Been there, done that.

[Stoneysilence]

DD is 5 months younger than a friend's dd. My dd is just over 18mo.

Increasingly (or perhaps I'm just noticing it more these days), whenever friends ask me how my dd is getting on, and I say, "oh she's great thanks, she's really enjoying her swimming/colouring/shouting at the moment" (or whatever), my friend will respond "oh that's standard, my dd did that at just the same age" or "oh bless, my dd did that exact same thing".

Perhaps I'm being pfb but It's really getting on my wick, can't my dd just be the subject of her own stories without this woman constantly having to comment on her in the context of her own dd?

Oh god am I that person? But then, she's asking. I just don't know.

'Cope' read respond/deal with. I am but losing sleep over this matter!

You could be really sneaky and make up slightly precocious activities and see if her DD 'has already done that.' Get slightly more and more outrageous in your lies and see when she realises.

I don't think you're being pfb as it goes op. It is annoying this one-upmanship business. On a par with "oooh that's nothing! wait til you've got 2/3/4!" etc etc

On the other side my ds is 2 months older than my close friend's dd and it is kind of annoying when you feel like you can't mention things for of it coming across boasting or whatever.

Hers is potty trained. Mine isn't. Mine started walking at 9 months. Hers didn't.

Meh.

I would do what Ellen said and just make up more and more outrageous things.

Oh yes, DD has started reading, we're really proud.

Swimming? Oh she's doing her 25m next week.

She can do adding and subtracting now but we're waiting until she's two to start her on her times tables.

That should shut her up.

Agreed. Can you get her a little monocle? No one would have the BALLS (sexist) to one-up a baby with a monocle.

Oh bless. I remember when my DC started sneaking out of the cot at night to post oddities under my MN username. What a bore, isn't it?!