Thinking I’ve birthed a mini Genius!

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(Okay you’ll all find this dull, I posted in parenting but got no replies ) so here I am shamelessly for traffic, light hearted thread! Also needed a goady title to catch your eye!

So put your guns, poison, knives and pitch forks away!

My dd 11 months and has been practising with an open cup through play from around 4 months. (She held her bottle at 3 months, I used to have to express for her dad to have her)

Anyway she’s been drinking from open baby cup successfully since 8 months, in the last two weeks she’s managed to drink and hold any shape cup or glass, drink it without spilling it. (Obviously supervised with glasses and that was more for fun)

It’s a small milestone but I’m just chuffed, it’s like a party trick. Wondering when yours drank from an open cup? If if they met any other milestones early and what they were?

I bet dd isn’t the only one. I remember googling like mad when she first started holding her bottle ☺️

What did your mini geniuses do and when?

another fun thread bringing the fun sponges out

This is going to sound so awful, but...

My DS was 2 days old

It wasn't me - it was a midwife at the maternity hospital, demonstrating how newborns can drink formula from cups. I remember I was appalled/fascinated/impressed all at once (he was my PFB and I had intended never to let formula pass his lips ).

She was holding the cup for him, though.

On a serious note ,I would be careful with any kind of glass TBH. My DD bit down on a tumbler when about 2 or 3 ,luckily just cracked( as thick glass .)Your DC sounds great and is doing really well , Just enjoy being a proud Mum!

My eldest stopped wearing nappies at 9 months during the day and 1 year at night, my DMum got him to make a sound like he was clearing his throat when he needed the potty

My 2 year old's best insult is "you're a big sock". She's a comedy genius, clearly.

It's quite common to cup feed newborn babies. We cup fed DD from day 2 with expressed milk. I presume OP meant baby holding the cup though?!

@bossybloss Oh wow, that's impressive! DD has been on the slow end of average with mobility milestones so far but she does love a good book So perhaps she'll end up a lazy bookworm like me

Is this a stealth boast?

!! Well done to your DD!!!

(not sure what is good about holding a cup with no lid though!! - you might soon find yourself covered in milk or water or whatever her tipple is!!! My boys r 5 and 8 and both still have drinks with lids on when they r in the lounge as they are forgetful/absent minded/clumsy when they r engrossed in video games!! and elbows often seem to come too easily in contact with cups which, while they look exciting flying through the air, only seem to result in carpet/sofa/jumper stains and mess!!!)

Erm....well done.
Seems normal to me, op. Not putting you down or anything but - really is quite normal

Nice though, if you were not expecting it at this stage.

Mine elder 2 about the same age, (youngest isn't even weaning yet). They never held their own bottle though, I think they liked having it fed to them. I wouldn't consider them geniuses for it, but of course like any parent proud when they can do something new and did seem to be on the younger side compared to some other children at mother & baby/toddler groups. I think it depends on whether the child is given opportunity to practice or not, more than if they're a genius.

Mine also experimented with open cups from a few months old, it's what babies do alongside many other things. Mine could drink from them from 9 months then the spilling games began so they where limited to the bath only untill they learnt not to delibrately spill around the age of 2. What you have described, as lovely as it is is not unusual.

My dd could do this before the age of 1. My ds was more like 2. But he is in Year 1 now, and his reception report said he was excelling in everything including pd so whatever! I think your dd has good motor skills but this is not a sign of genius!

The real skill is learning to put an open cup - or indeed any cup - into the dishwasher. My teens are still not quite consistently there.

Mind you, I managed to pour coffee down myself the other day from a cup with a lid, so I can't talk.

Enjoy the little achievements OP

Can’t remember with DS and particularly early milestones it was a long time ago but according to DM I was potty trained at 6 months but that probably just meant that I was forever being plonked on the pot. This was in the late 50s and according to DM most were out of nappies by one

Be proud of her whatever all the others say on this forum. Lots of people on here these days seem to delay that in putting others down.

My ds was walking at 10 months. We were really proud of his achievement as well before other kids around us. Soon became fed up of it though as although he was physically able to walk and run, he didn’t have any sense with it and frequently ran into doors, cupboards, walls etc so we were often ant gp surgery or a&e!

Shameless stealth boast here ….. I'm drinking my coffee from an open cup. And, GET THIS, I boiled the kettle and made it myself

I'm only 52.

Morning all! I actually laughed out loud at CurlyhairedAssassin. I wish downtown Abby existed as a show! 🤣 imagine it would be bit like a modern deadwood.
My phone auto corrects, it didn’t like downton Abbey”

We’ve got plastic sets of glasses left over from summer picnics she plays with. (Am taking on board what people have said about actual glass and won’t let her drink from them now)

I’m feeling bit better but still pretty vile. Not a new poster, been on here since the start of this year. Did post in the wrong place tho 🤣

My little one was pretty early with that kid d of thing. First time she grabbed my glass and drunk from it she was 4 months old, thankfully just water as I really wasn't expecting it and sitting up. Talking by 6 months.

But then no crawling/rolling/walking until much later than my friend's babies.

Tbh now at starting school age you don't know who was doing what when.

That's not a milestone.

@Greysparkles

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@CokeAndCrispsAndDip

My kids are 8 and 10, I still don't trust then with open cups

I feel your pain! 😂😂😂

Morning OP! How is Abby? Did she get a good sleep? And is she any good in the sack?

Tanith I can 'beat' you
DS was a couple of hours old, I was having my big tear stitched up in theatre and he was screaming. He had a few ml of formula in an open cup to calm down. It was hospital baby friendly policy to only give formula in open cups if the DMs wanted to breastfeed so they babies didnt get confused.

I can't remember IRL maybe between 18m-2. DSs nursery only use real crockery and glasses in the 2.5+ rooms which I really like, means you don't have to worry/bring spare stuff when you go out to eat or to houses with no young DC.

Obviously supervised with glasses and that was more for fun

Whose fun?