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December 2010 Moms
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Christmas Due Date?
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I'm not sure how I feel about this! What a crappy birthday, I know I'm supposed to be happy about everything, but I think being born on Christmas would suck. (Both for the newbie, and for my 4 y/o) I know! I know! I should be happy about the baby at all.... But
Anyone else due on Christmas eve or Christmas? How do you feel about it?
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Re: Christmas Due Date?
My husband and I were at a fertility doctor and knew that there was a potential to be due right around Christmas, even though it wouldn't be our first choice for a birthday, we were just thrilled to be pregnant.
Some advice for Christmas birthdays, that I have heard, are to make them special for that child. A lady I work with has a daughter who is born right around Christmas, maybe the day before or day after (she told me about this a long time ago), but anyway, she said that she would never wrap any of her birthday presents in Christmas paper. She made sure to use only birthday paper for her presents, to allow her to have a special birthday just like any other kid.
This is what my husband and I have decided will will probably do, so that our child has a special birthday.
My brother was born 12/30 and always seemed to get gypped.
We almost avoided our BFP cycle for this reason. I am SO happy we didn't!
My brother and his wife had their first on Christmas day. They celebrated his b-day on Martin Luther King Day instead. I don't think we're going to do that. But with the history in my family and DH's, an EDD of 12.20 probably means a 2011 baby for me anyway.
I was JUST thinking about how often on TTGP people were discussing avoiding TTC in March b/c of a Xmas baby, and all the conflict that caused. I am so glad people didn't do that or this board would be dead!
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ME!
I don't think I could be more excited about it! IMHO, I don't see why people get so worked up over a baby being born on a holiday. I think it's a very special thing to happen. I just had a talk with my DH that no matter what craziness the holidays may bring we need to always keep in mind the LO's birthday....that is of course with the assumption that they actually arrive on 12/25 which is highly unlikely since I believe it's only 20% are actually delivered on their due date.
I'm due Christmas Eve.
Honestly, I'm just so happy to be pg again and hope hope hope that this will be our take home baby. We didn't even stop to consider it since the only thing we care about this time is a healthy baby.
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I'm due Christmas Day and completely freaked out by it.
Two years ago, my aunt died on Christmas Day. Last year I lost my third child to m/c on Christmas Day... this year I'm due on Christmas Day. I know I'm being paranoid but it's unsettling nonetheless.
Personally - I don't care jack squat about the day, but I can see how, as a child, one might feel cheated somehow.
I wouldn't worry about it. I think its like 20% of people actually deliver on their due date, so it most likely won't be right on Christmas. My birthday is 12/21 and we always had my party early dec, sometimes even late nov. It was just more convenient for people to come and I never felt like it was lumped together with Christmas.
I agree with PP - NEVER wrap a birthday present in Christmas paper! I have had that happen a couple of times (never my parents) and it definitely takes away from the birthday experience.
We are due on Christmas, and to be honest it is not my first choice. But we are still happy!
I have two nephews born within days of Christmas. They always celebrate their "half birthday" in June with a big outdoor party. Their birthday is more private with just immediate family. We will probably do something like this.
Both my birthday and my sister's are right after Christmas. My mom would always celebrate our "half birthday's" also in the summer. This way we didn't feel like we were getting slighted.
We would get a few small gifts, a birthday cupcake, etc. It wasn't a huge thing but it always made us feel super special!!
We were going to skip this month and then I O'ed on my husband's birthday and we saw it as fate's little push! I delivered in week 36 with my DD, so I'm hoping to deliver this one a little earlier too and at least catch early December.
My EDD is 12/26. It will be a scheduled c-section so I'm sure I'll have that a week or 2 early.
This probably wouldn't be my first choice birthday but I'm not going to complain.
The suggestion to always try and use birthday wrapping for birthday presents is a very good one. One good thing about a Christmas birthday is that you'll always have family together and can have a big family birthday party.
DS's birthday is on Jan 2nd, so he's a week after Xmas- also blows! My poor kids! I'm due 12/22 with this one- we were going to wait until May so we didn't have TWO holiday babies!! Whoops!
We'll just try to make it super special and maybe have a big joint pool party in the summer to extra-celebrate!
I'm due on the 23rd, but will be prepared for it to be on Christmas or Christmas Eve. I'm just thrilled to be pregnant! But I will feel a little bad for the baby because I work with little ones and I have yet to meet a child who is happy to have their Birthday on this of all holidays.... They always seem to feel jipped and I think I would too. Lol.
That being said, I agree with others that you can still make it special and if nothing else...celebrate it a day early or late. As long as they still feel special that's all that counts.
Congrats!
Wow! I was off doing teeball yesterday and bible study this morning and haddn't checked back in until just now on this thread. When I saw the little red thing by it I thought, "Oh no! I made people mad by not LOVING the due date." I'm relieved to see a lot of you have some of the same feelings as I do.
Don't get me wrong, I love my new little life! I just know this one particular due date is going to require a little fanangling Also, it might make THIS holiday season hard on my son who is 4 and at the perfect age to love the magic of Christmas. (He is so the kid who would watch Christmas movies all year long)
I love what some of you said about it being Christmas and therefore everyone will be together, and about being sure to keep it separate, I think I might go for celebrating at the .5 year mark just to make sure there is real separation though. I have two family members born on Jan 1st and they get nothing for their birthdays! I feel so bad for them, it's a total afterthought by everyone in my family, so I think for us the .5 year celebration would be best??? Maybe... Sorry! I just found out about this so, I'm still a little bemused!