I haven't lied about my due date but I do have a semi-related confession... Based off my LMP my due date was 9/11, after the 6 week ultrasound it's 9/20, which is what the doctors go by of course. My confession is I'm kind of glad, I really don't want my daughter to associate her birthday with a tragedy or be teased about it. Even though it's not impossible she'll be born on 9/11.
I haven't lied about my due date but I do have a semi-related confession... Based off my LMP my due date was 9/11, after the 6 week ultrasound it's 9/20, which is what the doctors go by of course. My confession is I'm kind of glad, I really don't want my daughter to associate her birthday with a tragedy or be teased about it. Even though it's not impossible she'll be born on 9/11.
I'm due 9/16 with my 2nd, so everyone keeps telling me I'll probably go early. I secretly hope he doesn't come on 9/11 for the exact same reason.
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@runningisrad and @jln27 the good news is that even if they are, to their generation that day will mean less/be more distant. Similar to if we were born on 12/7 - you'd be aware the day has national meaning, but probably won't think too much of it. At least that's what I tell myself as I'm due 9/12
True, unless it turns into a holiday like memorial day or something. Doubt it will, but being born on/near a holiday comes with its own issues, lol.
My birthday occasionally lands on a "family centric" holiday, and growing up I almost never got to celebrate with friends because they were spending time with their families.
@jln27 that's so interesting! My birthday sometimes falls on Memorial Day and I love it! There's always a long weekend where we could go out of town to our cabin. I still spend my birthday there every year!
@jln27 I agree. My birthday sometimes falls on Easter or Good Friday. I don't care for it when it's actually on Easter because we end up not celebrating at all and have to spend the day with all of our separate group of families and it's always stressful. Good Friday isn't too bad though.
My due date is 9/11 but we told everyone 9/12 just to avoid those comments
I did this too! So much so that I listed it as my due date here and participated in Monday tinker change. My due date based on LMP is either 9/10 or 9/11 (I wasn't planning to conceive when I had my LMP so I didn't remember it exactly when January came), but I didn't want 9/11 to be the due date AND because I'm going for vbac #2, I wanted two extra days before scheduling a repeat c-section or induction at 41 weeks. I told my OB my LMP was the Monday so the due date would be 9/12. Early ultrasound agreed that it was close enough!
DD1 6.2011 DD2 4.2013 - vbac DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green Baby #4 due 9.2018
@toimadness1 Yep, I get Thanksgiving birthdays some years. And as a kid, even if my birthday wasn't actually on Thanksgiving day, it was near enough to it that I rarely ever got to celebrate it because family time. As an adult I don't mind as much, but it was pretty depressing as a kid having to wait a week or two weeks to celebrate, if I even got to celebrate at all, and then football overshadowing everything as well.
@jln27 I hear you on the football part...my birthday is almost always Super Bowl week. You wouldn't think that would make too much of a difference but it totally does! It didn't when I was a kid but as an adult, even trying to plan something low-key is hard because everybody always has SB plans!
@JennM205 It actually made a huge difference when I was a kid, and less of one as an adult. Mostly because all my adult friends are big nerds who don't like football, lol. But as a kid, there'd always be strange adults in the house so my dad could play host and my birthday was usually an afterthought. Like, a couple years I didn't get a birthday cake, because he made a cake for the football party and that was good enough.
If I had liked football at all it might have been okay, but I really didn't.
@JennM205 It actually made a huge difference when I was a kid, and less of one as an adult. Mostly because all my adult friends are big nerds who don't like football, lol. But as a kid, there'd always be strange adults in the house so my dad could play host and my birthday was usually an afterthought. Like, a couple years I didn't get a birthday cake, because he made a cake for the football party and that was good enough.
If I had liked football at all it might have been okay, but I really didn't.
Awww, this makes me so sad for little girl jln! I hope your adult birthdays have and continue to more than make up for your childhood ones...not that you can ever replace those jaded memories. Ugh!
I'm with you guys on the crappy birthdays. Mine is Christmas Eve and my parents owned an M&M Meat Shops, which is like a frozen food store. It was one of our busiest days because we sold appetizers and party foods. The whole family would have to work on my birthday and was always too exhausted to do anything. And if I wanted a birthday party with friends, it would have to be early December. And not to mention the lack of actual birthday present - I just got to open a Christmas present early. H makes sure I always have a different present wrapped in birthday, not Christmas, wrapping paper
@Shiva14 my XH bday is on 12/7 and even though he was born in 83 people always were like "oh pearl harbor day!" when i would mention it...i was like yah PHD... You really cant avoid it unfortunately
Aww, you guys! I didn't mean to start a pity party, lol. Thank you for the kind words. My adult birthdays are much better, and a lot more fun, so I don't mind the lack of kid birthdays anymore.
@RG1 I can't even imagine, Thanksgiving is bad enough. At least that holiday shifts around, so every 4-5 years my birthday is far away from Thanksgiving and not always right on top of it. I'm glad your husband makes an effort to acknowledge your birthday as separate from the holiday.
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My birthday occasionally lands on a "family centric" holiday, and growing up I almost never got to celebrate with friends because they were spending time with their families.
DD2 4.2013 - vbac
DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green
Baby #4 due 9.2018
If I had liked football at all it might have been okay, but I really didn't.
@RG1 I can't even imagine, Thanksgiving is bad enough. At least that holiday shifts around, so every 4-5 years my birthday is far away from Thanksgiving and not always right on top of it. I'm glad your husband makes an effort to acknowledge your birthday as separate from the holiday.