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

[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.

Gotcha. I wanted an excuse to have sex only one week per year, and this was it. DH bought into it. And now we have a beautiful November 11th baby (to celebrate Veteran's Day).

[Anonymous]

The busiest time of the year for IVF clinics is January because people switch insurance plans for IVF benefits and can begin to cycle in Jan. Also, many of the clinics close in December because they take a 2 week holiday break to clean the lab, etc. So this leads to a larger than normal cohort of people who do IVF cycles in Jan/early Feb which means Oct or early Nov births.
I know because I have 2 October IVF kids. We cycled as soon as we possibly could after Jan 1 and ended up with a Oct 12th due date.

I bet there is something to this phenomenon in this type of area of the country where there are quite a few fertility clinics.

[Anonymous]

Growing up, I knew lots of people with mid-November birthdays. I just assumed it was Valentine's Day.

[Anonymous]

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

Exactly this, until my twins were born at 33 weeks - in October. So even if all goes according to "plan" in the beginning, it doesn't always work out that way.

They also turned five recently. The nurses at the hospital when they were born were joking about all the Snowmageddon babies born that week.

[Anonymous]

Even if people are planning fall birthdays, how is that gaming the system?? They are still sending their kids to K on time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You seriously think that people are timing their intercourse based on kindergarten for the child they are timing their child to conceive? In your theory, what happens if someone doesn't conceive in the appropriate redshirt window? Put their dreams of a family on hold for another year?

I just finished perusing 'Primates of Fifth Avenue' novel about, well, filthy rich people living on the Upper East Side, and that's exactly what the author claimed, that those women did time their IVFs so that their children would be born in the fall and have a leg up in their respective private schools.

FWIW.

[Anonymous]

I was pissed when I had an October baby. Paying for an extra year of daycare was not cool.

[Anonymous]

It was snowmageddon and that just happened to be when I got pregnant. We had tried for a couple of months. My baby turns 5 in a couple of days.

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What system are they gaming?

[Anonymous]

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

Seriously. OP, not everything is a conspiracy or a scheme to redshirt. So funny.

We have a Dec. baby because I got pregnant in April. I got pregnant in April because it took a few months to conceive (we started when DC1 was 2yo). I would have picked another summer birthday if I could have!

Take off the tinfoil hat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ding ding ding! Stupidest post ever!

SERIOUSLY. you are all idiots (in a nice way). NEW YEARS' EVE!!!! My entire family - late September/october babies.

[Anonymous]

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

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

Where I live now, we had a major power outage due to snow in Feb. Nine months later there's a baby boomlet. I remember one of the county commissioners making a joke that people were playing with more than cards lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The busiest time of the year for IVF clinics is January because people switch insurance plans for IVF benefits and can begin to cycle in Jan. Also, many of the clinics close in December because they take a 2 week holiday break to clean the lab, etc. So this leads to a larger than normal cohort of people who do IVF cycles in Jan/early Feb which means Oct or early Nov births.
I know because I have 2 October IVF kids. We cycled as soon as we possibly could after Jan 1 and ended up with a Oct 12th due date.

I bet there is something to this phenomenon in this type of area of the country where there are quite a few fertility clinics.

thats my story too

[Anonymous]

Good grief. What is with the paranoid anti-redshirters on this board? It's really bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

Where I live now, we had a major power outage due to snow in Feb. Nine months later there's a baby boomlet. I remember one of the county commissioners making a joke that people were playing with more than cards lol.

Is there contraception where you live now?