Would you try for a January baby?

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DH and I want to start TTC now we’ve finally moved house. If I fell pregnant on my next cycle - lucky/unlikely I know - I’d be due on 1st January 😬 so baby would most likely have an early January birthday. Is this the worst time for a person to have a birthday, right after Christmas when everyone is depressed and it’s cold & dark outside? gifts and parties all crammed into two weeks of the year then nothing?
am I overthinking this? I’m mid 30s as well so wary of skipping cycles

Having a Jan baby is lovely because you have something to look forward to after Xmas rush is over. Its a reason to pay every year when you are done with Xmas /new year. It just extends the celebrations IMO.

It's an adult having a January birthday is boring af

Everyone is broke after Christmas, everyone is doing bloody dry jan and regifted Christmas presents are the norm. But it's fine. I just go out in December for it or feb!

I'd just try to get pregnant hoping it was going to happen and not worry about when baby is born as you could have fertility problems and all this waiting around could be more of an issue than when the babies birthday is.

I wouldn't slip a cycle. You can't guarantee getting pregnant right away anyway. It could take months.

My birthday is first week of Jan and, yes it's shit. No-one has any money, or doing dry January or on a diet. Also, they forget. They forget because Christmas is so all-consuming.

However, if it was this or not existing? Think I can live with it. In my list of difficulties my birthday is waaaay down.

My second is an early Jan baby. Much more sensible time to have a baby than the late Aug first!

Go for it!

Don't overthink it, don't do test strips for ovulation and try to guess the optimum time for sex just have regular sex! ... babies are made that way all the time. If after a year you don't get pregnant that's the time to get scientific however my gp friend has a theory that people struggling to conceive simply aren't having sex at the right time because they are using tests and apps, plus crucially not having any other sex!

I can't believe people take birthdays so seriously, maybe im a scrooge lol but apart from big milestone birthdays they're no big deal, I know people in work take their birthday off every year, it perplexes me. I certainly wouldnt be organising my life around a birthday.

My advice would be keep trying and I'd you're lucky to get pregnant and birth falls in January I doubt you'll regret it

My birthday is mid Jan and I love it. People rarely have other plans as its cold /damp / people are skint, so it's easy to get a group of people together. And as an adult - I've had great success with bars giving me deals for booking parties.

I didn't even realise until my late teens that Jan was seen as a rubbish time for a birthday

We’d been trying a few months for DC2, and I did wonder whether we should skip a March conception because of the likely December birthday but then thought “what if this is the one month it takes??” And true enough I did get pregnant and we have a mid-Dec baby (he was late as well, little bugger!) 😀 I won’t lie, I am a little annoyed with myself for it, so I understand why you’re not sure about January either. But DC is happy enough and there are loads of birthdays around that time of year in his class. Don’t think anyone would blame you for thinking either way.

My DD is a January baby, and what I can say is it's quite a good time from the mum's point of view. You're not heavily pregnant in the heat (my DS is mid-July, that was tough); you have an excuse to spend those first couple of months cuddled up indoors keeping warm with your baby; then just as they start getting more alert and active and interested in the world, it's spring and you can get out and about and enjoy the milder weather.

DD doesn't seem bothered by her birthday being in January, though they may change as she gets older. She's literally the week before payday, so may have to get used to celebrating it a week later if she wants her friends to be able to afford her join her!

My son, my brother and I all have January birthdays and it sucks. It's the start of school. It's also cold so for my sons birthday parties I have to always hire a hall. If you can avoid it, great! Awesome planning on your part.