Siblings with close birthdays

[Jamie86]

No problem at all. But I agree about the moms birthday thing. This past birthday my husband was trying to tell DS1 it was my birthday and he just looked at me and said "ok what's for breakfast." And IF I get gifts and IF they are wrapped the kids are the ones to open them. I was thinking if my due date happened to be on his birthday it more than likely means they won't have the same birthday given how few babies are born on their due dates. No matter what I know it will work out. I posted in a moment of panic but the more I think about it the less of an issue it really seems.

[hotdogz&boyz]

I actually enjoy having birthdays close. My boys are a month apart, which is kinda far on the "close spectrum" but its great for parties (we do joint so no one really gets "jipped"). My mom and I are a week apart AND it's the week of Christmas (I am the 18th, she is the 25th) and we have a BLAST having our days so close. We always make it special for the two of us and it does kinda feel like the holidays are "ours." We both really enjoy having our birthdays close to one another and my mom even said that she wanted me to come ON her birthday, since it was such a fun one to have.

I don't think close birthdays detract from the specialness of them. I think you can play it up to make them even more fun. (My brothers were also only about 3 weeks apart in birthdays and they enjoyed having big joint parties despite being 4 years apart).

(That said, I do have a cousin whose twin brothers were born on her 8th birthday and she kinda didn't like it for many years. Until she was an adult, since it felt like they took her day. But there were other aspects coming into play there. But I think having close birthdays is more fun than the exact same one. Although folks work with everything they are given!)

[blueeyedguys]

Ds4's original due date was 3 days after my birthday & ds3's was on dh's birthday. Neither of them came those days, ds3's is 6 days after dh's & ds4's is 20 days after mine.

I was kind of sad because I grew up in a family where my dad's birthday was April 27, my sister's was April 28, my mom's was May 3 (& her dad's was May 2nd). I was all alone in Janary (& adopted, turns out)

We have birthdays Jan 9, Jan 29, Feb 27, March 3, July 15 & Aug 19, so there's a bunch pretty near each other. It's a bit overwhelming, especially so soon after Christmas and it is influencing when we're hoping to conceive.

[covered in blue]

My first 2 have birthdays on consecutive days (24 months apart), and my brother and I have our birthdays 2 days apart. It really hasn't been a problem at all. We have done combined birthdays, and separate birthdays. Whatever works at the time. As long as everyone has their own cake and presents it's all good . I wouldn't worry about it. Get BDing lol.

[ratcliffe1811]

My older two boys have 2 weeks between their bdays they are also close in age (11 months) so I usually use the weekend inbetween as a party day, inviting school children isnt too bad as my middle munch only has 5 in his class so theres plenty of room for my eldest's friends

[SamS_TTCPink]

Rosie, were the same. DS2s birthday is a week before mine, DS5 is a few days before mine, my mums is 2 days after, then it's Mother's Day and then DS6's is a week after mine...so my birthday is forgotten about too. Even growing up, I want allowed to have a party or anything as it wouldn't be fair on mum or we'd have a joint family party but if I wanted balloons or something I was told no, because it was mums birthday too.

And now as a mum, there's been a few years where my birthday has been totally forgotten all together, but even if it's remembered I'll get a "oh yeah, happy birthday" if I'm lucky. No presents, no going out, no cake, nothing.

But I always make sure our kids have the best days every year despite being close and I think they actually like having close birthdays. It's just expensive for us! Lol!!