Please reassure me about my Christmas Day due date!

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Eek - EDD is 25th December - is this the end of the world? I am really gutted about it. Can't believe I didn't think it through properly in advance - with DS1 we actively avoided sex in March in order to avoid a December birthday. This time we played fast and loose in early April and I casually did a bit of quickie math and reckoned on early Jan. Totally forgot it goes from LMP not BD

Aarrrggghhh. Please tell me my child won't hate me for this. Is a Christmas birthday awful? Would it be better if it arrived early or came late? Would even be prepared to have c-section to engineer early birth (is that just wrong?).

Anyone got a Christmas birthday in the family? It is rubbish?

ds2's birthday is the 27th and he hates it. He is 8 so old enough to understand that all the presents come at once. We have never been able to have a party between christmas and new year and have tried before christmas.....too many other parties, between christmas and new year........all with relatives, and in January........too skint.

We have even tried a half birthday in June/July which has worked better except for some stupid parents who have said to him "no one celebrates half birthdays"

DH is an xmas eve baby. He used to hate it. As a child he has storys of having birthday presents being wrapped up in xmas paper but white side up. One year having a bday card with half a £5 note in it and an xmas card with the matching other half. And his worst moment no one being free to go to birthday parties. One year him mum booked him a bday party at a bowling alley. Apart from they couldn't do a bday party only an xmas one with a visit off father xmas. He didn't like that apparantly. Now he's grown up he's got over it and no matter how busy we are over xmas we make a point of xmas even all being about him and cos i've been a bit skint the past few bdays we've had a birthday 2 halfway through the year. At the end of the day it's what you and your family make of it

I am a Christmas day baby . My Mum said I was her best EVER Christmas present. My parents always kept Christmas and Birthday separate for me. My Birthday was after the Queens Speech and everybody stopped doing Christmassy things and concentrated on ME! It was fab and we still do it to this day. Tried a half birthday when I was 12ish but went back to my special day that very same year.

I have two DCs with birthdays close to Christmas. One on 29th Dec (he was due 26th). It gives me a great excuse to take all the decorations down early.

Sorry slalom but I am really not a fan of half birthdays.

I dont do big birthdays for any of the DCs. They get a special present and a special tea and lots of fuss. You can do that at any time of the year.

My due date is also Christmas day. However, will be having a c-section (2 previous c-sections already) and as my waters broke with both children at just under 39 weeks, they said they won't let me go over 39 weeks and so baby will have to be born no later than 18th December. Was abit gutted at first having a christmas baby for the usual reasons eg no birthday parties, joint prezzies for them etc but now I realise that I feel delighted to of been given the chance to bring another child into the world and as long as the baby is healthy, the date of their birth should not matter.

My DS is the 27th. It's his own fault, he was due on the 14th.

We do give him a half birthday, but it's just a family thing. We get him a nice present and take him out for the day (not so easy to do in December). My mum joins in with a present, but we don't expect anyone else to.

I'm a proud Christmas Day baby, and can honestly say I love my birthday. My parents always made an effort to give me separate birthdays and Christmas, and my eve-of-Christmas-eve party (23rd Dec) was always popular, mainly cos the other parents could get rid of their kiddies and get on with some serious Christmas prep! They always made sure I didn't miss out. Plus who else gets a whole month of tinsel and fairy lights and general sparkliness before their birthday?

I also got my picture on the front page of the local paper too...not sure how impressed my mum was at being photographed 2 days after labour, but there you go....that was 30 years ago!