I love these topics. It's like how every little girl imagines what her wedding will be like...Now we're imagining baby stuff!

By now, I'll take whatever month I can get! I wasn't too keen on having a summer or winter baby. Summer is too hot and busy, and I want to make cupcakes for my kid's class. Winter's options are limited. My friends are obsessed with only having outdoor parties. They have no idea what to do with kids indoors. So, when my friend found out she was due in October (she was trying for a September baby, but did the math wrong), she was upset. And I was so jealous! She thought it would be too cold (up in NY) to have birthday parties outside. I'm an October baby - October 19th, and I loved all my parties! I LOVE autumn, and wanted an October baby so badly, so I can share all the fun times I had - apple and pumpkin picking, haunted hayrides, leaf changing! Love it! I wasn't a huge cake fan as a kid, and I'd always ask for apple pie (or cannolis) instead.

How about you? For those with kids, already, what are some of the benefits to having a summer baby? (The way things are going, I might have a summer baby!)

What an interesting thought! I am the same, at this point.. baby any time please, but I do have a weird concern of having a baby born in May. (sorry to those born in this month!) I am not too astrological, but follow loosely and my sister was a may baby and she fits the gemini twins to a T!! She definitely has two personalities!! Plus, gemini's and pisces (which I am) aren't supposed to get along because of how different the "personalties" can be. Other than that, having a summer baby would be fun for me, although I think for my DH's sake, having the baby closing to fall/winter would be ideal since he loves being outdoors and a baby so little would prevent that. If I became due in June, then a lot of the months in my family would have a birthday in them.. so far Jan-May, July and Sept. all have birthdays sooo it would be cool to continue filling the gaps! . Fall would be a wonderful time to have a baby, but that right now is too far off for me to be patient for! HAHA, but that IS one of my most favorite times of the year. Everything is soo beautiful, the colors, the smells, wonderful! But at this point, seriously I'll take any month!

I am going to say fall is a great time to have a babe.....Not too hot, not too cold (although here is Canada it is sometimes hard to get out in the winter months to have walks with a little babe, depending on the temp) But when you have a fall babe you need to be super preggo during the summer (which would not be bad this summer, but the summer DS was born were record high temps! ) However the up side is that when summer comes around the next year, lo will be old enough to do lots of things outside (which I loved). And not too much driving in the winter while really preggo! which is nice.

I don't know what it will be like to have a spring babe. I will be really preg over the winter and I drive all day and this worries me. Also here we get one year mat leave, so by the time lo is a year, I won't have the summer off with him/her (which I did with DS) just the winter, and as far as i am concerned that stinks...what fun this can you do outside when the weather is - 30 dgrees????

This is a fun topic to read !

Meditrina, where in Canada if you don't mind sharing? I live in Toronto- I take it your home is even colder .

I didn't want a Christmas baby because I'm paranoid that there would be no doctors on duty, and I wouldn't want the kid's bday to be the same time as Christmas- fun should be better distributed throughout the year:). We didn't start trying until April to avoid December, but if I'm still not pregnant next March, we won't skip a month because of this I'm pretty sure...
I was a May baby and so are many of my friends and family, so a May baby would be awesome- and this is the month for May, so X your fingers for me ?
Other than that, I agree, baby anytime, I'll be happy.

This is fun to think about!
As another Canadian on this board (Niagara area), the weather actually plays a huge role on when I would like to have a baby -- Spring or Summer are my preferences as getting out and about with the baby would be so much easier without having to worry about snow gear and snow and cold temperatures. I would hate to feel house bound.

For selfish maternity leave reasons, September would be a great time to have a baby as well -- I'm a teacher, and it would mean that my year of mat. leave would coincide with the entire school year. It's really hard to start the year with your kids and not be able to finish it with them as I get really attached to all of them.

Who am I kidding? I'll have a baby whenever, without any complaints!!

If I could pick the month, I'd go with October, just because there's no family birthdays or holidays in October. Though really a June baby would be great too, because we have 4 older children, all of whom we homeschool, so if we had a baby in June it would be better for our school scheduling. But really none of us care about the timing, we all just want another baby in the house.

wow, that is so awesome you get a year maternity leave in Canada!!! I think we get like 3 or 4 mos, but I can't wait. Just to have that time to spend with the new baby everyday, one on one, it will be so awesome. With me being a nurse, and DH a firefighter, I will be able to go back to work, and organize our schedules so that one of us is always with the baby. As far as a month that I would prefer, being in CA, the weather really isn't much of a factor, but I am in school right now, so anytime from May-August would be prefect, so I would be in summer break, and then just have to go back for my last semester. In fact, if I don't get pg in the next 3 months to facilitate that, we re going to hold off trying until March, so that I wouldn't have to give birth half way through my last semester, but I really really hope it happens these next couple of months!

This has been a topic of much discussion for us, I work in a Jewelery store so I know what months I dont want becasue the color of the birthstone doesn't look good with mine and my hubbys. I also dont want to have a baby at christmas because I was a late Dec. Baby and I hate it. Now on a searious note, we have been trying for two years with nothing, so i will take any month I can get : )

I am so glad to have found this topic! fun! Cause now I know other people think about this as much as I do...ever since we started TTC I've thought about this. At first, I wanted to stay away from Jan/Feb birthday and September, because I know SOOOOOO MANY people born in those months. Actually- total tangent- I would love to do a study on the number of babies born in any given month and find out popularity...I think Feb/Sept would be in a close race for 1st place, and then to understand why that is... NEW YEARS or SPRING FEVER conceptions!!!! haha. But anyway... back to the birthdays. Yes, at this point I'll take whatever I can get and whatever God gives us,... but then in thinking about those months I realized that so many of the cool people in my life were born in Jan/Feb and Sept, so I wouldn't mind those months at all! DH is Jan and I'm Feb, and my mom is Feb, and I always thought it was so cool to celebrate our birthdays together...family traditions. And my sis and my dad are 3 days apart in September, so same thing there...
I know I use "associations" some... like "what people do I know that were born in X month" and evaluate that. I also think about the year, Chinese zodiac too...
I used to think about "what months are already not totally consumed with birthdays...THAT is the month I want"... like June or August in my life... and another friend told me that early fall (Sept) is good for insurance purposes (get pg, meet your deductible and then still on same calendar year for the first few months of life)... hm, so here I am with Sept again!
But then with the fall I think of being hot and pg in the summer time and that sounds miserable... and it would be nice to give birth in the early spring when all the snow melts and you want to get out of the house soon...
then I think about summertime and all the kids in my kid's class who would get to celebrate their birthdays at school and mine wouldn't get the party... haha!
DH thinks I'm insane for always weighing all these considerations... at the end of the day, God will give me what He will give me. LOL!

Such a fun topic!

I always wanted a spring baby for some reason, probably since my birthday is in spring, and it always is so nice with all the flowers coming out and it starting to warm up. Ideally I don't want a summer baby because then their birthday isn't during school and I worried about not getting kids to come to birthday parties (silly concern I know!). I also don't really want a New Years baby or Christmas baby or really any holiday. I always liked my birthday because it wasn't near any holidays really. But of course at this point who cares!

Jayne