What's it like having your baby born around Christmas?

[melham74]

on bringing things forward a month so she can have parties full of friends from school in November.

we also do this on the last weekend of school have their birthday party, my sisters and Hubby's idea as they both always missed out

[Snacks]

Hey Ren, Natalie was born on the 27th, which is also her daddy's birthday. DH hated that his birthday was so close to Christmas, but what can you do?
I've decided to give her a few gifts in the middle of the year so she has something to break it up... (I tried just putting things away, but I couldn't help myself!) I think it's a good idea to buy things through the year and save them up for Christmas and birthday too, so that its not as expensive.
I know that DH will always make a big deal out of her birthday because he doesn't want her to miss out. So I'm not worried about the future. I reckon we might have an early birthday party for her in the school years, maybe every other year, so she doesn't miss out on that either.
In terms of the pregnancy, I didn't get annoyed by the questions. If you're pregnant you always get asked the same questions by everyone anyway, so what's one more? And in terms of staff, we had no complaints. Natalie was due on the 20th, and we began to talk about induction. If she hadn't have come on her own, we would've had to wait until New Years to be induced because of all the public holidays, etc. But that didn't bother me.
Hope it happens soon for you!

[Shanti]

Curl - yeah we must have been typing same time perhaps? not sure but thanks so much for your story! thats great to know the hospital care is the same on xmas day as it is any other day of the year, as i suspected it would and should be anyway!!

Thanks everyone for your stories!!! There's many positives to having a baby iN December! and a few other sides to the story aswell lol but i guess it's just a matter of working around it hey...? Anyway it was nice to hear of experiences with babies born around xmas time just incase that is what will happen for our baby.... whatever happens, a healthy baby is all that matters and it's birth date is only a small part of the important stuff :P (does that make sense?!? lol)sorry bit tired... what im saying is that i can't be fussy with the baby's due date, whatever we are blessed with is what we will be more than happy with!! as we want a baby more than anything! as you all can relate to.

** thats a great idea what someone said about having the childs birthday pushed forward 1mth earlier so they can have a kids party etc before everyone goes on holidays etc