Would you put off conceiving to avoid a summer born child?

[Algor1thm]

We're ready to try for our second, but have realised that Aug-Nov conceptions lead to summer born babies. Summer born children statistically have worse academic outcomes than those born earlier in the school year. You can now request a deferral, but I gather this can be quite a difficult process with no guarantees. Our first is late autumn/early winter born and I'm very glad they will be closer to 5 when they start school.

However my husband doesn't want to wait until Dec/Jan to start trying as we're already looking at a fairly large age gap, and he pointed out we don't know how long it'll take us to conceive/we could experience pregnancy loss which would set us back etc. We're in our early-mid 30s so not old, but we are several years older than the last time we ttc, so I don't want to assume it'll be straightforward.

Particularly interested to hear from summer borns... do you think we should wait a few more months for the benefit of having an autumn rather than summer born child?

End of July born DD, very early talker, plays well with older kids, can read and write- in her school attached nursery was moved up to do daily phonics with the reception class.
As a teacher myself, I was concerned about the summer born disadvantage but it's not been the case for us.

Honestly I didn’t give it a thought - our dd was attempt 5th ivf and pregnant July born March and overjoyed

just grateful to be preg

you can plan ttc - May happen first month. May take 6mths - May be born 1/2mths prem - May be late and induced

so you could end up with a diff month than planned

as a nanny I’ve have aug charges who start at 4 and thrived - I’ve had sept born ones and been oldest in class and bored last year of pre school but still struggle at school