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My brother and I have the same birthday even though we're not twins (we're 4 years apart) so growing up we always shared a birthday. It didn't really bother me growing up even though the idea of sharing a cake bothered me more. Ha!

Now, I have 3 friends that have birthday just a (few) day after mine so we do one big celebration with everybody.

When we got older, my Dad and I would always share a cake when I saw my parents at some point in November. I'm ok with it. It's just nice to celebrate with family even if you combine them.

@Coco Bee: I don't think you're being selfish but think how luck you are that your family is so close you can do that! Maybe it's because my family is not close together (in radius) so we can't always celebrate together. I hope you enjoy it even though you have to share!!!

I never minded sharing birthdays, I thought it was normal since I always had a joint celebration with my sibling.

My 2 sisters-in-law are jan 6 and 31, my brother-in-law is jan 22 and my daughter is jan 22! In the past my MiL has done a birthday every weekend for them, but I'm kind of hoping it all gets combined this coming year so that we don't have to spend the Christmas holidays with family, then new years and then every weekend in january with family. I love them, just not every weekend! I'd also like my LO to have her own day.

As a kid, I totally would have been mad to have to share my birthday. I'm the 27th of this month (yay september birthdays!), and my mom is oct 2, so we're really close, but we've never doubled the celebration up. But I think as an adult, you might have to let it go...

I'm an identical twin, so yah I'm used to sharing.

Nobody really celebrates my birthday these days, so you are lucky!

we've always had to do this - on my mom's side, my mom and her sister and brother are all about a week apart so they 3 are in one fell swoop. my nana and I are 4 days apart, so we're together and usually on easter.

on my dad's side...oh man. my dad is 12/28 and my brother is 12/6. my dad and his sister share a birthday, and his other 2 sisters share a birthday together. of the grandchildren, one is 12/4, one is 12/5, and two are 12/6. then there are another 3 or so in january. they all get lumped together at Christmas.

there's also a lot of february and march - they get lumped in with me (april) around easter as well.

I was so excited that LO in the belly is due september because there's only a couple in september on my dad's side, but my [psycho] grandmother is 10/1...I hope to god she comes before then!!

essentially..everyone in my family, particularly my dad's side, shares a birthday with someone else. lol.

We usually did family birthdays (extended) once per month because it was always someones birthday. I shared May with my Aunt. Then on my actual birthday just my immediate family would do something.
Now my DH and I are only 5 days apart so we totally share.. I like it!

I've never had to share my birthday, and I like it that way! In my family, birthdays happen to be all spaced out through the year, so each birthday got a separate celebration. If I had to start sharing now, I wouldn't like it much either!

We always share birthdays in our family We all get together, have dinner, and have one big cake... nobody seems to mind and it's nice to have that time to come together

@Coco Bee: Thank you

@Coco Bee: Nope, there's just one bun in the oven at this point. Maybe during the next pregnancy.

I haven't ever had to share my birthday, but my DH family does everyones at once (they are all born within an 8 week period) if they celebrate at all. They aren't as big on birthdays as my family.

@Arden: Haha! My birthday is in January and I've often encourged Christmas-birthday combo gifts. I'd rather get one awesome present than 2 piddly ones.

I've never placed much importance to my birthday, but my sister certainly does. She doesn't like to share it. As for your situation, maybe your mom finds it too much to do three separate birthdays or perhaps your brother or your dad is really busy right now and it's just easier to combine them?

In DH's family there are a lot of birthdays all around the same time of year (mixed in with things like Fathers Day and Thanksgiving) so we almost insist that birthdays get grouped. Otherwise it just gets overwhelming with too much. Dinners every weekend over and over. Weekends are precious time for use since DH works all week long (same with the rest of the family, weekends are important to us all).