September is a popular month to be born!! « Back to Group Discussions

[judybean]

So, since we're the September DDC, I figured this was of interest to those of us here!

Looks like our babies will have plenty of companions to celebrate birthdays with according to this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/most-common-birthdays-infographic_n_1521426.html

Basically, it says that the 10 most common days to be born on are ALL IN SEPTEMBER!  The dates of: 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, and 24 in September are the most common days to be born on!  I thought it was wild that ALL of the TOP TEN were in September!

This data is based on babies born in the US between 1973-1999.  And.. pretty much indicates that people like to "get it on" around Christmas and New Year's!

Just an interesting read :)  I never knew September was such a popular month for babies!  (three of mine are March, the other is Christmas Eve)

[MissE]

Yeah, Christmas baby for us :). I didn't feel like sharing that bottle of Riesling on December 25 at my MIL house :). I also didn't feel like fighting my husband off later that night LOL so...here we are. September 19 is the date and I'm guessing September 23rd though for some reason.

[Carson]

No holiday romance for us... DH was leaving for work on Dec 24 when I checked my CBEFM and stopped him at the door. Ah well it makes for a good story for anyone who has dealt with actively TTC

[katt]

i wish I could say it was a romantic holiday interlude, but... it was more like "here's our window this month, let's make it work'.  LOL

[hyde]

Christmas Eve in New Orleans. ;) And weirdly, I knew right away. We went to see the bonfires on the Mississippi later that night and I remember teasing my husband about doing x, y, and z for the future mother of his child (including, happily, buying a light-up bonfire souvenir, which I'll treasure for many Christmases to come!). 

My question is, what's up with the 11th-14th and 19th-20th? Those are results of the 'I'm too busy getting ready to deal with all of these family events' and 'I'm too exhausted from all the holiday activities' days? :-p

[MadiMamacita]

I had heard a while ago that August was the most common birth month. I guess not anymore!

HYDE- we were in new Orleans right around then too! I think we got home a few days before Christmas.

Our baby was either concieved on the 12 th or the 15 th. And it was also more of a "window of opportunity" type thing.

[MissE]

Our baby is the result of a screwed up cycle. I took my temps for three years but got lazy, just because it was so on time. Well,not so much in December. I ovulated a week early and we DTD two days before ovulation...bad timing huh? I call it bad timing. I also admit that I was not happy about being pregnant. I was devastated. We had just recently come to terms to only have two and while my DH always wanted another baby I was just absolutely against it. I just started my fitness jobs and even though it was stressful I had it all worked out. I made some money, not much but enough to help out paying some bills. Oh well...here we are, getting ready for our bonus-baby. I will have my tubes tied later on though. No more chances. Better yet, DH can have a vasectomy too LOL..and I'll take the pill ha...no really. I love babies but I don't like the early stages of infanthood. I'm sorry this is so negative, I know some of you were really trying for another baby. It's just the way I felt or feel about it. We're happy now, we're in a good place. We're not rich but it's ok...we have health insurance and a nice house that can fit one more in. There's plenty of love left in our hearts and I LOVE that my older two get to see me be pregnant. I also can't wait to set a good example about breastfeeding with DD (and DS for that matter) :). Just hope it'll stick with her for later on.

[wendipauline]

It was December 20th and we had been at a holiday party... where I had been making and drinking many delicious rosemary gin fizzes

[help007]

So funny- I remember the evening, but not the date: Honey, the IUD is gone. If you don't want another, I'll leave the birth control up to you! Though I must admit that, because I really wanted a third, I didn't bring it up during a calm, neutral moment.

[MIrandaM]

Our LO was conceived on the 20th of December,  our first month TTC after being told that we'd have a hard time getting pregnant :)

We were eating really well - doing a WAPF/GAPS style 'fertility diet' and I was charting, I remember noticing some particularly fertile CM . . . dancing my arms through the air dramatically and proclaiming gleefully to DH that 'the fertility window is wide open and the sun is shining in!'  Luckily he knew I was off my rocker before we got married ;) We DTD that evening and tahdahh, boy-boy (as we like to call him) is due Sep. 12th. 
 

Evi, I'm also kind of fixated on a 'likely' day the baby will come - the 18th, not sure why but it feels right to me. 

[teegan db]

I don't know the exact date (my cycles this past year were wonkier than ever, between 29 and 36 days), but we'd stopped using any protection in June, and my parents live 16 hours away, but I wanted to tell them in person when we found out. We were hoping it would happen before we went down south to see them in July - it didn't. We were hoping it would happen before they came to help us move in August - it didn't. We were hoping it would happen before I saw them at my cousin's wedding in October - it didn't. We were hoping it would happen before I went to my sister's college graduation in December - it didn't. We were hoping it would happen before we saw them at New Year's at my aunt's house, and apparently we WERE, but we just didn't know it yet.

So I guess my body was just waiting for me to relax about getting the chance to tell them before it did what it needed to...?

Of course, because of the way schedules work out, I haven't seen them since then, but we're going down next month for a long weekend!