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What is the best month or months to have a baby? (your personal opinion, for fun only)
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Anonymous
I think PP is referring to the tax benefit of having a baby before 12/31, so that you can claim the deduction. There was an article somewhere about the high number of inductions & scheduled Cs that take place the last week of December for that reason. |
Anonymous
LOL, of course I understand the tax reasons, but "before Dec 31" doesn't really make sense. If your baby is due early in Jan and he comes before Dec 31st, then great, you can make the deduction! But otherwise I don't really get the reasoning. |
Anonymous
You are overthinking it, the PP is trying to say that any month of the year is fine as long as it does not happen on the last day of the year because you cannot take the tax decuction until a full 12+ months later. You have to look at it strictly on a year by year basis. |
Anonymous
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Well, I have 2 boys born mid Oct and early Nov. Being on maternity during the holidays always seemed like a huge plus to me. But both my boys were super healthy and we never worried much about colds/flu. What I like about those months is that they get an extra year of growing up before kindergarten. If my first had been born 2 weeks earlier, I would have to worry about the whole red-shirting thing. I like that they get some extra time.
I'm now pregnant with a girl and due in July. I love the fact that I didn't have to buy 2 seasons of maternity clothes and that I'll have some summer left for a maternity leave (and fall). Hopefully I won't have the same worries about her needing extra time to mature and I'll be okay with her being on the younger side for K. I think May/early June would be ideal... |
Anonymous
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I would NOT have another baby in October. Why?
(1) October is my busiest work month, since I'm in Finance and that's when 3Q reporting and annual budgeting take place. Very bad to be out of work for 6 weeks during that time. (2) You're pretty large in the hottest months of summer. (3) I missed an entire fall racing/running season because I was either too pregnant to run or too newly-postpartum to run. (4) It got cold soon after the birth and I couldn't spend much time outside during my leave, which made me feel isolated & cabin-fever-y. (5) my daughter will miss the cutoff for kindergarden by 3 weeks, which means paying for an extra year of private school or daycare. She'll also miss cutoffs for preschool and all sorts of lessons and classes, as I'm already discovering. (6) oh, and Thanksgiving and Christmas were kind of a fog that first year, and it was hard to motivate for Xmas shopping and travel. on the bright side, I had enough time to look decent by the time the next swimsuit season rolled around. And I had an excuse to wear flip-flops to work June-September. |
Anonymous
ha! I must say, that occurred to me as well. I'm due in early Nov. and I'm looking forward to hiding my pp body in sweaters, and having some time to get back into shape before summer. I'm thankful I will be on mat leave during the holidays. I'm glad not to be pregnant in winter, and having to worry about falling on ice (I am clumsy, esp. when pg) or getting a maternity coat. I'm glad I won't need to think about redshirting (other kid is a late august baby) silly, but I'm hoping the baby will come close to halloween, so that we can have halloween/fall themed bday parties. |
Anonymous
October... Libra's are the best 
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Anonymous
| April. Just in time for warm weather, spring, sitting out in the sun with your new baby. |
Anonymous
| I couldn't time either of mine but in hindsight wish I'd thought more about the things that recur every year (nice time of year for birthday parties, school cut-offs, not having b-days too close to holidays) and less about the one-time factors (heat while pregnant, weather during maternity leave, etc.) The latter were what I was more focused on at the time I was trying to plan -- although as noted, planning did not work anyway! |
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Had a september girl. She'll go to K on time (born days before the cutoff), saving us a year of daycare/pre-k... it was great to be off for the holidays... I was able to be in swimsuit-shape by the following summer (and got to hide my pp-body in sweaters as others have pointed out)... and I too wore flip flops to work all summer long.
Being pregnant in the summer isn't that bad!! We live in a world of A/C... and there's no time to feel the most comfortable in a bathing suit than when you're big and pregnant - you KNOW you're huge and you've got nothing to hide 
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