To ask if my 1 year old would remember a hospital stay at 4 months?

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DD is just turned 1 and I took her yo be weighed today. As soon as she saw the scales she clung to me like a little monkey and screamed she was literally shaking.
I don't know what made her so nervous or upset.
Thinking back we took her to see my grandad in a nursing home a few weeks ago and when she saw his hospital bed she did the same thing.
The only thing I can think of is that she's remembering when she was admitted to hospital a 4 months with bronchiolitis and was on oxygen and had an NG tube and cannula it was quite traumatic but I didn't think she would remember that. Aibu to think she's thinking of this when getting so upset?

Well, one of my earliest memories (with context) is of finding my old dummy and remembering using it. So as a young child, I clearly remembered much about my babyhood which I have now forgotten. I certainly wouldn't recognise it now if I saw it!

My eldest DS was in ICU and special care when he was born, he has always had an irrational fear of hospitals and needles. When he was 2 his brother was born and he came to the hospital and wouldn't look or talk to me whilst I was sat in the hospital room. Last time he was in the hospital he was 10 or 11 and was exactly the same, he can't breathe properly. Not sure if he remembers but I have heard many similar stories so I think there must be something in it.

Yes it’s possible. She may not remember the whole experience clearly, but she will be able to recall Snapshots.
It may even be that in her day to day she doesn’t remember at all but when in a familiar environment, it comes flooding back to her. It’s called state dependency theory I believe.