What Season Was the Best for Your Pregnancy?

[Polly]

Or pregnancies! I've only had one, so I've got nothing to compare it to; the problem with being really pregnant in the winter was the many layers of clothing in ratio to the distanced to the toliet! :giggle

[boosmama]

well ive been pregnant july through to april both times now, and i love it!!

if we have a third, i would try for the same time of year..but maybe a month earlier or before as 3 babies in one month might be too close lol.

But yea, i love april..the weather is nice when the baby is born, its not freezing and you dont have to worry about bundling the baby, but on the otherside its not terribly hot before they have some body mass and can start to regulate their own temperatue. As for myself, i cant stand being warm or hot..so the winter is perfect for me.

[Jo]

I don't mind being big in the winter. I am always so hot that it was kinda nice. I didn't even bother investing in a maternity coat. I just wore mine open or wore one of Dave's.

Having been in almost every stage in every season I can say that hands down, first trimester in the summer was the worst. It was so hot and I was so nauseous. Everything just smells so much worse in the summer. I was lucky with Rai though since I was in my third trimester during the summer with her. It was a pretty cool summer that year so I wasn't too hot.

[Mary]

I always thought it would be great to get pg in the summer and have the baby in February or March and that's what happened the last time. I was right; it was by far the best of the three. I hate being hot and being outside in the summer so having the first trimester during summer was good for me because I would have been staying home anyway. So I stayed home and felt like crap in my air-conditioned house. (Unfortunately I continued to feel like crap throughout but that's another story. ;) ) Then, as I started to get bigger, it was nice and cool outside, which was great for me because I'm always warm even when I'm NOT gestating. Then Eliza was born at the end of March and it was still decent weather and not too hot to take her out. (I hate taking newborn babies out in summer because you can't put sunscreen on them but then it's too hot to keep them covered up, too.)

The first time around I was pregnant February through October and it SUCKED because I started to get big just as it started to get hot and I suffered for months. I don't think I quit sweating from about June through September (and the summer of '00 just happened to be one of the hottest on record in Oklahoma).

The second time I was pg September through June and that was no good, either, because I was still sick at Christmas and then the last two months or so it was pretty hot.

[Erika]

With Sasha, I was pregnant November to August. It was hell at the end as we were going through a serious heatwave (bloody typical) and I was waddling around with a huge bump, feeling very sorry for myself and not able to get cool. (Of course the heatwave ended just as Sasha was getting out of the hospital :rolleyes).

During the early stages, I had the pregnancy side effect of feeling the cold severely and with it being winter anyway, I was frozen beyond belief. So my best time for my pregnancy was late spring, early summer. I had a little bump and it wasn't too uncomfortable. I felt fabulous as well.

[Kristi]

Well my last two pregnancies happened that I was nearing the end right in the middle of the summer. We lived in Sicily then and gets HOT there. Over 100 alot of times so I was miserable. Winter didn't bother me too much more than usual (I hate winter) but I was in italy and Florida so the winters were pretty mild. I would say Spring or Fall. Not that I have really been pregnant much in the fall since my Pregnancy with Dylan was end of Sept- May and Caleb was Dec- Sept and Isabella was Feb-Nov

[Lori]

I don't mind being big in the winter. I am always so hot that it was kinda nice. I didn't even bother investing in a maternity coat.

Yeah, that was the upside to being pregnant in winter. It was the only winter we've been in Michigan that I wasn't freezing. I remember that I'd be in class and get so hot that I'd start opening windows, in the middle of January! My poor students and classmates must have been freezing. I used to walk around outside with my coat unbuttoned, because I was so warm. The downside to being pregnant in winter was that it made walking around on icy sidewalks even more nerve-wracking.

I think spring was my favorite season to be pregnant, but that's because spring is just my favorite season, period. :)

[Beka]

Jude & Dyl were both march babies through bad winters and that royally sucked, I hated having to deal with walking to school and back in the thick ice at 6+ months pregnant, I didn't like the risk it meant i had to take. I hated the fact in england you can NOT buy maternity coats anywhere- every store that sells maternity assumes all pregnant women drive everywhere so the most they sell is a light jacket or thick cardigan! I was not big on being pg that time of year at all.

Chase was an October baby and that worked out great- I was biggest just as the weather was cooling down, I'd had her before the bad weather set in (we had a long summer that year) Clothing was simple as i would wear all loose fitted dresses & smock tops. I finished school a few weeks before she was born (Which was a big plus- if i'd have had her a couple of months earlier it would have meant alot of problems as British high schools in the 90s were not in tune to pregnant teens)

With Loki he was a Christmas baby- the downside was having older children, September through december is a madly busy time school-wise for us, I had Jude beginning school, I had Chase into her final year at first school so alot of functions at school that were "must do" ones (In fact my mother attended the nativity for me the day I gave birth :giggle) It was nervewracking as I had to go to these events as not to let the older 3 down but at the same time being my 4th I attended everything thinking "please not today.." - the whole no-coat thing sucked again too although not as bad as the 2 march ones as we had a milder winter.

If I chose again I'd go for another September/October baby. Being big in summer didn't really bother me at all- I'm fairly fit & it doesn't get overly hot here (madly hot for summer here is high nineties, average "hot" summer is 70s/80s with the odd day in the ninties) and having the kids off school for a big chunk of my pregnancy worked well appt wise with the hospital.

[Christine]

My pregnancies have run June-March, October-June, March-December and February-November.

My favorite of those was definitely the first but I much preferred having a child in June than any other time of the year! If I had to choose over again, I'd put up with being big in the summer in order to have a summer baby. Having a winter baby brought so many little illnesses with it. :(

[Tobye]

All three pregnancies were February through October. I tend to always be hot anyway, so the summers kind of sucked, but at least I didn't really need to invest in winter maternity stuff.

[freebiemom]

I enjoyed all of my pregnancies but I have to say the two where I was pregnant in the winter were the most comfortable. I was always so hot at the end so being in the winter helped so much with that issue. The two where I was pregnant through the summer were miserable as I live in the south and it gets really hot and humid here. But my DH loved those two the most because he is very hot natured and the house stayed ice cold like he likes it! :D

Honestly I was always happy to be pregnant and never tried to pick a certain time to be pregnant. If we decide to have another, I wouldn't try to have a winter baby over a summer baby just because of the heat issue. I would simply want another baby and would be thrilled, though completely miserable at the end, if they were due during the hot, hot weather. :)

[stormy]

I've only had one, but pregnancy-wise I think it was timed well. It was Feb-Nov so it was cool for the beginning and end and I wasn't too big in the hot weather.

Baby-wise the timing could have been better. Being stuck inside with long cold gray days and a newborn is not the most fun.

[Kristen]

I had three June-March(well, one June-February because Z was early), and I liked that pretty well. I felt like death warmed over in the summertime, but I prefer that to feeling like death warmed over in the wintertime, which is what I did the first time(January-Sept).

The other awful thing about Jan-Sept is that your last trimester is June, July, and August, which totally sucks. I retained so much water...my whole body was insanely swollen. It isn't a bad time of year to have a newborn, though...there were a few months before it got really cold and before it was cold/flu season.

[Jbird]

Delaney was born in January. Fall was the best. Sick in the summer, big and awkward in the winter. Fall was perfect.

[kcmomma]

I only have one pregnancy to compare, but I'm thankful that it fell the way it did. I get pregnant the end of June, didn't really figure out until almost August, so I was sick and got to rest in the ac when I was feeling pukey. Fall was great!! Madison was born in the end of March and other than needing a blanket/thick sweater for a week about 2 weeks after she was born, the weather was great...no snowsuit needed. In fact she didn't get to wear all of her coming home outfit because the auctual shirt was long sleeved. She had her hospital picture taken in teh decorative onsie and pants lol. SHe wasn't too small when it started to warm up. A light receiving blanket was all I kept in the car for AC situations...which was rarely used since she was such a HOT baby. I normally am cold, and that was the only winter I ever remember being NOT cold. We did have a 3 day 60 degree spell in the beginning of March that year and I thought I was DYING lol. I was worried about the ice/slipping on the snow thing, but we only had a few snow storms that year and with working in a school district, I only had to drive home twice in snow storms...and my co-workers sent me home early since I live the fartherest away and was pregnant :thumb

[Maggie]

Both of my pregnancies were perfect for me season wise. I got pregnant in the summer and delivered Emily in Feb and Eleanor in April. I don't like the hot summer, so being huge and pregnant in the summer would have been awful for me.

[Sam]

I fell pregnant with the boys on the same day in September so I fell pregnant with Jasmine in Feb.

I preferred having them just before the hotter weather got here. I had to carry Jasmine right through the summer and it was a nightmare.