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"August baby...unlucky"

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Tea1Sugar · 06/02/2014 16:25

This is what I heard one woman say to another in the GP waiting room today. Gobsmacked!!

I know there's the whole school debate but woah.

Dd1 is a May baby and dd2 will be making her appearance in April. I like that they are both spring babies but does anyone actually plan to have/avoid a certain birth month?! That's madness to me!!

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SweetPea86 · 06/02/2014 20:41

Also to add about planning a baby.

Two fellas at my work planned with there girlfriends to be due at Christmas, were not allowed any hols in December. So they got paternity all over Christmas. Absolute sados.

Didn't work for one of them because his wife was overdue hahahahahaha

The other one openly admitted to planning it out to land over Christmas.

jellybeans · 06/02/2014 20:43

My twins were early and ended up in the 'wrong year' (literally end of Aug-they were due far into Sept). It did hugely affect them in the first year or two of school. I was a bit sad for them but as they were born 10 months after a devastating stillbirth it was the least of my worries!

tinkerbell666 · 06/02/2014 20:46

My baby number 5 was due Sept 7th, he arrived 23rd Aug after a lot of worry and stress due to placenta previa, i am glad to have him here and we were both very lucky to come through, so if anyone dared talk about the month he was born they would get a mouthful about how he nearly wasn't here at all !! :(

mel0dy · 06/02/2014 20:47

Ours is due 10th August and tbh am a bit miffed with us lumbering child with 11 month deficit on others in school year, but that's for me to say not anyone else! My birthday's September and all the geeks I hung out with at school were September, October, and, oddly, March.

On the other hand I'd literally read all the books in my primary school with a year to go so might save my obviously intelligent child getting bored!

Debs75 · 06/02/2014 20:52

DD2 and DD3 were both September due and I was desperate to go to September so they would be oldest in class. With DD3 she had to be born early and I was really upset that she would be one of the youngest in class, until they told me she hadn't grown and she had to be delivered. At the end of the day I wanted a healthy live baby and I have just that.

Another thing with late summer babies is carrying them through a heatwave is not fun. DD1 and DS are spring babies and carrying through winter is a lot easier

HopeS01 · 06/02/2014 20:56

I was an August baby and never struggled. This attitude is crazy.

abear · 06/02/2014 20:59

I have one DS born 15 July and one DS born 11 Dec. The summer baby has coped very well at school and he has the joy of a summer birthday, having a birthday right next to Christmas isn't anywhere near as much fun, I would never try to choose when a child was born but Summer birthdays have to be more fun whilst a child and an adult, life isn't all about school.

CPtart · 06/02/2014 20:59

Both DS were planned conceptions at times to avoid summer/Autumn births precisely for the schooling reason.
Sad I know.

ArgyMargy · 06/02/2014 21:00

How is it "madness" to plan for your babies??!! I am a July baby and I planned to have both mine in July. The second one was a bit early but there you go. Summer babies are fabulous; being on maternity leave during the summer is fabulous. All that crap about them struggling at school is pure rubbish. Actually it's the other way round - the September babies get terribly bored and disruptive because they need to move on.

SweetPea86 · 06/02/2014 21:00

I agree I have lots of friends who were August babies, smartest people I know :)

mel0dy · 06/02/2014 21:25

I'm being very silly about this, given that I'm dismissive of things like astrology.

I've just checked August birthdays of people on facebook and some of my favourite people are there. In fact, the only person from my old work place I had any respect for, and virtually all the best and most creative musicians I know!

FrankelInFoal · 06/02/2014 21:40

It is madness to plan to such an extent because you can never know how long it will take you to conceive. Putting off TTC just because you don't fancy a child born in a particular month is, to me, madness.

Dusty04 · 07/02/2014 04:34

I was an august baby and didn't really struggle. I do remember my teacher telling my patents I would never be as bright as my peers (age 7). I was never behind so this was rubbish. I have a degree and a masters and many of those peers have neither.

Wishfulmakeupping · 07/02/2014 05:42

Born very end of August and I was in the top sets all the way through school and I've done ok for myself ;)

NancyinCali · 07/02/2014 05:56

I was born in mid-July and my brother in August and it didn't seem to affect us. Only thing for my brother was his birthday parties were always small as everyone was on holidays. DD1 is April and DD2 will be late July/early August. I have a friend who initially tried to plan conception around the best time for school but her DD was born in August.

Plateofcrumbs · 07/02/2014 07:04

Being on the wrong side of 35 and TTC for 18 months with no success, there was no chance in hell I was going to start trying to time conception for the 'best' time of year - it was just starting to feel a bit desperate to conceive ANY month. I'm sure I will be a bit anxious about how little DS or DD copes in the early school years. But hopefully he or she will have his parents' brains anyway .

17leftfeet · 07/02/2014 07:24

I was very lucky with both my dcs as I fell pregnant very quickly and have 2 autumn babies

I'm an August birthday and hated is as a child

From an academic point of view it made no difference in the long term but from but socially it made a made a huge difference, especially in high school where I was the last to be able to do anything

Saharap2 · 07/02/2014 07:28

What a stupid comment. I just want a baby and I couldn't care less about the birthday month! Also I was an August baby and never struggled at all.

TamerB · 07/02/2014 07:38

Of course it isn't unlucky. I have a friend whose child was born at the beginning of September, very bright and very mature, she would have been so much better off being the youngest in the year - she was always a bit of a 'fish out of water' with her own year group.
They are all different - some July/Aug babies struggle- some do not.

ArgyMargy · 07/02/2014 07:40

I had no doubts about my ability to conceive quickly and so planned accordingly. I wouldn't have stopped trying to avoid an Autumn baby though. I don't think that planning is madness in any way.

TamerB · 07/02/2014 07:40

DH is born at the very end of Aug and won a scholarship to a very selective, private, secondary. He didn't have a tutor,or do more than a few practise papers at school. Ignore people.

Neverdonethisbefore · 07/02/2014 07:47

My daughter was born on 30th Aug and was 8 weeks early. It doesn't bother me that she will be the youngest and probably smallest in her year group, she will catch up at some point. She shares a birthday with my sister who has got a PHD in chemistry so never held her back. The plus point is that I have a year less childcare to fund! My other baby is a December baby and it's rained every day since she arrived so my maternity leave is limited to the house or somewhere else inside, not great to be fair.

Nahmate · 07/02/2014 08:02

Ds2 is a august baby - I quite like that his birthday is always in the summer hols!
Dd is a xmas day baby...now If I could of planned it i would avoided that day!

Seff · 07/02/2014 08:10

The only thing unlucky about having an August baby is being heavily pregnant in the middle of summer - assuming we have such a thing in the UK! DD was born in June, and when I was about 36-37 weeks there was a really hot spell of weather and it wasn't pleasant! I'm 35 weeks now, so a spring baby, and the cooler weather is a bit more manageable.

In terms of the school thing, I swing between wishing we had that extra year and being very glad she's starting school in September!

moomin35 · 07/02/2014 09:00

Hasn't done anyone I know born in August any harm whatsoever - ignore them!!! :-)

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