To believe that I have memories from as early as age 2 or 3?

[Pyjamaramadrama]

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I believe that I've got memories from age 2-3. But my dad is adamant that I can't have and I'm imagining things.

I can remember my cot. Also having a stairgate on bedroom door and standing crying against it and my mum coming to get me. I can remember my pushchair and rain cover, the potty I had, I remember mum changing my nappy (and I was out of them by 2.5), And i can remember the game she'd play while doing it. I remember mum leaving me in the hallway in the buggy and being afraid if the dark. I remember being put in babygros with the feet cut off as they must have been too small. I can also remember my dad chucking my baby bottle out.

Lots of other things too. I remember quite clearly and in more detail, and I can describe the colours of these things and where in the house these things were etc.

My dad says it's not possible, but he can't explain how I can tell him the colour of the straps on my buggy and various other things, when I've never seen photos or been told these things.

Does anyone else have such early memories? Or believe it's impossible to have?

Yes bouncingbelle, I think that they do. I clearly remember mum changing my nappy and pretending to sniff my feet and saying 'pooooey stink feet', and me giggling like mad, doubt that I could even speak properly then.

I remember waking at night and worrying there were wolves prowling round my cot, and my dad came in to comfort me - it was in our old house so I would have been 2.5 at most. Then from 3 onwards I have loads of memories. Your dad is talking nonsense!

Yes, I remember loads from when I was under two. Very very clear memories. For years my family teased me about it but I was able to describe toys and sketch the layout of a building that I couldn't possibly have known otherwise. I find it interesting that DD doesn't seem to remember anything before she was 3 1/2.

I remember being 'mown down' by my older brothers and sisters ( they were tearing around our and the neighbour's garden. I remember laying in my cot in my parent's bedroom with a huge cut above my lip. I would have been around 20 months old.

I still have the physical scar ( as well as the memory)

I have definite, clear memories from the summer before I turned 3, so I don't think it's unlikely!

Yes i remember an evil childminder putting a horrible baby harness on me whilst letting her children run ahead. - I actually checked this with my mom as to my knowledge i had never been to a childminder, and had always gone with her to work (her job involved driving - which i also remember). Mom said she sent me once because she had two children one a couple of months older and one 8-9months younger and mom thought id have more fun there than stuck in a car with her. Apparently i hated the woman that much i never went back. I was just about 2yrs

Oh, so NBU. I remember stuff from 2 years old. I remember wetting the bed before my brother as born when I was 19 months. I don't know why this particular bedwetting incident sticks out but it does (would have been unusual for me at that age and fits with my memory of 'being rebellious')

And even if someone doesn't believe that, how can they think 8 years old is about the time people usually started remembering?

I have memories from when I was 2-3 of my old house, we moved when I was coming up to 4, I have memories, of my old bedroom I shared with my sister, the kitchen, the xmas tree we had one year, and various other things, I even remember the furniture of the people who had brought the house.

I remember things about the first house i lived in which we left when I was 2.5

I remember an early caravan holiday where I banged my head on a table according to my parents I was 2 then.

I can remember odd snippets of things from being about 3. I find it difficult to know if some early memories are actual memories or memories of seeing a photo iyswim.

The ones I am certain about are memories from nursery where I wouldn't have seen a photo - being told off for biting and once having to go home in nursery spare knickers.

We moved house when I was two and I clearly remember the tea chests on the back door step. I have loads of early memories from 2. Mainly places such as holiday homes rather than events though

I have vivid memories of the house we lived in when I was about 2 years old. I could even draw a plan of the downstairs of the house and we only lived there for about two years.

I have a memory from before that involving my great-grandmother before my sister was born when I was 15 months old. I described it to my mother once and she was astounded that I remembered it, and confirmed that it was true, even if a bit vague on details.

Oh that was my dp maidofstars, but then he claims he can't remember what day it is. When I ask him if he did this or that at school, he claims he can't remember anything.

No it's my dad who says it's not possible, now I know he's definitely talking rubbish. Mind you he's another one who denies things that happened last week (whole other thread).

YANBU. My first memory is of being in my pram, so I was just a baby. I'm can see the fringe of the pram hood and a girl with dark hair and a fringe looking in at me. There's a big tree behind her. It's a sunny day. I know that I'm at my grandparent's house. Years later, I described this to my mum. It turned out my second cousin - dark hair with a thick fringe - used to wheel me around the garden at my grandparent's house, where there was a big walnut tree in the garden.

My next memory is of when I was around two or three, so there was a long gap after that. And my memory isn't very good these days, so it's been all downhill since then...

I have memories from that age OP, you're definitely not alone!

My very first memory is of being in the big coach built pram with the big hood up. It's a very short memory but there was thunder and lightning (i realise now the memory is flashing and loud bangs)and I wasn't with my mum and I was scared. Told mum about it a few years ago (thought it must have been a dream as surelytoo early to be a memory) and she knew the day I meant as s he had let her younger cousins take.me.for a.walk. they were gone hours and she was panicky (I was pfb) turns out they'd gone to meet boys and used taking me for a walk aged 16 months as a cover.

Ds uses to describe being in his Moses basket, I can't be sure of course, but he'd describe the sides and looking up at the 'white roof', and the purple walls (which they were when we first moved in). This was when he was about 3.5 I'd say. But he definitely can't remember now.

NUR at all OP. I have a memory of a woman in a grey skirt lifting me into a cold dish on the coffee table of our old house. I remember her legs and feet and then being lifted and the cold on my legs. and also her case/bag leaning against our sofa. I've told my mum this when I was younger and she says it must have been the health visitor weighing me and the last time the health visitor came to the house was when my sister was born when I was 17 months old.

I have lots of memories before my brother came along when I was 4yo.
They tend to be moments of sheer joy or terror.
I also remember rooms in our first house, and being on the yaght - so definitely before I was 3years old. I was hideously ill on the boat. Could've died. I'll spare you the gross details! It was salmonella.
I also remember living abroad. Smells, faces, unusual motion (being held on a bike, for example).

It's definitely possible, I just couldn't give you a timeline from when they start!

I might be on my own here as my mum and dad were pretty old fashioned and skint.

But does anyone remember having a bath in the kitchen sink? They also used to bath my in a big bucket. I probably didn't have a baby bath and that's why.

I remember being out with my Dad aged 18m, and wearing a little baby dress that I have upstairs, it is tiny, I must have been under two. I also have a good visual memory, although I don't recall all the detail that you do (the buggy straps etc). I do remember the little ducks on the dress. My Mother had put a white slip under it and I wanted the pink one so I was having a bit of a tantrum. Quite amusing as I am still obsessed with clothing.

My late father could remember lying in his cot with teething pain

My earliest memories are aged 3 - one of my little brother falling down the stairs & another of nearly getting run over in a local park

I remember falling down the stairs when i was 2 and breaking my collar bone. At the hospital, they gave me a shot in a wheelchair, which i loved!

I bathed dd1 in the kitchen sink! I was bathed in it as a baby I am sure. I even bathed in it myself when I was 30, big sink, very thin me, and living on a boat with only a tin bath.