# On which day of the week were you born?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 13, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-day-of-the-week-were-you-born/609396 "2012-01-13T15:46:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-day-of-the-week-were-you-born/609396/101 "2012-01-21T14:42:43Z")

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Wednesday. I always hated the “Full of woe” thing. Then I found, in an old book, a version where Wednesday was NOT the downer day and I clung to that version! I’ll see if I can find it next time I go downstairs.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-day-of-the-week-were-you-born/609396/102 "2012-01-21T17:10:42Z")

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My eldest child was born on a Wednesday by cæsarean, but it hadn’t been planned that way, it was a coincidence. My second was born on a Tuesday and my third on a Wednesday, and they were both scheduled cæsarian. So has Wednesday been designated Elective Delivery Day by the obstetric profession or something?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-day-of-the-week-were-you-born/609396/103 "2012-01-21T17:31:52Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> My eldest child was born on a Wednesday by cæsarean, but it hadn’t been planned that way, it was a coincidence. My second was born on a Tuesday and my third on a Wednesday, and they were both scheduled cæsarian. So has Wednesday been designated Elective Delivery Day by the obstetric profession or something?

I thought I’d see how others in my own family fared on being born:

Mother, father and younger bother: all on Monday  
Mother of my three children: Wednesday  
Oldest two children (cesarean): Thursday  
Youngest child (cesarean): Tuesday  
Current (second) wife: Wednesday

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**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-which-day-of-the-week-were-you-born/609396/104 "2012-01-21T18:18:53Z")

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Sunday. Didn’t need to look it up or anything–I was born on Easter Sunday, which inspired my middle name (viz. my normal nom-de-internet).

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