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Holiday Baby if You Could Avoid It?
So I was bored yesterday and did one of those online fertility calcultors that gives you your most fertile days and then a potential due date. I got my results and I had to start laughing. Three of my possible due dates were Oct 31, Nov 26, and Dec 25 (aka, Halloween, just after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day). I know that these are only potential due dates and not at all anything set in stone, but it got me thinking (and since I'm bored at work I figured I'd post about it!). If you could plan to avoid having a baby on or around a holiday, would you? I know that I really shouldn't care when I'd have a baby and just focus instead on getting KU but I figured it'd be good discussion 
Re: Holiday Baby if You Could Avoid It?
My last m/c had a dd of 12/25. I was thinking how much that would stink for the kid.
MH acts like a child a lot. He gets upset because his birthday is Feb 17th. Then there's Valentines day right before & our anniversary is the 20th. He feels as if he gets screwed & I don't give his birthday the attention it deserves. Ha.
We have a tentative c section date of 2/14, so I was wondering if it would be a big deal for a guy to have his birthday on Valentine's day. It will likely get moved up, but it has had me thinking...
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This.
Word. I still ended up getting KU in October 2010.
I wouldn't mind a holiday baby. I think family members wouldn't "put two gifts/celebrations together." My mom was born 2 weeks before t-giving, and my grandmother 3 days before Christmas, and we always made sure to celebrate each separately.
Lol, I didn't even think about being pregnant during summer, oops. Yeah, I'm sure that's not going to be fun, but if we start trying to get KU now I guess there's no way to really avoid it.
Good point about not worrying so much about Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I definitely wanted to avoid a December baby as much as possible. Both my BIL, SIL (his wife), and their daughter all have birthdays in December all within three weeks of Christmas and I figured that's more than enough birthdays for that month in the family. Plus with DH's in January that's a lot of gift buying in a two month span!
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This is what I try to rationalize with myself (and what DH has said). At the end of the day, what happens happens and as long as it's a healthy baby, who cares when it's born.
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Bummer Babygator! Sorry to bring up a sore subject
Yeah, DH's brother is just over a week before Christmas and even then he said it still kind of sucked being that close to the holiday because he felt like he got gipped too, lol.
Hm, good point. I guess you'd just have to make a conscious effort to make sure that you celebrate each thing separately.
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LOL! We do a "half birthday" for Hannah, or at least we did this year. MIL always makes sure to go out of her way to do two different celebrations for her. It's cute. I think it's neat to have a birthday around Christmas/New Years so I guess I am in the minority.
My birthday is 3 weeks before x-mas. I realize it's not right on, before or after xmas, but I have never felt that my own special day was in jeopardy...
I had actually never thought about this when we were TTC, and it won't ever be an issue since our family is complete
est. 10/10/10