What do you do if both children's birthdays are close together?

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I'm just curious really about how you make it different and special (and have the energy to do two lots of celebrations!) Is it ever an issue? Do you have joint parties? Also interested in those who have experienced it growing up.

Ttc soon and will be very close to ds birthday if works!

My children's birthdays are 15 days apart. Only issue is the gifts and celebrations come out of the same pay day. Other than that it's fine, both get their own separate and different celebration

DS age 9 and DD age 5 are within 4 weeks of each other- makes for a very expensive time and to make matters worse also close to Christmas! Pre-covid we worked on the principle that they could have a (whole class) party every other year so alternating which worked well until Covid hit! Then this year they are both insisting on a party which frankly is hell trying to organise both at same time so definitely don't recommend this! Having a joint party wouldn't work as their interests are so different. Have never done joint presents.

Until this year there wasn't an issue in them being close together as the system of a party every other year worked really well. I'd say the bigger issue actually is having their birthdays so close to Christmas as it means a mountain of toys so close together then nothing the rest of the year.

It depends how close the birthdays are and what the age difference is. If they’re similar ages and don’t mind a similar themed parties and both sets of friends there then I’d probably throw a joint party. There’s 3 girls in my dd’s class who all have birthdays within a few days together. Every year the 3 sets of parents arrange a joint party and invites the class which I think is a marvellous idea (saves a fortune for each of them)

Mine are 10 days apart and it's lovely. It's like the whole 2 weeks is a celebration. They don't have joint parties or joint gifts as I think each should be celebrated individually.

My SIL has twins who were born either side of midnight (and a week before their big brother's birthday, 10 days before Christmas!!)
They're only 5 this year, but the years they've had parties, they have a joint party celebrate their birthdays across the 2 days. They both open some presents on the first day and some on the 2nd and have individual birthday cakes, with their own "happy birthday" sang.

Only their first birthday was joint with their big brother (4 years between him and twins) and it was a large room in a leisure centre with bouncy castle & magician for older kids, soft play and ball pit for the babies. Not sure it would work now that they're older

Mine are 10 days apart too. Growing up they always had separate parties but now teenage they celebrate on the day but also have another joint celebration like a day out or special meal halfway between the two birthdays.

2 weeks apart. Always separate.Then they each have a special day. They each have one week with cards and decorations up. It’s an expensive month but it is what it is.

My kids birthdays are 13 days apart. They have their own birthday on their own day. We don't do big parties but if we are doing something big like one hear we room them scuba diving we did that on a day in between their birthdays as it was silly to do it 13 days apart and they enjoyed it more doing it together. Never been an issue really.

I have 3 all born in March 🤦🏻 Oldest 2 born 2 days apart, it’s a busy month! But no I don’t join birthdays I don’t do big parties though usually days out

Me and my brother are 4 days apart with a 2 year age gap.
When we were young we had a shared party but then each had our own family celebration on the day.
When we got older we tended to keep celebrations separate as wanted to do different things rather than a generic party.

Mine are 9 days apart. One gets one weekend and the other gets the next. Definitely not joint parties as they aren’t close in age or share the same friends. It’s fine. I hate birthday parties so means I get it out of the way all at once and don’t have to think about another one for another year!

My girls are 5 days apart in the first week of December, 5 years between them (and a brother in between as well)

Generally I lose my mind about mid November and emerge blinking into the shining light of my overdraft by about NYE.

They are older now but for many years I did one party the weekend before, one the weekend after and drank a lot

The brother has a March birthday luckily.

Within 4 weeks we have both Dds, my birthday, (5 close family members) and Christmas!

Everyone has their own special and unique day.

We have a 9 day gap. It’s not really an issue - just makes for a busy fortnight.

My dd and ds birthdays are exactly one week apart.3 years between them. In July so it was always a lovely time to celebrate with summer holidays and so long since Christmas. We always did separate parties for friends but in between birthdays would do days out or get one big present eg trampoline...have cousins to stay etc. It made for an exciting week.

My sister and my birthdays are a week apart. We used to do joint birthday parties, which may have annoyed my older sister more than me. But once we hit 7 or 8 they were treated as separate. Maybe financially tricky fur my parents but we had no idea about that.

2 days apart so one day in between! DH bday is the week before them and our anniversary in the same month and then Xmas not long after so it's a busy and expensive time. I'm also sick of cake after the 3rd one in 10 days lol!

The kids are 9 years apart though so no joint parties although tend to invite family on the middle day so both get presents... usually people bring something for my other child lol as his bday is summer and he'd be the only one not getting anything while DH and the other 2 get presents from everyone else in the family!

Ours are 13 days apart and we did a joint party once when they were small. More recently they do something relatively cheap with friends for their own birthday and we do a special family in the weekend between their birthdays- falconry day, driving experience, one year was center parcs.

My 2 younger boys have birthdays 12 days apart and only a year between them.

Expense aside it's always been fine and just a couple of weeks of celebrating/partying. They've grown up almost like twins and when they were younger each had presents on their birthdays and a little something extra on each other's. Had a shared party for first couple of years of school but now have own celebration/party and just presents on their own birthday. So close in age I've had to duplicate some of the presents (bike, etc). Different personalities so like some different things but also swap/share others. It's great .

Mine are 3 years apart but on the same day!! I think in many ways that’s easier than a few days apart. So far they have shared celebrations but that might change as they get older. I do always make them a cake each though. And then we eat a lot of cake!

My two are on two consecutive days, so incredibly close. We always have separate parties and family meals. Having said that we've never done whole class parties.

12 days between my DCs. They are 7 and 5yo. We always celebrate the individual child on their day, with balloons and homemade cake made to DC's chosen theme etc, plus they choose the day's dinner. Most years they have had their own parties, but we have done joint birthday day trips before eg Legoland. Last year they had their own party but at the same venue and time as each other (own guests and different party tables, but could mix during the activity), which worked really well. They are pretty close and were happy to share the party day. It was much easier for me, so I will offer this as a suggestion every year until they outgrow it!

7 days between birthdays. 4 years apart. Both have completely different birthday parties. Nothing is combined or presents shared. Pretty hectic, but we have a year to get over it!

DS's birthday is late December, DD is early Jan. We're having a joint party. They will be 5 and 8.