Can you only fall pregnant in certain seasons depending on your own body?

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As the title says!

Many people who I know either have children with birthdays in the same months or close months, or they have birthdays close to their own siblings.

Me and my brother are both winter babies. My Fiancé and his brothers are all February and March. My mum and her sister are February and March.

Do you think that some women can only conceive during certain months/seasons/climates?

I am wondering (and hoping I suppose) as my son (now 4) was conceived in October and we started trying for our second in January (when we had a chemical) but have had no success since. I'm hoping that if my theory is somewhat true, we will have more chance of conceiving closer to September/October.

I don't know the answer but I have also always wondered this as I have noticed similar things with my own family and friends 😊

Sept/Oct isnt far away so fingers crossed for you!

I think often these patterns occur due to the date of conception having some significance for the couple...think Christmas/new years end up with Sept babies (also teachers often try for sept babies as it means they get the summer hols off before they go on mat leave) then other dates like birthdays, anniversaries and valentine's could mean babies in a family all being born around the same time of year x

@Esthermoo01 I can definitely see that being true for unplanned pregnancies! But not necessarily all of the time for planned (a part from of course if relating to job). I am a teacher and was hoping to get pregnant around about April/May this year (so started in January) to be due around January. I was hoping to go off and be back a few weeks before the summer holidays so that I would be paid the summer holidays! Plan is out of the window now though! Haha. I just want to be pregnant now regardless of timings now xx

I think it does depend on life events, September due date is a big one as people aim for oldest in the class children as it gives them a head start. I was born 9 months after my mum's birthday (planned) and my brother was born 8 months after my dad's birthday (also planned), I don't think it can be necessarily that after an anniversary or whatever means unplanned!

That 8 months clearly was meant to say 9

I agree with all the PPs. My hunch would be that certain seasons have significant events in them for different people and families, and that's what drives the higher than average births in certain months.

Speaking from my own experience we were aiming for a September/October baby. I conceived with a due date of Mid October but DS arrived almost 7 weeks early at the end of August... All that planning and he's now almost definitely going to end up the youngest in the class rather than the oldest.

We'll be doing the same with #2 when we start trying. But based on our experience we might aim for November or later this time.

I just see it as if you get pregnant on an anniversary (or similar) during trying for a baby (planned), it is clearly just by chance that it happened around that anniversary, just because it's an anniversary doesn't mean you have any higher chance of getting pregnant. We have been trying over my birthday, fiancés birthday and our own anniversary but still no pregnancy! After our first being conceived in the second month of trying, we were very positive with our plans and brushed peoples comments off when they said "you do know it may not happen how you plan", like I say, now, I do t care what month baby will be due, I just want to be pregnant haha!

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That should say! Haha

I have Feb, April and October children.
My mum had us Feb, March and sept.

However a friend with five children, has 3x April and 2x May children. So who knows.

My two are October and June. My brother and I are November and March. I've not really noticed this pattern to be honest OP. Although DH's family seem to have a lot of March birthdays - not sure if that's by design. DH himself is November though.

I think my theory is quite clearly out of the window haha! Thank you everybody! Hopefully there is another reason why my second is proving so difficult to conceive

I've thought about this too. Maybe it's more that certain people 'feel' more attuned to certain seasons so they have more sex then? All of my family have birthdays during summer...However personally I have 2 kids that were born in midwinter, one in spring and one in midsummer so 🤷

I have wondered this about myself

I have PCOS so struggle as it is but I conceived my DD in April & had her in the January then 14 months fell pregnant in March and should of had DS in December ( induced so he was born late November)

I’d always assumed that this sort of thing was mostly down to women planning a, say, minimum 2 yr gap between babies, and then falling pregnant quickly once TTC.

@BlahBlipBloopBlop I also have PSOS and they think I have endometriosis (since having my son) but don't want to do a laparoscopy until I am over a year into TTC number 2. Every cycle I just lose more and more hope!

If I only had 2 of my children I might think this was a thing (both born early March). But I have 5, late December, early July, early August and the March babies.

I have 3 children, 2 born in September with 2 days between their birthdays, 1 born on 31st december and pregnant with number 4 who's due 5th January but baby will be born in December as I have small babies so being induced earlier this time around, seems somewhat right for me lol. So 2 September babies and 2 December babies x

Unless someone has hundreds of children you will never get an answer that is at all statstically significant.

Ive wondered this too, I have 4 autumn babies, 3 of them in November.

My sister and I are both in the same month but we were planned for that month.

My DH and his siblings are two October and two December.

My first DD (not planned) was born in January and DD2 is due September after 13 cycles of trying.