I was researching events that occur in December and stumbled upon this fun fact that except for February 29th which happens every Leap Year, December 25th is the least common Birthday. I suppose that is a good thing so that you don’t have to share your birthday celebration with Christmas every year. Conversely the most popular Birthday is September 9th, followed by September19th, September 12th…you get the idea.
Of course, one’s natural inclination is to go back nine months and see why September is such a baby boom! Well, that time is right after the holidays, the stress of the season is over, company, relatives have gone home, there is still a sense of good cheer and well-being. Some felt that after Superstorm Sandy in 2012 there would be a surge in births in the tri-state area of NY, NJ and CT. Hospitals geared up for the influx which really didn’t occur.
What did occur was a psychology professor had the opportunity to track and monitor a group of pregnant women during this Superstorm. As reported in, The Washington Post, the study, Stress in Pregnancy, “published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, found that children who were exposed to Sandy, a superstorm, while in utero had substantially increased risks for depression, anxiety and attention deficit and disruptive behavior disorders. The symptoms of these disorders presented when the children were preschool-age.”
While we can’t predict when a natural disaster will occur it is interesting to note that this can not only impact the mother but the unborn baby as well. When the day you were born is even more significant than I ever imagined.
What day were you born? What have you noticed or noticed in your children which can be traced to when you/they were born?
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