What's up with all the late year birthdays? Is it to game the system for starting kindergarten?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: No, it's because snowmaggedon was 5 years and 9 months ago. Everyone was stuck at home for a long period of time.

I know, our oldest turns 5 this week.

Lol mine too.

Ours also, after trying to get pregnant for over three years it happened. Snowmaggedon was the trick!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snowmageddon was accountable for a 400% increase in Fall births in this area according to the local hospitals. It was in the Washington Post at the time.

This. No, people weren't gaming the system, but the snarky former-TTC people need to chill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snowmageddon was accountable for a 400% increase in Fall births in this area according to the local hospitals. It was in the Washington Post at the time.

Just because it's in the Washington Post, that doesn't mean it's true.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/08/02/so-is-there-a-snowmageddon-baby-boom-or-not/

[Anonymous]

Huh. Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering. The huge number of October and November birthdays in my DS's preschool class is mind boggling, the list of November birthdays in one of his other classes is unbelievably long, and I've seen a ton of very pregnant women who looked like they would be due in late October or November. Could this be related to gaming the system for kindergarten--get an extra year of preschool and enter K as one of the oldest kids while avoiding the stigma of potentially redshirting? Before I moved here, I knew very few people with October or November birthdays.[/quote]

Ask the turnip truck to turn around and take you back. You might feel more at home back at the compound with the rest of the paranoid militia men.

[Anonymous]

My DC with a birthday next week was a Valentine's Day deed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering. The huge number of October and November birthdays in my DS's preschool class is mind boggling, the list of November birthdays in one of his other classes is unbelievably long, and I've seen a ton of very pregnant women who looked like they would be due in late October or November. Could this be related to gaming the system for kindergarten--get an extra year of preschool and enter K as one of the oldest kids while avoiding the stigma of potentially redshirting? Before I moved here, I knew very few people with October or November birthdays.

Yes, OP

The latest trend is to plan late fall pregnancies so that children will have a leg up - be the biggest and the brightest in class.

those poor infertile fools who have to rely on IVF w/o much of a chance to decide WHEN to plan their babies! What if they have May babies???? the horror

[Anonymous]

Both my kids are born in November. It was because the holidays made us feel that someone was missing from the family, and it took me few months to get pregnant after that. It certainly was no plot to game the system, which is a pretty bizarre theory.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and I aimed for the spring so my maternity leave would flow right into summer vacation. I got a mid April baby so I was close! If I didn't have finances to think about, I would aim for the fall too. It is easier being older in school today. Usually more mature. I didn't have the money to pay for an extra year of daycare though.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what made me happier about an early April due date -- not being pregnant in the summer or not having to think about whether DC would be an early/late birthday. Initially, I'd have said not being pregnant in summer, but...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and I aimed for the spring so my maternity leave would flow right into summer vacation. I got a mid April baby so I was close! If I didn't have finances to think about, I would aim for the fall too. It is easier being older in school today. Usually more mature. I didn't have the money to pay for an extra year of daycare though.

I'm also a teacher and tried to aim for a spring baby to maximize my maternity leave. Instead I got a mid June baby. TTC took six months, and I couldn't afford to be too picky at age 37.

[Anonymous]

Lol. I do agree that I've noticed a ton of nov/dec birthdays but I don't think anyone's gaming the system. The Valentine's thing makes sense. I guess everyone in this area is a lot more romantic than I thought.

[Anonymous]

We were TTC. One month we had sex, and I got knocked up. I'm due in December. End of story.

[Anonymous]

A quick Google found this interesting visual of the most common birthdays: http://thedailyviz.com/2012/05/12/how-common-is-your-birthday/

It's based on a compilation of birthdays from 1973-1999.

A glance shows September is the most popular month, but July - November is hot.

Which also explains why many people feel so many kids are redshirted. That's a large percentage of kids born in July-September, the prime redshirting months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering. The huge number of October and November birthdays in my DS's preschool class is mind boggling, the list of November birthdays in one of his other classes is unbelievably long, and I've seen a ton of very pregnant women who looked like they would be due in late October or November. Could this be related to gaming the system for kindergarten--get an extra year of preschool and enter K as one of the oldest kids while avoiding the stigma of potentially redshirting? Before I moved here, I knew very few people with October or November birthdays.[/quote]

Ask the turnip truck to turn around and take you back. You might feel more at home back at the compound with the rest of the paranoid militia men.

Inserting politics into a nonpolitical discussion is what we would call . . . nongermane. Perhaps the meds are in now?