Old wives tales - 1st Birthday????

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oooggs · 10/12/2004 19:46

I've heard that there is an old wives tale that a baby wakes at the time he was born on this first birthday. DS is 1 tomorrow and was born at 3.44am. So will he wake???? Does the fact the we arrived home from Florida today count - so he could be jet lagged?? Anyone else experienced this?

Just curious

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winterwarmmummer · 10/12/2004 19:51

Maybe dd1 was sick on the night of her birthday and she was up at midnight. Don't remember dd2. Will let you know about ds after 20/12

sleepdeprived · 10/12/2004 19:51

Hadnt heard that! Will find out next month!

xmascaroltygirl · 10/12/2004 19:59

Does it make a difference if they were born in a Leap Year?

Frizbethereindeer · 10/12/2004 20:25

mine was awake, but then she was born at 09:40am

tillykins · 10/12/2004 20:40

nah, they only wake up half way through Coronation Street, when you are eating, when you have just sat down and so on. As long as you are not doing any of those things, they sleep!

FimboCLAUS · 10/12/2004 20:45

It was my ds 1st birthday yesterday he was born at 10am and yesterday he was wide awake at that time and full of beans................

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oooggs · 11/12/2004 18:48

Well due to the jetlag I was up and awake between 2 - 4am and he slept right through. What a load of bull

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cranberryjampot · 11/12/2004 19:40

Well I heard that during the last few weeks of pregnancy if you woke at a particular time in the night then that's the time you'll go into labour

Socci · 11/12/2004 19:57

That's interesting, Jampot - that happened to me in the last few weeks of my preganancy. I would wake and have Braxton hicks at the time I eventually went into labour.

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