Not celebrating birthday

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Did anyone not celebrate their child's first birthday? My DD is turning one in a few weeks time and I haven't organised anything because I didn't celebrate my DS's first birthday. We bought him a gift but didn't have a big party or anything. Are we in the minority ?

Didn't have a party for either of my DD's 1st birthday. We still 'celebrated', in that we had balloons, presents and a cake at home.
Didn't have a party for their second birthday either! DD1 had one for her 3rd birthday with her pre school friends.

Exactly what Ecureuil did. Cake, balloon, one close friend and our NDN. I think DD found even that overwhelming, tbh.

Same as Ecureil, I always said dd could have a party when she knew what one was so her 3rd was her first party. Going for the same rule with ds. If you want to have a party for you at 1 or 2 go ahead but your dc will have no understanding of what it is! Now I'm into the school age party phase I'm glad I gave myself a break!

We didn't for our DS' 1st or 2nd. For the 1st, we just had a dinner and cakes with my Mum who was visiting. His 2nd was the day after each got back from holiday so hadn't planned anything. He's none the wiser, but I suspect we will have to do something next year!

DO you belong to a baby group meetup where you go to each other's houses. I had it at mine that day and served cake to the mums.

Your DD won't remember what yiu do. Maybe get a little cake so your older child sees that it is celebrated.

We didn't for the twins, not even at home as they had chicken pox and we never got round to it later.

I don't think big parties are worth it at one. We just had close family and a birthday tea but I think the adults enjoyed it far more than the birthday child.

We didn't have a party but had grandparents round, made a cake (Victoria sponge, nothing fancy and more for our benefit!) and had some presents.

We had a very low key celebration.... grandparents over for piece of shop bought cake.

I'm waiting until dd is older and wants a party with friends before I go to any big expense or trouble.

We had a little party but it was basically for us. She didn't care! We didn't actually buy her birthday presents or Christmas presents either as she got lots to unwrap from extended family and we just got other stuff as and when needed/I saw something I liked or on offer.

I think it's nice to have a cake, so you can take a photo of her with her cake and she can see it when she's older.
Beyond that, she won't give a stuff, so only do something if you want to.