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Your thoughts: Babies born in different years
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/03/twins-born-in-separate-years-by-parents-choice/
Have you heard about this? What are your thoughts? Perfectly acceptable? Totally irresponsible? Would you do it if the opportunity were presented to you?
Re: Your thoughts: Babies born in different years
It actually kind of irks me. I get the sense that it was done more with publicity and novelty in mind than the health of the babies. The article mentions they scheduled the C section to avoid "complications" but not what those complications are. It makes me wonder if those complications were really worse than the complications inherent in delivering a baby a month early.
Plus, the fact that it was scheduled to happen this way makes it far less interesting (and more obnoxious), IMO.
I don't see why anyone should really care. There twins with different birthdays in a different year. Wouldn't be any different than twins being born with different birthdays in the same year. I don't think they were in harm medically, so why not?
It's a good when filing taxes if anything. They can claim one for each year. Hopefully get some good money back each time.
I think its kinda lame. Whats the point? To have a few minutes of fame??
Nothing particulary wrong with it, and to each their own but not something I would chose to do. I think if it had actually happened naturally that way, it would be cool, but since they chose to do it, eh whatev.
This is pretty much how I feel
It's actually bad for taxes. You get to claim your kids every year (not just the year they're born). If they had both babies in 2010, they'd get to deduct both on their 2010 taxes, and their 2011 taxes. But, now they'll only get to deduct one baby for 2010. They just lost $1000 for the child tax credit. Plus another $365 - $912 (how much they would have saved from the child/dependent deduction, depending on their tax bracket). That's $1365 - $1912 in cold hard cash they just kissed goodbye for a publicity stunt.
If the children were born naturally, I don't think it would be anyone's concern. However, it does concern me that their doctors -- who are supposed to know better and always do what is in the best interest of their patient's health -- were complicit in this. Early births (even when they happen naturally) are highly risky for the baby. If it was not 100% necessary to take the babies out right then and there, then the doctors actually did risk harm to those babies, because there are a lot of complications that can arise from a premature birth. Their lungs and brain aren't fully developed at 8 months, and it can affect their mental and physical development throughout their life. That doesn't seem so harmless to me.
1st baby born in 2011 in the bay area was not due until Valentine's Day. Makes me wonder if it was a c-sect that they planned that way (to be the 1st)
Personally, I'd rather be the last of 2010 and get that tax deduction.
Me too. It isn't really that interesting to me since it was planned.
This. And LOL at Dani actually doing the math!!
Meh. Gimmicky. I feel like the kind of ridiculousness that people pull these days is so common that I'm really not surprised anymore.
Anyway, the real reason I posted was to say how adorable it is that Dani got into the math of it
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