Christmas babies and birthdays

clairec79

My birthday is 6th January and my sons is 20th December.

What we tend to do is put up Christmas Decorations and so on the day after his birthday (and take them down the day before mine)

Wrap presents seperately and different paper etc.

The only time I had a joint present was when I turned 17 and got driving lessons as my main present but still had small seperate presents

no-oneknowsme

With my Son , my due date was Christmas day . He didnt arrive though until 29th December.

I wouldnt dream of making his birthday any less special just because it coincided with Christmas time. I also wouldnt dream of allowing people to give him a "combined" Christmas and birthday present.

On the evening of 28th December the Xmas decorations came down and the house was prepped for his birthday celebrations just as it was for my Daughters birthdays in October and November.

Op just think how lovely it will be this christmas with your new baby here with you x

cyclingyorkie

*BigBird* wrote: »

My brother's birthday is 9th December, so not so close as some. My parents always made a point of never putting any Christmas cards up until 16th December so my brother had a week of only his birthday cards being up.

They always put the Christmas tree up on his birthday though, but he used to love that especially if it was a school day as we'd come home to the house all decorated. It was like his birthday signalled the start of the Christmas season, but his birthday was definitely celebrated separately before Christmas got into full swing.

I still put my tree up on the 9th now, as it's become a sort of tradition

We are exactly the same - my youngest will be 18 on December 9th this year! We have never had a problem - people always turned up to her parties and we too don't put Christmas cards up until the 16th!

My first was born at the end of October - and I always struggled to start thinking about Christmas until her birthday had been and gone. With a December baby you don't have the choice!

You have to be ORGANISED!

Good luck!

*Louise*

My mum is the 23rd and my nephew is the 27th of December.

God Forbid if anyone was to use christmas wrap or attempt a 'joint' present :eek:they would let us know about it (or my sister would, in my nephews' case)

Anyone who 'can't find' birthday wrap or cards at that time of the year is just unorganised - nothing stopping people buying them a little earlier and putting them away.

Blue_Monkey

Thanks all... There's some lovely suggestions on here of how to make it just as special.

This year, I'm looking forward to Christmas for a change - knowing that our baby will most likely to be here by then is very exciting! Usually we do so much running around, but I think thinks will change a little from now on. As someone said, it's the dates from about 24 Dec to 2 Jan that seem to be the "rubbishy" ones - if I pop on my due date, that'll be fine!

littlepinky84

My son is 29th Dec and we just take down the christmas stuff the night before ( i am sick of it by then lol) and put up his birthday stuff, no joint pressies, no xmas paper or cards. My son hates it, he says he has to wait a year for anything (he doesnt- we treat them all to something nice in summer)

Lirin

BM, my original due date was 02 Dec for twins, then 10 Dec for the remaining baby. I've wondered about that too- the chances of ending up with a Christmas baby....
It's a hard time of year, with Christmas presents etc, but absolutely no reason why our offspring shouldn't feel unloved. Yeah sure, maybe a few will be missing from birthday parties as they've family stuff- but that happened with my parties too and I'm May! And quite frequently in our house gifts arrive late- I've two years of gifts for a sister in Oz which I keep meaning to post. Another sis has still to give me a Christmas present- she's over in Oct, so I'll likely get 2 years in one go....
Don't worry about it, it will be fine!

brians_daughter

ds2 is a christmas day baby

Its got its ups and downs. BIG plus is we now dont go visiting anyone, its his birthday and we celebrate as we do anyone elses by staying home and letting him play wiith his toys - no worrying over whos mums to go to for xmas dinner either

We have (some) birthday presents in the early morning as soon as the children get up. then we have breakfast and then open christmas presents. Then its off to church and back hoem to prepare for a birthday party like we would any of the other children and we do invite people mums, dad, aunts unlces, friends etc. In attend all fairness close friends do make the effort to

we have a christmas dinner boxing day. People cant understand it, having xmas on boxing day - but to children xmas is when 'baby' jesus was born, and as much as i am a christian i wont put another event before the birthday of my children!

I find that people actually make an effort to wish ds2 happy birthday before they say merry xmas. I was VERY clear that if anyone bought 'combined gifts' ie bday and xmas for him we would return the favour - not because we are greedy or ungrateful but because its his special day and it should be treated as a celebration in itself

We are lucky enough to have a seperate living and dining room, so the xmas tree and decs goes in the dining room and birthday cards, banners balloons go in the living room!

DS1 was born the 27th Dec so its a busy 3 days for us!

ncsmummy

My sons birthday is on Boxing Day. On Xmas Day night we take down some xmas decs and put up birthday banners and balloons. He always has a birthday cake. We also spoke to the family when he was born about how we felt it was important for his birthday to be pecail and they have never given him a joint birthday/xmas present. If he wats a party then we do it in early december.

He does however hate that he gets loads of pressies all at once and nothing for a year!! lol

izzyfairy

My sister was born in Christmas Day so she also had a half birthday on 25th June. The family would always celebrate her birthday at Christmas (she had separate presents and her own cake though) but on her half birthday she would have a party and celebrate with friends. Or as my birthday is in July we would sometimes have a joint party. As the sibling of a Christmas baby it never bothered me that she had "two birthdays", we just understood that becuase her birthday was shared with Christmas she would also celebrate another day!