2 kids sharing (or almost sharing) the same BDay?

J&JSuiter070205

Just curious... my son was born 12/28 and this baby is due 12/31 so there is certainly a chance that our kids will share the same birthday or withn a week or so of one another. Just wondering if you throw parties together or make a point of having them separate, etc?

lsufan

My older sister and I shared a birthday, and our younger sister was born the day before our birthday.  We did have some shared parties, especially while we were young and invited all of the kids in the neighborhood.  As we got older, we had separate friends and separate parties.

ETA:  I loved sharing a birthday with my sisters.  It was something special about our family, and it never occurred to me that I needed my own day or anything like that. 

bumpuser260585

My brother's bday is 3 days after mine. We had shared family parties, but separate friends parties.

mrs-rogers

my nephew and 2 nieces were born 2nd, 8th and 11th . right now they all share a party but as they get older they will have seperate partys.

Littlejen22

lsufan:

My older sister and I shared a birthday, and our younger sister was born the day before our birthday.  We did have some shared parties, especially while we were young and invited all of the kids in the neighborhood.  As we got older, we had separate friends and separate parties.

ETA:  I loved sharing a birthday with my sisters.  It was something special about our family, and it never occurred to me that I needed my own day or anything like that. 

This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

DD's due date was 12/28 and she came early on DS' 2nd birthday.  I was pretty unhappy about it at first but have accepted it.  Right now they do not know any different, people are always shocked when they here it but usually make positive comments about how special that is. 

So far they have shared all their birthday parties.  I have created separate invites for DS' school friends, one year it said they were invited to a joint party as a guest of DS and the next year I did not mention DD on it at all...I think this year I will go back to the first wording.  I will have joint parties until when/if one of them asks for a separate party.  If one wants a separate party they will get it without argument from me, neither of their party will be on their actual birthday that year though.  Not every year will be big like we plan for this year but we will always do something special as a family on their actual birthday.  This year we have a few days unused from our timeshare so we are exchanging for one about an hour away that has an indoor pool, we will spend 2 nights there so the kids can swim during the day.  DS will go to school on the morning of his birthday so he can bring in a treat and celebrate too.  Right now though DD does not have any friends besides my friend's kids though.

If DD came on her scheduled c-section date of 12/19 I planned on doing separate birthday parties b/c I felt bad that they would have to share when they are so close to Christmas.  Honestly though, I cannot imagine having 2 December birthday parties, especially since between me and my two closest friends we have 5 kids with December birthdays.  They should have shared a party until they wanted separate which I think would have happened younger if they did not share a birthday.

monkeyqueen

Natalie = July 23, Dominic = July27... They had a joint bday party this year.  Although, we did have a cake on Natalie's real bday (the party was on Dominic's bday).   I don't know what will happen next year.   

Jessys_Girl

J&JSuiter070205:

Just curious... my son was born 12/28 and this baby is due 12/31 so there is certainly a chance that our kids will share the same birthday or withn a week or so of one another. Just wondering if you throw parties together or make a point of having them separate, etc?

My Stepson is March 15th and my DD was born March 18th.  We did their party together last year and will probably do the same this year.  Partly because my neice's b-day is March 11th....so usually her party is one weekend and then we do our party the next.  I wouldn't want to tie up the family for THREE weekends in a row.

kcisthebombdotcom

My kids birthdays are less than a month apart. We'll do joint parties until they're older and request separate parties.

shouldbworkin

My nephews bdays are 11 days apart.  My sister has done joint family parties, but they each have their own friend party and day of celebration with their immediate family. 

aldog70

My 2nd and 3rd are February 25th and February 3rd, respectively. We have always had shared parties. It is too much to do it all twice in a short amount of time. We do something on their actually birthday with just the six of us. Usually consists of special dinner, cake and gifts from us.

AnnapolisLari

My kids' birthdays are 6 days apart in December.

So far we've done separate celebrations, but it's just been immediate family. I think we're going to do a party at a local farm park, so it will be a joint party. Too expensive otherwise. When they get a little older and have friend parties, I will do separate ones.

Ciarrai

DD2 and DS's birthdays are 10 days apart.  Last year, we did separate parties two weeks apart because it was DS's first birthday.  I would have probably done a joint family party, but none of our family live close by.  We might do joint parties for now since they're only 2 years apart in age and a lot of the same friends get invited - mostly family friends and friends from their preschool that they both go to.  Once DD2 starts Kindy and has different friends, I'm guessing we'll do separate again.  I think it depends on the kids, though, and their friends.  Your DS will be 5 when your LO is born so then that's a 6-year-old birthday combined with a 1-year-old.  I would just worry they would like different things and the 1-year-old might not enjoy his birthday at all if you did something like a Chuck-e-Cheese type thing (not that I'm recommending Chuck-e-cheese EVER, but you know what I mean).  I definitely think joint family parties are the way to go if your family is local.  I know mine would go nuts trying to make it to two parties in a row.

baby*love

My oldest is born April 6 and this baby is due March 25th so I'm anticipating they will be about 2ish weeks apart.

This year she'll turn 5 (and I'll have an itty bitty newborn) but next year the baby will turn 1 while she'll be turning 6. Plus, we are expecting a boy so that changes it u too. I think in the future we'll do a shared family party at the house for them but their age gap and interests will be too much to actually share a friend party. DD is already talking about bounce place parties and swimming parties with preschool friends and DS on the way won't graduate from "house parties" for a few years at least

Another thought I had was having the family/cake part with the grandparents and relatives the week between both of the birthdays (my H's whole side is OOT so I can't expect them to come in more than 1x in a few week span) and having the "kid" parties maybe a week early for DS and a week later for DD to make it more like a month apart... easier on me!

GL!

DandRAgain

2 of my kids are 5 days apart.

The first year, we had a joint birthday party...they were both still only doing family type parties..not really friends. 

Second year, they wanted their own. (well my older DD wanted her own, my 2 year old didn't care)

Third year was their own.

Fourth was together at a bounce place.

So basically, I give the choice to my kids.  I will make it work either way.  But I want it to be THEIR choice.

caymanbride

My boys are July 25 and July 27. My plan is do shared family parties forever. When they are older they can certainly have their own friend parties, and we'll have their own celebrations on the actual days.

mikeandmonica

My boys had the same due date and ended up one day apart for birthdays.  Each year we make sure to celebrate their actual birthdays (going to dinner) wherever they want to go individually.  Their birthday parties are combined right now for family stuff, so after they have friend parties, they will be separate if that is what they want.  If they want to have a joint party - works for us!  But it will be their choice.

jlw2505

My brother and oldest sister have the same birthday, 2 years apart.  My mom actually went into labor during my brothers 2nd birthday party!  Growing up, thye sort of shared parties - My mom always did them at the house and one was upstairs in the living room and one was downstairs in the basement or if the weather was nice - they were outside.  Activites were separate but they did cake together but they each had their own cake.  It always worked out really well.  My mom always had relatives come and help out as she couldn't be in 2 places at once so she had others stationed at each party and she would go back and forth.