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I wouldn't worry about it. DD#2 is due a week before DD#1's birthday, a few days from MIL's, BIL's, SIL's, and my cousin's birthdays. The more the merrier.

I wouldn't worry about it, our baby just so happens to be due on my nieces birthday and smack in the middle of bday maham for our family too, and 2 weeks before Christmas!!!!!

Whatever you decide to do is what's right for your family. I can completely understand wanting to avoid a whole mess of birthdays but I'd probably be too anxious TTC to actually wait. Good luck!

We've discussed doing the same thing - skipping TTC in December to avoid a September birthday. I think it's easy for us to talk about now, but I doubt I'd actually be able to do it!

Almost everyone in my family has a birthday in November and December. I thought about avoiding it but it was taking us so long wasn't willing to give up a month.

I think it's really whatever sounds good to you.

My eldest daughter and I share a birthday! Last year we turned 1 and 30 together, and we will turn 21 and 50 in the same day. I love it and am happy to give the main focus of the day to her on years that aren't "big ones". My husband, however, does NOT share my sentiments when it comes to his birthday - he'd prefer to keep his birthday month to himself, and that's fine, too!

I think a bigger "clump" could be frustrating though. My two sisters, brother in law, two nieces, father, father in law, mother in law, grandfather in law, grandmother in law, daughter, and myself all have birthdays in June July and August (plus a bunch iof anniversaries in there as well). It leads to a super busy and expensive summer, so if we go for baby #3 I might try to plan for a fall/winter kiddo.....if the baby fever isn't too intense and I can stand to wait

I don't think it's a silly reason if it's important to you not to have a lot of close birthdays.

I will say that as someone who was born the day after my moms birthday, with a cousin who shares my moms birthday, sister birthday a week later, I LOVE my familys birthday season. We all have a lot of fun calling each other and wishing happy birthdays, and I felt really special as a kid having a birthday close to everyone. So it can definitely go both ways

I wouldn't worry about that, it's a blessing regardless of what time a year LO would be born!

I had my first baby two months before my 37th birthday. If I have a second, I will probably be 39 by the time s/he is born. So, I personally would not bother trying to time things too carefully because I can't "afford" to skip a month.

If I was ten years younger then sure why not exercise a preference?

I felt the same way when I was pregnant with DD. She was due end of May and everyone in DH's fam is born in June..like EVERYONE. Plus my bf and most of my cousins, so I'm surrounded by Gemini's! Don't feel bad about taking a month off if you want, but honestly now that she's here it's not a big deal at all. Now that we're trying for #2 , we were hoping they wouldn't have the same bday month but if all works out this month, their bdays would be days apart! May will just be a really awesome month in our house filled with crazy gemini's

Our first LO is due a couple of days before my sisters birthday and Halloween (DH'S FAVORITE holoday) and around a bunch of other people-we-know's birthday. I just wanted a baby! Every one can share

I think its fine to think about it, though we did not. All 3 of us have birthdays within 11 days of each other.

I totally understand the sentiment - we have 3 nephews, me, my mom, and all three of my siblings in Jan/Feb so it is a pretty crazy time, but now that I am older, I love it because we have one big celebration for all of the adults and it is a ton of fun. We chose not to skip any time because it took so long, but we postponed starting TTC to avoid a late winter baby.

DH and LO both have July birthdays, and so do a lot of our family, so I totally get wanting to space the birthdays out. I hope to begin TTC #2 where there is a higher likelihood of hitting a month other than July, but at the same time I won't be able to bring myself to skip a month just for this reason since we did have some issues the first time around. I don't think it's silly at all if it's important to you though!

My family has a ton of July birthday and I was kind of excited my LO was born in July, since it's such a fun month in our family.

But I'm also not territorial about these things. I posted pics on here last month, but we had a joint B-day party for all the July Bdays (and it was LOs first Bday) and I thought it was great.

While the chances are low that it would happen, I think it's a valid reason if it feels right to you. Our twins birthday is March 11 and my husband's is March 16. When we started talking about another baby, I absolutely wanted to avoid March. Having three birthday in a week is a lot of planning (and money, even though we don't do huge gifts), so I knew it would be less stressful for our next baby's birthday to not fall in that month.

@MrsBananaGrabber: Whatever you chose will be best for you and your family!