Considering a Winter or Summer Baby
Do you want a summer baby or a winter baby? If you are trying to get pregnant by using an ovulation calendar, these thoughts may be entering your head way before you feel the early signs of pregnancy. There are loads of pros and cons for both seasons in terms of the baby's birth date and the pregnancy itself. Your planning may all go out the window if you get pregnant very quickly or it takes longer than you expected. It's still worth thinking about when you would like to get pregnant and the factors involved with both seasons.
Having a baby in summer time is great. Your child will always have their birthday when the weather is good and when people are in a good mood, which can make for great parties. Another huge plus for the summer time is that life is lighter, no hats scarves or gloves to worry about- for either of you. A big worry with newborns is illness and luckily in the summer there are fewer coughs and colds going round.
There are of course some cons to having a baby in the summer, not least the heat. It has also been in the news lately that children born later in the academic year struggle more at school, but there are actually lots of factors affecting success at school and many experts claim that this is not too much of a worry.
If you are heavily pregnant in the summer there are probably more cons than pros. You can't fly and can't even really travel too far from home, so summer holidays are out. Pregnancy week by week becomes harder work and by summer the extra heat can make you feel dizzy and tired and probably a lot more irritable.
In some ways however the later part of pregnancy can be easier in summer. Less snow on the ground to potentially slip up on is a big plus. The lightness of summer is a benefit in pregnancy with less extra weight in the form of winter clothes. Hopefully friends and family may have time booked off work due to the school holidays and can be on hand for help when needed in those last few difficult weeks.
If you are looking at an ovulation calendar and feeling good about a winter baby then that's great too. Wintertime is when we all feel like snuggling up and staying in. This can work perfectly with those early days with a newborn when leaving the house seems like climbing Mount Everest. When the baby is a few months old and the days start getting longer, it's the perfect time to start being a bit more adventurous and getting out and about.
A potential problem with having a baby in winter is the increased visitors in the house. When you have a baby its common for many friends and relatives to come and give their congratulations. In the summer time they can step outside to the garden when you need space or you can meet at the park, but in winter remember, all those visitors will be in your lounge.
You can never really know for sure when you are going to fall pregnant, ovulation calendar or not. But if you are planning a pregnancy, to some extent you can think about whether you'd prefer to have your baby born in summer or winter. There are various factors to consider for all the seasons, for both birth date and pregnancy as pregnancy week by week can be very different. However you will be deliriously happy from the early signs of pregnancy to when your new baby arrives whether it comes on Midsummer Day or Christmas Eve.
Learn more about early signs of pregnancy. Stop by Eric Oppenheimer's site where you can find out all about pregnancy week by week.
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