To fine it so difficult to remember my children when they were little?!

[jinglebelly]

I have 3 DC's aged five, two and 2 months. I find it so difficult to remember much about when my eldest two were babies or when my eldest was a toddler, I need to look at photos to jog my memory wheras DH remembers everything! I wonder if it's babybrain or just that I have been constantly with them so see little change, anyone else get this or am I going mad?!

I have a dreadful memory for things like this too. I tend to remember people as they are instead of as they were.

I can't remember what my family looked like when I was growing up. I remember clothes, perhaps, but not faces or hair.

I don't know how unusual this is!

Oh I'm the same with family while I was growing up, remeber events but not much about people!

I had dreadful depression when my older 2 were little. I am convinced this is why I can't remember much.
Poor DD asked me what her 1st work was. I honestly don't know. I told her it was dada.
There are so many 1st's I can't remember.
I am trying to enjoy my 3rds babyhood & take in as much as I can!
Still haven't filled out one of those calendar thing of 1st though

yup first 8 months or so of DD2 (when DD1 was just 2) is a big blank. don't think it was particularly dreadful, just busy.

I remember the stupid things, lke how awful the toilets were on our Cornish holiday, but cant remember how old the children were while we were there , or even if they were born

Mine are teens.

I take the piss by telling them about things they did or said. Then I threaten to tell their mates.

I have quite a good memory of their tiny years, but as years go by things get muddled and forgotten in the rush of our lives.

The early memories are extremely precious - that's why we took so many photos and I kept notebooks of things.

Now they are used as blackmail. Hehehe.

I'm the same. I put it down to constant tiredness and pnd induced by a crap birth, breastfeeding hell and a clingy, impossible to please baby, as well as the general shock transitioning from my old City gal life to this. I think I've blocked a lot of the baby months out. I have very little memory of my DD, now aged 3, as a baby, and even pictures of her seem weird and unreal, like she's not my baby. Actually, there are very few pictures of the her and me, I hated having my picture taken in the state I was in.

Am now weaning my DS and have no recollection at all of going through this process with DD. However, I have a much clearer head this time round,no depression etc; but still, I can't remember much about DS and how he was just a few short months ago. I think partly this is because I see him every day all day, so don't notice the changes, so much. But also, quite frankly, babies are pretty dull, imo, especially the second time round. I've a much clearer memory of DD's toddler months and her development during them, because she was just so much more interesting.

I'm exactly the same and end up having to make things up, and agree with DH when he mentions them. I've actualy been thinking about it alot lately and am really sad that those memories are gone, even looking at photos sometimes doesn't jog my memories. My children are older though 18, 14 and 4.

I have a brilliant memory for things like that and dc love all the stories. Gomez sits in wonder at all I can remember. He was doing a photo album for his mum for a big birthday and I could tell him all the events, ages of the children, etc of the photos he was putting in when he didn't have a clue.

i had bad pnd when dd was little and find it difficult to remember quite a lot of things as a result. i took loads of phtographs but didn't always remember to write the dates on them so can't even remember her age when i took the picture. so i do my best and thank god for digital cameras that can have the date on them!!!!

I cannot really remember much about when mine were babies either. They are 7 and 10, and even their toddler days are a bit vague.

It is always interesting to hold someone else's baby and not be in a fog of tiredness, and of course to give the baby back when the nappy explodes or they cry.

Yeah, ds's early years are a big blur now! (he's 9)