What are the chances of us having a Christmas Baby?

Obviously you have no idea what it means to have children. The first thing that goes out of the window is timing!

To answer your questions :-

Statistically, you have a 20% chance of getting pregnant if you have sex at the right time (your ovulation). Most women take upto 6 months to conceive.

Once you know your ovulation date or conception date, you can work out your due date. This is 40 weeks from your first day of your last menstrual cycle.

Then babies chose their time. Babies tend to be born anytime between 37 - 42 weeks. The birth date is selected by the baby!

First babies are frequently a couple of weeks late and rarely on time.

I believe statistically less than 10% of babies are born on their due date.

Travelling is not recommended in the first and last trimester.

Last but not least are you sure you want a Christmas baby. My son was due 5th January and was born on the 18th January. He now gets all his presents in one go (often shared - ie one for Christmas and Birthday). He also does not get to look forward to something mid-year.

Think about it.

The best piece of advice I can give you as a mother... is BE FLEXIBLE!

It's pretty impossible to tell what the chances are of your baby being born on a certain day. I even read that only 5% of babies are actually born on the due date. Healthy babies can be born anywhere from 38 weeks to 42 weeks. So that's why docs use 40 weeks to the day as an estimated due date. If you get pregnant in April, it would not be wise to travel during the holiday, as your baby would be due to come at any moment. Do you really want to be stuck in a car in the middle of nowhere or on an airplane when it happens?! lol Good luck!!

If you get pregnant in April then no you wont be going anywhere over the christmas holiday. Have you never read a baby magazine, talked to a pregnant woman? The last month of your pregnancy you can go into labor at anytime. Also it takes on average 6-9 months for a healthy couple to get pregnant. And they say that the miscarriage rate in first time pregnancy could be as high as 50%. So while it is possible to get pregnant your first month trying, its not very likely.

Also babies hardly EVER come on their due date so you are way more likely not to have a christmas baby if its your actual due date. Only 5% of babies come when they are due. I have also read that like the person who answered below me.

The only guaranteed way to have a Christmas baby is if you are scheduled for a C-section on that day. But anything can happen before that, ie. you can go into labor before your scheduled C-Section and once your body goes into labor, there's no way to stop it.

Try to stay close to your doctor and hospital the 2 weeks prior to your due date, just in case your baby's early. Besides, I thought you're not supposed to be traveling after wk 32 and especially after wk 37.

If you're planning to travel over Christmas, I'd either try to postpone the "getting pregnant" plans or start working on it now so by the time Christmas comes, you'd already have given birth.

One more thing, having a birthday on another "special" day is actually not that fun. When my mom was pregnant with me, they gave her a Jan 23 due date. I was born on Feb 14 - the only one happy about it is my husband. I could only imagine it being worse for a kid born on Christmas.

I was pregnant last April(08) but Miscarried and my due date was Dec. 24th... I am now pg again and well, obviously due in Aug. . . BOTH of my first two were born 1 WEEK BEFORE their due dates, so I guess everyone is different. I walked a lot tho. That's supposed to help naturally induce, and it worked for me. Good LUck!

I believe the average length of a first pregnancy is 41 weeks (a week after your estimated due date). A due date is always just a guess and we're certainly not going to be any better at your doc than predicting yours for you.

As for travel, I highly doubt you'll want to do anything within those last few weeks. Before I got pregnant, I used to hear other women complain about how crappy they felt in that final month and couldn't believe it was really that bad.

I had a pretty easy pregnancy, but right around 34-55 weeks, I started a downhill slide. It becomes impossible to sleep, you won't want to be on your feet long, you'll get bizarre pains, and you'll just generally be tired and irritable. Never mind that it wouldn't be the smartest move to be far from your doc & hospital in those final weeks. Are you keen on delivering in a strange hospital with a doctor you don't know?

First of all, your menstrual periods will have to be right on target for you to already know when the due date would be. Secondly, my doctor would not let me travel over Christmas if my due date was Dec. 28, 2009. I could not travel my whole last month. And only God knows for sure if you would have a Christmas baby. Statistics say there is only a 20% average chance of becoming pregnant each cycle. Good luck and let nature take it's course..

No you can't travel if you haven't delivered by christmas and get pregnant in april. Wow talk about planning to the exact day.

My 3 year old grew to become into born Dec twenty 9th... and that i've got been in basic terms having to postpone his occasion for a week later to get all and sundry to return... all and sundry is so burned out on events. yet i admire my infant, and that i discern that what befell grew to become into what grew to become into meant to be, so I haven't any qualms approximately it. it quite is in basic terms going to be that my newborn will in no way have his birthday be so all-approximately-me, considering all and sundry is so busy with holiday stuff (yule and New year) - yet whilst it is the main important difficulty I might desire to handle as a mom or he has to handle as a newborn we are the two extra useful off than ninety 9% of the folk in this worldwide.

Chances are high :) but if you are planning to get that date , then i would suggest not to do it !

First of all the hospitals might be understaffed on the day.. you won't be able to celebrate this Christmas.. nor will your close ones.

Christmas and birthday on the same day won't be much fun for the kid...

my birthday is on 30th Dec and it almost always gets clubbed with Christmas parties/ new year parties etc and never celebrated as my special day ( i'm too old now to complain.. but yeh i felt that when i ws younger ).

I have 2 kids, one has a birthday on a festival we celebrate in my religion, and the other son has a birthday on halloween day! My hubby's bday is 1st april and our anniv is our national independence day..

We are the height of special days! didn't try for it by the way it just happened.

Though people hardly ever forget our birthdays, they are not special as we always have to share with some other celebration!