In What Season Were You Conceived

[arwalden]

Do the math... work backward from your birth month to guesstimate about when you were conceived.

My theory: I'm guessing that colder weather leads to more snuggling and intimacy and... well... you know.

-- Allen

[MuseRider]

1. I was born

one day shy of 9 months after my fathers birthday. My youngest brother was born exactly 9 months after his birthday. We were concieved during the spring.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Dammit, Allen!

Now I have "You've Got a Friend" stuck in my head.

I FUCKING HATE JAMES TAYLOR.

:grr:

[arwalden]

It Was The Carol King Version...

that popped into my head. Think about that one instead.

-- Allen

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Hm.

No, I'm still pissed. :P

[Misunderestimator]

20. Oh that's much better... thanks

I was starting to dig at the ear worms...

[miss_kitty]

6. you aren't the only one!

shoot first, then string him up?:nuke:

[Misunderestimator]

19. Yeah.... I thought I was alone...

I like his guitar playing, but I really hate that whiny voice...

[On the Road]

3. June Weddings Also Have Consequences

at least in my case.

[calico1]

4. There was also a high birth rate

9 months after the 1965 blackout!

[politicat]

17. urban myth, sweetie... sorry.

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm

I know that when we had a 27 hour blackout here, I sure as hell didn't feel the least bit romantic. I was worried about the food in the refrigerator spoiling, the heat being off (electric blower.... :eyes: what good is a gas furnace if you can't use it when the power is off??), about looters or other freelance Enron Accountants taking advantage of the situation....

Ice storms are a bitch.

Pcat

[calico1]

23. Ok, I stand corrected but please don't call me "sweetie"

ok? That is condesending.

[politicat]

25. My apologies.

[XNASA]

7. I'm a Christmas Baby, baby.

I was born 9 months and one day after Christmas.

[Donkeyboy75]

8. Born in early October,

and it seems that a LOT of people have birthdays around that time. I propose the New Year's Eve theory for that one...

[Squeech]

9. I think your theory is wrong

I'm a March baby, and there are more March babies around than a statistically even distribution would predict. And that, of course, is because when June busts out all over, they went about as fur as they could go.

[arwalden]

14. I Could Be Wrong...

that's the purpose of the poll.

But are we to assume that the majority of June brides only have one child? Or that every child that follows is also conceived on the same schedule as the couple's anniversary? -- It's an interesting question.

-- Allen

[Squeech]

16. Anecdotal evidence

My little brother is also a March baby, three years and four days later. (The three year gap was the orthodoxy of the time, as propounded by Dr. Spock.)

My sister was three years and three months after that, however, so she was conceived in the early fall.

And my mom was a June bride, but that had to do with her graduating from college; I wasn't involved, even as a blastula.

[scarlet_owl]

10. Spring. April, I think.

[Lizz612]

11. I don't always like to think too hard about this....

But my sister was born 9 months and two days after my second birthday.:o

[RubyDuby in GA]

13. I feel your pain sister!

I feel your pain. And share your dislike of thinking about this........

[RubyDuby in GA]

12. Total gross out

My brother (born two weeks early) was due exactly 9 months to the day after my birthday.

I'm so grossed out by this I refuse to have any more birthdays. Presents will still be accepted, of course, but no celebrations.

[Atlas Mugged]

21. Oh, wow....

...I had to think about that one for a second - and it IS gross! Talk about loose! And then there's "residue"....

I'm amazed that a woman can ovulate that quickly after giving birth.

[RubyDuby in GA]

27. Oh sorry...

No, he's 2 weeks short of being exactly 5 years younger than me.
After reading my other post, I totally wasn't clear.

But it's still gross to even think about....

[johnnie]

15. I was born

Nine months to the day that Kennedy got assassinated.

[politicat]

18. I was due in mid-Feb but showed up in mid-Jan.

So probably conceived during Spring Break when mom and my father went to Lake Michigan with a bunch of friends.

Both sisters - 3 years apart and fabulous for engendering sibling rivalry - were winter conceptions; one was born in July on her due date, one due June 11 and showed up on July 5.

Mom could catch pregnant by hanging a dress next to dad's dress whites....

Pcat

[Atlas Mugged]

22. I'm a Winter brat....

...and my birthday was day before yesterday, making conception sometime in February.

A rather curious aside about my birth. My mother was a very beautiful woman and a successful model. She hated being pregnant because of the weight gain since her vanity was legendary. I was conceived less than two years after the birth of my brother. When my mother became pregnant with me, my father (with the aid of my grandparents on both sides) had to have her "put away for her own good" during my - ahem - gestation period. I never knew what that meant until well into my adulthood. Since my father divorced my mother shortly after my birth (unheard of in the 50's) and got custody of both my brother and me (outrageous in the 50's) I rarely heard anything about her and have never met her. So, I eventually started asking questions around the time I was 30, wondering why the big secret about my mother, whom I KNOW is still alive. Anyway, they had to have her put into a hospital because of her amphetamine addiction when pregnant with me. Bear in mind, they didn't have drug treatment clinics in those days, they only had mental asylums, so , yes, I was born in a mental institution. After I was born, my father took my brother and me, filed for divorce and my mother hauled ass, surfacing only occasionally with sob stories and such that I was never told about until I was in my 30s. My step-mother is my mother, and always will be.

So, when people get all misty eyed and start talking about the moral purity of the 50's, I have a very different take on the whole thing.

[Selwynn]

24. LOL I picked Fall because I CANT DO MATH :P

I would have actally been summer.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. It was my brother's first birthday. How stupid is that?

;)

[arwalden]

28. Kick For The Night Time Folks

[ogradda]

29. according to family folklore

summer. but if you count back 9 months, spring:evilgrin:

[newsguyatl]

30. well i bet you were conceived in august then, allen

[arwalden]

36. Wow...

I don't think my mom would have been to happy if that were the case. A pregnancy that lasted from August until July (not to mention three extra months of development time) would have been quite the test of human patience and stamina.

-- Allen

[Zero Division]

31. Summer, probably mid-to-late August

[Kenneth ken]

32. RUTTING season baby! n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

33. Baseball season!

Opening Day, as a matter of fact.

[mvd]

34. Summer

Happens to be my least favorite season, though.

[LDS Jock]

35. Spring... April.. born in January

Three of the nine kids were born that month. Wonder what it was about April for my parents?