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What’s your first memory??

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Goodnightjude1 · 07/08/2019 22:43

I was just discussing this with my OH who said his first memory was from when he was around 2yo and his cousins had come over and they were trying to get him in trouble by telling him to hit them, then they’d go in and tell their parents.

I sat for a while thinking but I can’t remember anything from before I was about 5yo.... I remember nagging my mum to play a game with me and she said no, because she’d just sat down to read the paper. I don’t know why I remember that but nothing before then...or nothing more important.

What are your first memories?

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Proseccoagain · 08/08/2019 12:34

When I was two I decided to take myself off to visit a lady who lived over the road. It was a lovely sunny summer Sunday lunchtime. I remember my DF running across the road looking for me, and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. My poor parents must have been frantic!

P1nkHeartLovesCake · 08/08/2019 12:38

I can’t remember anything until about 7 when I was on holiday with my grandma and grandad in the caravan by the seaside they had.

DH however says he can remember being in his pushchair under a rain cover poking his hand out the side when he was about 2. He can even remember the hat he was wearing

It amazes me how people can have such a range in first memories

romany4 · 08/08/2019 12:38

My mum was pregnant with my sister and I was cuddling her bump.
I was 3

TheInebriati · 08/08/2019 12:38

I was 18 months old, in my cot and bored. So I decided to climb out and heard someone coming upstairs, I couldn't get back in and panicked. I can remember how the wood felt under my armpits and feet, what the room looked like win the dark with the door open and the landing light on.
I can also remember struggling to get out of the pushchair so I could walk around the park, and kicking my shoes off because I didn't like how they felt on my feet.
I found the park on Google recently and its still as I remembered it.

vampirethriller · 08/08/2019 12:38

Sitting on my grandparents living room rug looking up at my dad, who had long 80s hair and a white leather tie, and crying because I didn't want to go with him. I was 18 months old according to my mother.

drspouse · 08/08/2019 12:41

I was 2 1/2, watching the moon landing (it wasn't the moon landing part that impressed me, it was the fact we got to watch TV as we didn't have one). I remember going in my pushchair up the steep hill at the end of our road to someone's house, and turning the corner into that street, and then watching it.
I told my mum about remembering it when I was about 10 and it was as I had described - so I'm fairly sure it's not me being told about it when I was younger.

FurrySlipperBoots · 08/08/2019 12:51

Poking my fingers through the air holes on the rain cover of my pushchair, while waiting outside school to get my big brother and sister. I must have been quite teeny because the pushchair broke before I was 18 months and my dad refused to get another one.

MadisonAvenue · 08/08/2019 12:52

I remember my Mom going shopping and it must've been a Saturday morning as she left me with my Dad. I was in pain, I think I had earache as I seem to recall holding my hand against my ear and I remember crying constantly and him walking around the house while holding me but I couldn't tell him what was wrong. I'm not sure how old I was but I couldn't have been very old at all. There'd probably be a way of finding out as they called the doctor and he came out to me (this was the early 70s).

FurrySlipperBoots · 08/08/2019 12:52

I remember when it broke too, come to that! We were walking back from town and the wheel came right off and rolled away down the hill! I had to walk home and was not at all impressed. I suppose I got used to walking everywhere most of the time after that though!!

vasya · 08/08/2019 12:53

Sitting under the dining table nibbling on a cube of cheese and pretending to be a mouse. I think I was about 2.

HippyChickMama · 08/08/2019 12:54

I remember waiting with dgm for dm and df to come home from the hospital with new baby db. I'd have just turned 2 and I remember dgm was washing the cup she'd used for her tea and saying "they'll be back soon" and I could only see her feet and legs like in Tom and Jerry cartoons.

CoodleMoodle · 08/08/2019 12:59

I was 2.5 and we went to visit the house that we'd then move into. There was a little shelf built into an alcove and the previous owners had some decorative shells on it, and I was fascinated with them.

I asked DM and she was amazed I could remember it so clearly. I don't remember anything else from that age, though. Most of my early memories are from school age onwards.

Milicentbystander72 · 08/08/2019 13:00

I have 3 really early memories, just flashes really.

First, my Auntie visiting and bring her new baby. I'm only about 20 months older than my cousin so I must have been really young. It's literally just a flash/snapshot and not much else.

Sharing jellytots out say sharing a doorstep with the boy next door. We would have both been about 2.

My mum showing me how put glitter on Christmas cards using pva glue. I must have been about 3? I thought it was magic.

popsadaisy · 08/08/2019 13:11

I remember waking up at my Dads house in my cot from a nap (I was anywhere over 18 months old not sure of exact age) and there being a spaniel dog in my room staring at me. I hated dogs at the time was scared to death of them and I remember thinking to myself 'this must just be a dream' (how the hell I knew what a dream was at that age I don't know) and rolling back over and then next thing I remember was my Dad coming into the room and shooing the dog out. I grew up not knowing if it was a false memory or not so when I was in my teens I asked my Dad if he recalled it and he said he did. It was the dog from next door and he was mortified at the time I would wake up because he knew how scared I was of them! Strange what we remember!

StinkinDrink · 08/08/2019 13:20

I remember going into the fridge with my twin brother, must have been our 3rd birthday and we found our cake and got our hands on it! Another first one I remember is tipping a box of cereal out on the corner of the kitchen bench trying to find the toy that came with it. I had to tip one of those 'pack and stack' boxes out and turn it upside down to reach. My poor mother coming downstairs to that destruction!

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 08/08/2019 13:21

Lying down for nap time at nursery around 3years old

Soola · 08/08/2019 13:22

A couple of fleeting memories of being in a prom sitting upright and of being in my playpen and holding on to the wooden rails and crying!

The clearest memory is aged 2 and brushing my first pony a black Shetland pony!

Elzbells · 08/08/2019 13:50

My first I was sitting in a high chair and a little boy flicked a cloth (must have been a muslin type comforter) into my face catching my eye.

I remember screaming and a lady coming but that's it.

My mum said it must have been the lady across the road who looked after me between 12-18 months while she worked, she had a 3 year old son.

I have loads of memories of early childhood, and lots of smells bring back memories too.

Motherofacat · 08/08/2019 13:54

I was about 3 and at the airport trailing behind my parents struggling to carry a huge teddy and keep up with them lol

ElsaMars · 08/08/2019 13:59

This is absolutely true. I lived in a flat up until I was 1. I remember lying in some sort of carry cot/Moses basket and looking at a lava lamp. I also remember what the furniture in the room looked like. I reckon I was about 6 months, the lava lamp must have blown my mind! I've never seen any pics of the place as there aren't any.

FrenchFancie · 08/08/2019 14:17

Mine weirdly early - I’m lying in a warm bath, happy, and looking at the tiles and paint which were purple and yellow (yay for the 1970s).

I asked mum about this recently and she told me they ripped that bathroom out when I was about 1 or shortly afterwards. So it’s super early. It’s about a big memory, more the feeling of warmth and happiness and knowing I liked the colours

H2OH20Everywhere · 08/08/2019 14:41

I remember being in my cot in my parents' room and calling for my mummy. I remember the view looking through the bars of the cot and seeing them in bed. Would have been about 18 months as I'd gone back into their room as I had whooping cough.

Yesterday I remembered feeling the pregnant belly of my mum's cousin when I would have been about three. Hadn't thought of it for years.

Oddsocks2 · 08/08/2019 14:52

I have a couple of memories around the time of my little sister being born when I was 2.

But I had an experience a couple of years ago. I had just woken up and I was tightly curled up, with my fists crossed under my chin. The thought flashed through my mind - ‘This reminds me of being in the womb’. It was a fleeting sensation but I believe I must have been curled up in that position shortly before birth.

EskewedBeef · 08/08/2019 14:54

About 2yo for me too, a tiny memory of a birthday party. I can remember more involved and longer memories from about 4yo.

Cookit · 08/08/2019 15:01

I feel like my children will probably say something like this OP
I remember nagging my mum to play a game with me and she said no, because she’d just sat down to read the paper

Even though 95% of the time I do get down and play.

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