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

[Anonymous]

This is a dumb a$$ post

[Anonymous]

First was a snowmageddon baby. That's all the October/November babies turning 5.

My second is October because thats's when IVF worked.

[Anonymous]

We and others we know have Valentines Day babies, born in November. Oddly, our previous one was a Labor Day baby.

[Anonymous]

Huh-most people I know weigh October/November babies are bummed about paying for an extra year of daycare!

[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.

Do you really think this way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most people are happy to get pregnant whenever it happens.

+ 1. We had an October baby. Were lucky to get him after 3+ years of ttc.

Exactly. My experiences getting pregnant completely threw out the notion of planning a baby. When I hear people say things about wanting to have a baby a certain time of the year I just nod my head and laugh on the inside.

[Anonymous]

Isn't the cutoff before fall? Like August 31?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most people are happy to get pregnant whenever it happens.

+ 1. We had an October baby. Were lucky to get him after 3+ years of ttc.

Exactly. My experiences getting pregnant completely threw out the notion of planning a baby. When I hear people say things about wanting to have a baby a certain time of the year I just nod my head and laugh on the inside.

But for some of us it works like clock work.

I wanted a Sept. Bday and got knocked up first try 3 months before I turned 35 in December.

I wanted the second to be a spring/April bday and got knocked up first try at 37.5 in July.

I did use ovulation predictor .

[Anonymous]

When I was ttc my first born I was aiming for an August birthday because that was going to be the quietest month for my business and it fit with that. He arrived early Sept however.

So I guess I was "gaming" but not for K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ding ding ding! Stupidest post ever!

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most people are happy to get pregnant whenever it happens.

+ 1. We had an October baby. Were lucky to get him after 3+ years of ttc.

Exactly. My experiences getting pregnant completely threw out the notion of planning a baby. When I hear people say things about wanting to have a baby a certain time of the year I just nod my head and laugh on the inside.

But for some of us it works like clock work.

I wanted a Sept. Bday and got knocked up first try 3 months before I turned 35 in December.

I wanted the second to be a spring/April bday and got knocked up first try at 37.5 in July.

I did use ovulation predictor .

Cool story.

[Anonymous]

Yes, two children I adopted from China, I asked that they have late-in-the-year birthdays so, even though I was getting them when they were already 3 years old, I could at least ensure that they'd have a jumpstart on K. It was awesome, b/c, with all the "learning English"-thing and the "going to speech therapy"-thing, and "getting used to life in a family instead of in an institution with no parents"-thing, at least I knew they'd have a leg up in this one regard.

Grrrrrr.

STUPIDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Thinking about the data it seems there's a case for moving the cut offs to discourage red shirting and allow the critical mass of stuidents to start together.

[Anonymous]

CDC & states actually have data on births by month via Vital Records. August is almost always the highest, sometimes July. Even the CDC team says it probably coincides with 'staying home' in colder months. February almost always has a drop/the least births.

[A counter theory is some schools cluster kids by birthday as a developmental thing. DS's kinder class this year has 6 kids born within the same week in March. Or, that's just the way it is by luck of the dice roll.]

http://m.livescience.com/32728-baby-month-is-almost-here-.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/280242.html

https://www.quora.com/Are-birthdays-typically-evenly-distributed-throughout-a-population

http://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html

[Anonymous]

Well, I was trying for a June baby. Sometimes you take what you can get.