I have a summer birthday which was very hit or miss for birthday parties growing up—many years very few kids could come to my parties because they were out of town but some years my parties were great fun being in the pool. Anyway, don’t make this decision based on birthday party potential haha. I think in terms of education and also extracurricular activities especially sports it is best to be born in late fall/winter/early spring (basically November-March) because those kids will usually be the oldest in their classes and will have more sports playing years before college but it depends on the kid of course. My own kids have November and February birthdays (not on purpose/we just tried to conceive when we were ready and it made sense; we didn’t base it on aiming for a particular birth month) and the downsides are that it was cold and flu season when they were born/newborns and that there are limited bday party options. Otherwise I truly don’t think it matters that much.

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Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, kids with summer birthdays get to have cool b-day parties at pools, parks, or just in their backyard. We have a small house and always get stuck paying big bucks for an indoor venue for our January and November babies.

Ha- yes, this is true. Parties are much easier for my summer baby than my early spring baby!

I have 2 August babies. Absolutely no one wants to be outside in August at a birthday party. Plus it rains hard in the summer in DC. The first thing parents say when they come to birthday parties is to thank me for not having it outside. We have it in our basement and when we finished our basement we planned it around having birthday parties there. I was a summer birthday too and no one was ever around for my party because they were out of town over the summer.

My son was supposed to be born in July but was born in May. You're fooling yourself if you think you have control over birth month or season.

This only makes sense if you've tried to get pregnant before and were successful on the first shot, which is pretty rare. I know a couple people who can pretty much pick a month and have a baby then - but for the vast, vast majority of people, that's not how it works. And after two months of negative tests, you'll be kicking yourself for skipping a month for something this inconsequential.