Fairly recently, I was talking with a coworker and we started to joke about the great number of October and November babies. We figured there must have been a pretty good number of cold people in January and February. But as much as we joked, I can't help but think about it some more.
In Autumn's room at school, most of the kids are born within two weeks of one another in November. I know a friend whose kids are born in September and October and one whose kids are born in November and December. In my immediate family, more than one third of the people are born from October through December. If I do the math, it's 40 percent. I asked another friend how many people she knew who had birthdays in October, November and December and she said, "Too many."
You can blame it on Valentine's Day in February. You can blame it on the lack of light forcing us to stay inside. You can even blame it on the bitterly cold weather during the first few months of the year. But you can't argue with the fact that something is making quite a few people cuddle a little closer during those first three months of the year.
Just don't say I didn't warn you come next fall.