Are there months you’d want to avoid baby being due?

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We’re thinking of trying for baby number 2 around new year but as a Christmas baby myself I want to avoid a December birthday. Where I stay the January and February birthdays are the youngest in the school year so I’d also want to avoid those months but it basically means starting TTC then putting it on hold for 3 or 4 months if it doesn’t happen quickly. I feel like once we start again I will struggle to wait as it consumes your life 🙈 Is there months you’d try to avoid?

I have 2 kids born in December plus a DSS also dec 😬

Autumn (October ish) and April (ish) seem the busiest so I'd go between those few months just to avoid a busy time on the labour ward and better care So high summer and winter

Everyone saying December and august... and I have a December daughter and an august daughter 😂

Oh goodie, another thread to shit on august babies. Yeah they’re all thick as fuck and will never achieve anything in life. Don’t have an august baby 🙄

given the choice, I’d definitely avoid the entire end of year/start of the new year period.

All my children are summer babies. 2 with August birthdays. 🤷🏻‍♀️

As the mother of an August baby who was constantly told to 'keep your legs crossed' until September for the school year, I raise you September as the worst month for having to pay those extortionate nursery fees for a year longer than parents of August babies 😂

I only avoided March as I really did not want a Christmas baby.

Luckily both of mine are summer born babies and we're in Scotland so no school issues with that.

I always liked the idea of April, May or June to have a baby but my 3 DS’s have birthdays in October, February and March. I’m now pregnant with DC4 and due in February again. It took a year to conceive this time so I was just over the moon we could have another! You can’t always plan x

By chance DC was born in October (we weren’t TTC) and in retrospect I am glad he was because of the school year (which I was unaware of at the time as I wasn’t educated in this country). I was born in the first week of December and I’ve always liked my birthday date!

I have a September baby and a November baby who should have arrived in December but decided he wanted out 4 weeks early.

I second the issue with September being super busy in maternity units. They wanted to induce me at 38 weeks but didn’t have an available date until I was 39+2. And then they still had to push me back another couple of days because labour ward was full all the time. Postnatal ward was also super busy and loud and the midwives were rushed off their feet.

Everything was so much calmer in November. I had a private side room postnatally, but there were loads of free beds on the ward, so midwives were far more available.

If I could rewind, I'd have had my kids in the middle of the year. I've got one October birthday and one March birthday, both far too near to Christmas in my view. My friend has two with a 3 year age gap either side of Christmas Day. That's shit planning!

Also I'm a September baby. It's the busiest time according to my midwife friend because of all the festive shaggers 🙃

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Thank you! Me too!

Fellow December baby here, and we purposely avoided Dec/January!
DD1 is October
DD2 is may (due to the age gap we wanted)
DD1 is due October (3 days before DD1 birthday!)

Swings and roundabouts of all of them but I'd definitely choose sept-nov personally x

Wtf?

No, none. I'm a winter baby and DH a summer born. Our eldest is summer born and our only concern was about school starting age and the knock on effect of being one of the youngest in the year, so we are starting her at school in reception when she's 5 instead of 4, so that's that dealt with. Second born is an autumn baby.

I had my DD at the beginning of September she was something like the 7th baby born in September. However the maternity ward wasn't that busy. If she came on her due date, so in the second/third week, then it would have been different.

Anyway these threads are silly as after the child's character the most important influence on how they turn out in life is you and your partner's socio-economic status.

So I have Summer born younger brothers and nephews who started doing very well once they hit secondary school. There as the rest of us born throughout the year have been more consistent.

March April May (spring!) are best times to have a baby. July August, December the worst (uncomfortably hot, very young in school year, Christmas).
I had one late July and one in May. Definitely better in May.

Definitely December and January. Its really annoying to have birthdays near Christmas As if there wasnt enough to do.

I would never actively avoid any month. I believe in fate.

My daughter was born in December. I have LOTS of sons. If I had had that attitude who knows maybe the next month I wouldn’t have conceived her.

August.
Had ivf, twins and they arrived in August.
But honestly they are doing fine as August dc.

July and august but only because they would be youngest in the school year

I'd have said yes when I was younger. Then I lost a baby who would have been a perfect-date baby and it took me two years to conceive. So no. Any date is wonderful.

August because of the school year. I saw that as an august birthday myself with a child with an august birthday. Would avoid it if possible if I have any more.