False.
This is my third pregnancy that will end in February. My mom said I am a sheep and I can't really argue with that because the only baby I had in a different month (which was the end of July, so yes, I am aware of how a summer pregnancy was. Slushies and AC and I was happy) was an invitro baby. He was just about as planned as you can get. But this time of year and this stage of pregnancy makes me consider all of the reasons why I would rather be pregnant in the summer.
Advantages to summer pregnancies:
1- flip flops. You don't have to bend over your uncomfortably huge belly to put socks and shoes on.
2- Ice. You don't have to worry about slipping and falling on the ice. If you are pregnant in the winter, you constantly try to maintain a center of balance for your massive self and try not to topple over with one wrong step.
3- Ice again. Here in the great state of Utah there are sometimes storms that will leave snow so fast that the snow plows can't get to them. Then the weather is so freezing that it takes weeks for the roads to melt and clear out on their own. This only really happens in the neighborhoods, but when you are in the car and your body aches at every bump, it is very uncomfortable.
4- Cold. They always talk about the heat of the summer and pregnancy being terrible. I agree. You are definitely more hot when you are pregnant and if there were no such thing as air conditioning, it would not be very fun. But guess what, there is. You can't get around the cold in the winter. You also have to have a big beefy coat. As if you don't feel big and beefy enough. And furthermore you are having Braxton-Hicks contractions anyway and your whole belly feels like it is as tight as it can get and then you step out into the cold and your whole body tenses up from the cold! I shudder at the shivering thought.
Someday I will learn. Or maybe not. I may just be a sheep and be destined for February births.
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Speaking from expereince, both winter and summer are bad times to be pregnant, but Summer is way worse. When I was pregnant with Tait, who was born in the middle of July, I would come home, close all blinds and sit in my underwear on the couch with a fan on me all night. I couldn't cool off! I think my feet swelled three shoe sizes because of the heat.
Winter pregnancies are bad for all the reasons you listed, but my summer pregnancy... hated it.
You're on the home stretch. So exciting! Do you have a name picked out?
it could be worse. you could be on "i didn't know i was pregnant."
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