Siblings born at the same time of year

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I'm aware this is a really petty question haha.

I really like the time of year my son was born for a whole host of reasons... I liked the way my pregnancy panned out with the seasons, and I just generally like the time of year he's born and like when his birthday is. When thinking of having baby #2 I'm tempted to TTC at the same time as last time. I'm aware you can't guarantee these things, but I've been pregnant twice and both times I fell pregnant instantly, so there's a fair chance it could happen again. If I plan it this way we could have siblings with birthdays very close together. There's the small risk they could be born on the same day as well, although obviously unlikely.

Does anyone have children with birthdays within the same few weeks? What are the pros/cons and would you recommend avoiding it? My husband has pointed out the cost aspect - is this a huge problem, or do you just factor it in with budgeting throughout the year?

I have an October and a November birthday for Ds and Dd. Not too close together and not super close to Christmas

My sister and I had birthdays 2 days apart. It was fine. When we were young we had joint birthday parties. After that though it really didn't make any difference to us.

I suppose it probably worked out as an expensive time of year for my parents, but you can always budget in advance.

There is six weeks between my DC birthdays. It should have been 8 weeks but I had DS2 two weeks early. They are both spring babies. It meant I was in the early stages of pregnancy in the summer when it was really hot. I would have hated being massive in the summer.

We just budget for birthdays etc pretty much straight after Christmas, we start planning for DS1s birthday. The hardest part is DS2 birthday is the day before mine. Which makes it impossible to book a night out/weekend away without the DC for my birthday. Which I would have liked to have done for my 40th.

Brother and I on same date. 5 years difference, so it has never bothered either of us.

Hi there. I have 5 kids. And 3 of which are all born in April. It's a lovely time of year and we all enjoy a big celebration together.

My son and 1st dd have exactly a month apart(8 years apart) , my youngest dd and step daughter have the same birthday (13 years apart)

My freinds sons have the same birthday (7 years apart)

As long as they have similar attention its fine, most of the time they love telling people they have the same birthday

My oldest, my youngest, my mother, my husband and my fil all have birthdays in the same week. We have a big family celebration, it works well

Ds1 Jan
SDS Jan
Dd2 dec
Ds3 dec
And Christmas in the middle!
Bloody expensive time of year.

I find it stressful. But then one of them is Boxing Day and the other is less than two weeks later so we have all the Xmas build up and (over) excitement and two weeks of absolutely everything all at once and then it’s all over for another year. I find by the time the second birthday comes around I’m just wanting it all finished which is really unfair to the dc.

Not to mention the financial hit of it all, even though we really don’t spend a lot on them. I wouldn’t have planned it this way but having had multiple miscarriages it’s just the way it happened.

My brother and sister have their birthdays a week apart and then mine is 3 months later, I always felt a bit left out when we were growing up, but they did get to have a joint party for when one was 18 and the other was 21 which genuinely was great fun.

DS & DD are 2years 1 week apart. It's been great for us so far although they're only 4 & 2. Can see the costs creeping up as they get older but we'll just have to be a bit more organised with saving/planning. We've done joint birthdays parties so far and it's been lovely. Again it's worked so far as it's just family and close friends. Will probably get a little hectic when they go to school and the class parties start.

Consecutive days for my two. They absolutely hate it. It's soon after Christmas so coat is huge although we're used to it now and plan accordingly. But despite our best efforts they both feel shortchanged as DD1 (1st) feels that her birthday has to come to an abrupt end and DD2 (2nd) feels she doesn't get any build up. I'd avoid it like the plague.

10 days apart in Jan, I was offered a c section for DD2 7 days earlier. I absolutely refused it and wanted as long a gap as possible (neither pregnancy was planned time wise). I'm a twin and I really really didn't want a shared birthday for them. As it is they get a weekend each to celebrate separately or I can pick one and go joint which is lovely. Just make sure if they are close the second birthday gets just as much attention / secs / activities as the other as it can feel a bit "been there done that recently" fatigue and then child feels second best too. If I had had the choice, they wouldn't be January babies or 10 days apart but I was very lucky to get them at all. 😃

13 days between my two - both November. I wanted Autumn babies but didn't think about the cost! They don't mind it at the moment & used to have joint birthdays.

My sister and I have birthdays less than a week apart. But there's a 10 year age gap so when I was a child, she was in her teens so joint birthdays weren't an issue as we obviously had different wants at those ages. But these days we tend to have a joint family Celebration in between our birthdays. And we end up with a joint cake etc. It's quite nice really as I hate being the centre of attention and it always makes me smile watching the rest of my family trying to shoe horn both of our names in when singing happy birthday

Yes my boys are only 6 weeks apart and I leave up the bunting and decorations for 6 weeks 🤣

There is a 8 yr gap between them

There’s 3 weeks between my oldest and youngest; it’s not been a problem so far money-wise (there’s a payday between!) although you could always put money away specifically for birthdays. Mine don’t mind it either, as the oldest is happy to celebrate youngest’s birthday knowing his is next (and soon!) and she’s just happy for more cake again. They’re different months too so we don’t talk birthdays until that month.

Both me and my DH have birthdays within a few days of our siblings and our two DC's are less than 2 weeks apart with mine in the middle - this was not planned! Just the way it has turned out.

I don't mind their birthdays being together but I hate mine being in the middle, it just gets forgotten or postponed because their party is that weekend etc. Plus there is a lot of cake in a short period of time

7 days between my two, not intentional but it gets it all done in a week andn shared parties have been possible some years

3 days difference (and several years!).
Joint parties for several years. Mountains of cake, and an expensive month.
Now we are on separate parties, we tend to do one the weekend before, and one the weekend after. I highly recommend avoiding one party in the morning, and the other that afternoon. It was an exhausting day, but for various reasons the only way we could work it that year.

2DC, one week and 3 years apart

Works well for us!

Following as DC3 is due 4 days before DS2's birthday! Lovely to hear about shared parties etc. :)

One positive I have thought is that if they are similar sizes, all the handmedown clothes should be the right season at the right age.

2 years & 2 days apart for my dds. It's never caused any problems, we did a few joint parties when they were little & then they had a weekend either side each.
They're older now so parties etc aren't such an issue really. Did a joint 16th/18th a couple of years ago which was great.
There was never any jealousy & even though it would be an expensive week, you just budget for it. I like the time of year mine were born too but it was a complete coincidence.
You'll need a bit of space for cards! It's been lovely over the years seeing the ages go up from 2 & New Baby

My DC's birthdays are 20 days apart and mine & DH's are within another 20 days of that. So all our birthdays over within 6 weeks of each other!

@BertieBotts my timings were exactly the same as yours but dd2 was a few days late; I did hope she wouldn't come on dd1's actual birthday & we were lucky!