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Does anyone have any funny stories about when they, or their children, were conceived.

Tell us about it, to cheer us up on these dark winter nights (Sorry Australia, I know that's discriminating)

One giggly girly afternoon, one friend said her daughter was conceived in a tent. The tent, however, was pitched in their bedroom in their flat. "To try it out". Well, it obviously worked!

Most people (female) claim that they know instinctively when their children were conceived. Can anyone else confirm this?

PS - I bet everyone knows at least one person with a birthday around 26 September. Another friend of mine says her daughter was most definitely conceived on New Year's Eve.

A "normal" pregnancy lasts 38 weeks. The method of counting "weeks pregnant" however counts from the last period which is usually about two weeks before conception, so the figure of 40 weeks for a pregancy is well known. On the basis of this, the English tabloids announced a date 40 weeks before the "millennium" as the date to have sex if you wanted a millennium baby. They were of course two weeks wrong in their calculations.

23-Sept is 38 weeks after New Year's Day, so a New Year Conception should be born at that time.

All of my children were way off the calculated date. But I still know that the eldest was conceived on Good Friday.

While I'm happy to be here, I'm not sure I'm ready to know where and when I was conceived--aka my mom and dad having sex. I do know, however, I was born three weeks late, with long hair and long fingernails. So that places my creation somewhere in early May of 1970. Mmmmmm, a warm spring night, flowers in bloom....

*Shakes head violently to clear the burgeoning picture*

I asked my Mum. And she told me. And I thought "way too much detail there, when will it ever come in useful" and now it is useful. In a way. It happened in Singapore. In the single women's Air Force accommodation. During the lunch break.

In a departure from the norm, my Nr. 1 daughter was born on New Years' Eve - how's that for going against convention. She was conceived on a dirty weekend in Amsterdam. On my friend's living room floor. Oops. Cat's out of the bag now.

Nr. 2 daughter was conceived (coincidence here) in our tent, middle of the afternoon, whilst it was pitched in our garden, drying out.

Each time I knew I was pregnant right away (ok, within 2 days). And each time I'm very very sure about when it happened. No questions - ok?

Sho
(sort of appropriate, don't you think?)

Not sure as to the conception (probably at my parents farm)
But where I was born is a bit different!
I was born in the side-car of my fathers motor-cycle(an Indian Ace), in the car park of the hospital of the town of Yallourn, Victoria, Australia, on the 23rd December 1955.
It is interesting to note that the town, car-park and hospital no longer exist (everything was dug up years ago as part of a huge coal mine).
The motor-cycle however still exists (last time I saw it was on Hamilton Island in Queensland)
Maybe thats why I'm a bit of a wanderer
Rocket

I was born on September, 18th, 1975. That date would take me near New Year's Eve, if it wasn't for the fact that I was a little impatiant: I was born six weeks early. Does that ring a bell, then? I reckon it must have been Febuary, 14th. Valentine's Day! Cute, don't you think? Only that my parents didn't know about Valentine's Day because in East Germany, which is where they and I come from, nobody knew of or celebrated Valentine's Day. It is a silly coincidence that Febuary, 14th, is the day my parents got married on. They had wanted to get married on a Friday, 13th, which is considered to be a day of ill fortune in Germany. The officials who were to conduct the wedding flatly refused and my parents had to return the next day...

Valentine's Day, absolutely. Ever noticed how many people were born end of October, first two weeks of November?

Back seat of a Rover & born in a dentist...

Dunno!I wasn't there and it's not the sort of thing my mother would ever have discussed with me.

perhaps your farther would know ?

I know where I was born and I can guess at where I might have been conceived.

so what ya guessing ?

The same place for both

down at the carwash ???

No quite boring, in their bedroom.

Well, are you going to tell us then?

(Sorry, got deviated between writing and posting)

I did tell.
I notice that you haven't mentioned about yourself though TC

yeah...?