elective c sections to get your kids a school place!

[albertson]

Look at this!

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1400683.ece

wtf!!
I know it's insane trying to get a prep school place in London but please! And that the headmistress actually admits she'd advise booking a c-section early in the month.
Oh. My.God

Why not just register your unripe ovum

Or ring them up as soon as you've got a boyfriend

shit maybe I should be registering my 4yo dd's unborn kids now

Only if they're going to be born on the 1st of the month CD

But there is an important life organisation issue here. Some people don't plan things and get caught out and others do. Trying to drum this into the older children now about times when you apply for jobs, work placements etc. Too many people don't check and miss deadlines and then regret it.

I had my DD down for her school when she was a couple of weeks old. I think this is because I like to plan and organise. Makes my life easier.

OMG

I had to send copy birth certificates to register my dd1 for schools in london I seem to remember. So they do really have to be born!

Yes frogs, the woman was SO RUDE to me that if she had phoned up 2 seconds later and offered me a place I would have told her to bog off.
My cousin's children went there too and it was fine, but nothing special. She lived approximately 1 minute walk away though, so that convenience outweighed everything else. They were moved at 7/8.

I went to a private (your public!) girls' school in Australia, and a girl who was in my class was actually also registered at our brother school, before she was even born!

I don't see anything wrong with registering you child as early as you want to. I just think planning your c section around it is a bit much.

I cant beleive people actually do this though, I mean theres organised and theres just plain weird

What would you do if you had the option

Both my children were born by c section, the first emergency, the second was agreed with my doctor as the best option. When it came close to agreeing a date for the planned section if i had the choice between having my child in late august or early september, as long as i was 38 weeks + I would have chosen August. Only because other wise i would have been faced with another years nursery fees, (about 7K)I didnt get the choice btw my DD was a november baby. It felt quite strange making a choice about what date to have DD when i had my meeting with the consultant. I remember him asking me "what date suits you best?" Once the 38 week was passed he let me chose my date.

If I thought it would save a year's nursery fees I would definately bump the date into August. However, when planning to have children it never occurred to me to try for an August arrivals to save on nursery fees. Sort of wish I had thought of that now.

Well having done what i did I think I would choose September otherwise they are SO little when they go to school

bang goes your hopes of having a football champion in the family though, or overall school success, higher for those born Sept- Dec. ah well, you win some, you lose some

Ah but CD, if you had my bank account and I had yours, then I too would be perfectly happy with an extra year of childcare fees.

But, for most of us, those nursery fees are a major consideration.

I'd have another child if I coul afford the childcare. But, I can't so I won't.

(however, even if I could afford it, I don't think I'd send my son to this snobby school)

BUT if you are sending kids to private school surely it is neither here nor there?

Nursery fees and school fees fairly similar I think

Yeah, I guess that's true. Private school is another thing I can't afford.

Maybe for senior school... (Eleusis says dreaming)

Okay Im delaying my birth so Im not in hospital when Big Brothers on. Hey I jest