Christmas 2022: Was I going to have a ‘Christmas baby’?
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Christmas 2022: Was I going to have a ‘Christmas baby’?

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You are going to have a Christmas baby!” was the singular refrain I heard when we announced to family and friends that we were expecting our firstborn in the last weeks of December 2006. Through the second trimester, once the baby bump was clear for all to see, the prediction of a Christmas baby seemed to be on everyone’s lips. Ruth D'Souza Prabhu with her daughter, who was one of just 5% of babies worldwide born on the date they are given But now that I was back home, the chatter of a Christmas baby got louder. As for me, I did not have a Christmas baby, won myself a sizable bet, and our daughter’s birth was the best Christmas present ever.

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