Do you know of any siblings who share a bday?

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My daughter's birthday is tomorrow and I'm currently 38 weeks pregnant and feeling all kinds of potential signs and symptoms of labour.

I'm now laying here going "OMG what if they end up sharing a bday?!"

Firstly... what are the bloody chances?! 🤣

And secondly... would it be awful for them?

I wonder if you or anyone you know of shares a bday with a sibling and did they like it/ hate it/ love it?

How did they navigate it?

I'm wondering how common/ rare it is!

I worked with a guy years ago who had 2 brothers. All shared a birthday in different years! We used to joke about their parents have an annual sex date planned 😂

I know somebody who had twins on her then two year olds birthday.

Me! I’m five years younger than my brother. Hated it at times as a child as wanted my own special day and didn’t want to share it. Our parents seemed to quite like the novelty of it though. As an adult it’s not a problem at all 😊

My older brother and I share the same birthday - one year apart !!! Not sure how my mum ever coped. We loved it , it made our day even more special. Growing up we had joint birthday parties so was always a really good time. Added bonus is he never forgets my birthday 🤣

DD was due on DS birthday, I so wanted to go overdue, but nope she came 2 days early and we came out of hospital on his birthday.

I know of someone whose children share a birthday

My friend has 3 DC. The 1st 2 have the same birthday just 3 years apart

I have two born on the same day four years apart and both 4/5 weeks early. Youngest is now 12, I’ll never forget the night before when I tried to pretend I wasn’t going into labour five weeks early and the look my dd gave me when she realised she had another brother!

How common - roughly 1 in 365 :-)

Also my other two are two weeks apart, I must have a thing for the same dates!

I know someone who shares a birthday with her sister & their mum too.

My sister-in-law has a son and daughter two years apart in age and born on the same date - makes remembering birthdays a lot easier!

My DDs are 3 years and 1 day apart so have birthdays on consecutive days. Fortunately the older DD's birthday is first. I know several families with similar circumstances.

I share a birthday with an aunt, her brother's birthday is in the same month. When I was small, there would be a family party for both of us but she doesn't seem to be able to remember it now...

Long ago, a consultant and an 'old wife' told me that women have high points - some cycles are more fertile than others. Also, there are some 'hot spots' like Christmas, twixtmas, New Years and summer holiday months.

On a different note.

To help navigate things try and name the children so they have different initials (at least different middle initials) and will be less likely to be confused in databases.

Especially, do this if they have just one digit different in their date of birth and are the same sex.

I have 4 children, 2 of them have the same birthday!

My 2 cousins ( siblings) share a birthday. I know loads of people that have 1 or 2 days between their DCs birthdays.

It know of three sets so it feels much more common than it should be! From the one I’m very close with it didn’t seem to be an issue at all?? Although there was large age gap so maybe that just meant a separation of activities/special events was more natural anyway!

Mine are 1 day (and almost 2 years) apart, and I tried for my second for about 11 months (I wanted a 1-2 year age gap and just made it). I joked that my body must only be fertile at a certain time of year, but maybe there is something in it! I had to leave dd’s 2nd birthday party as the contractions got so bad we had to go to hospital and leave grandparents in charge.

We got away with joint birthday parties for a few years when they were tiny.

My son and daughter are a year apart and share the same birthday. My daughter was an unplanned pregnancy and they were both 3 weeks early too and share a birthday. I love celebrating them together.

I was 37+6 pregnant on DC1s birthday and the next day, DC2 arrived. So chanches it will happen to you are I'd say quite reasonable. Now, I know it's not the same as they both still have their own day, but until DC1 was 10 or so, we always had a joint birthday party for them, and that was never an issue. They shared most of the friends anyway.

My oldest and youngest sons share the same birthday, they are twelve years and half an hour apart. Youngest was due four days before my oldest son’s birthday but hung on to arrive on his birthday. Initially oldest was not very happy but quickly came round and he used to come to youngest’s party and it then later in the day it would go on to be a barbecue for oldest’s birthday celebration.

A woman I work with has 3 dc with the same birthday. 1 singleton then twins, two years younger.

The twins were actually born by planned section at 38 weeks - and when they were told what week it would need to be, they requested their dd's birthday and the hospital were able to agree. Their thinking was that it would be better in the long run to have all 3 birthdays on the same day rather than dd1 then the twins a day or two later. I see their logic tbh!

I was born on my sister's 14th birthday which I think she took a little while to get her head around but I always loved sharing a birthday with my big sister. She died 2 years ago and I miss us having that shared day but it's something we'll always have so still feels special.

2 of mine share a birthday....10 years apart! It's fine really