hasn't really worked for the last couple of years, though, because when she sees her stocking from Santa, it's v. difficult to say "no, you'll have to wait 'til afternoon to open those pressies"

We now combine it all, and even open a birthday pressie or 2 on Christmas Eve, and keep some over for boxing day.

I still think she misses out a bit, though, so we only gave her a small b'day pressie last year, then bought a proper pressie (a bike) on her 'half birthday' in june.

I have to disagree with Slalomsuki about a party, though. last year, for the first time I organised a party for dd with all her friends (hired a local community hall) and although it was on the 22nd december, everyone (bar 1) attended. Parents said it filled the gap between pre-school finishing, and Christmas Day, nicely!

We don't have Christmas birthdays, but a couple of friends do, so was thinking if one of my DCs had a Christmas Day birthday, might consider having a "half-birthday" party in the summer. But don't have the problem so not sure if that would work in reality!

I did try a combined party with his brother a couple of years ago in April but it wasn't the same and felt guilty about inviting people to a combined party when they didn't know ds2 but knew ds1. This year I will do a party for him in January.

Betty what a coincidence! We seem to have a lot of presents but they are not differentiated between birthday and Xmas after a while. I have three kids 6 and under so can you imaging the cost and volume of moulded plastic at Christmas

I don't have any Christmas birthdays in my family, but mine is at the beginning of December and DD's is at the end of January. Some family members still insist on combining pressies for both and whilst I'm not bothered for me, it does annoy me for DD. I can imagine how difficult it must be for parents of children born on Christmas day to have to try and recognise both.

I was actually due on CD but am pleased that I was born before, because I am a bit extra about birthdays!

My birthday is on Christmas Eve which is bad enough. When I was little it didn;t seem to matter as both days sort of merged into one mega-present bonanza !!
Now I am older it annoys me that I can't go out & celebrate without xmas crackers, renditions of 'Jingle Bells' everywhere and roast turkey dinners !!

oh & I hate birthday pressies wrapped in Xmas paper and birthday cards sent in the same envelope as Xmas cards !

DD1 was due on 24th dec when I was pg we decided if she had been born on xmas day[she came the 16th] we would have had xmas morning then from 2pm onwards would have been her birthday.
Only thing I will say is last year she was one and we really struggled to find nice bday cards with xmas ones taking over so am going to buy her 2nd bday card in a couple of weeks and dd2s 1st bday card[she is a jan 5th baby]

The only Christmas birthday that I have encountered was MIL's. Not sure what she did as a child, but as mum, they celebrated her birthday in the evening - the pudding after supper would be birthday cake, and then she would receive presents. The birthday wasn't mentioned before that time, so Christmas was kept 'pure'.

DD's school friend has her birthday on Christmas Day. Although her birthday is acknowledged by close family, she actually celebrates properly with party, etc. on her half birthday - June 25th.