Thinking I’ve birthed a mini Genius!

[Breastfeedingworries]

(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?

The most successful and self-confident adults I know are the ones whose parents were proud of them.

Your daughter is a lucky little girl. Stay proud and never stop believing in her innate wonderfulness.

Most people are giving you a bit of a hard time but she’s doing really well. I remember mine having a photo uploaded on the nursery system just before 2 saying how nicely she was drinking from an open cup. That was the age I trusted her to do it if we were out and about. Like others, I wouldn’t give an 11m old a glass though. Even at 3 manages to frequently knock over her cup.

Mine all spoke before they should have been able to according to the HV,I can remember her frightening the life out of me when I told her my oldest was talking and he was tiny,she said no they can't talk at this age and then she walked into the room and he shouted out at me Drink with a thick Irish accent(he sounded like he should be in Father Ted his Dad is Irish)she looked like she was going to pass out and went he should'nt be doing that,I'd just turned 21 and he was my first baby the dozey mare I thought I'd done something wrong.

He was sitting up at 5 months old,crawling at 6 months and could walk properly(not needing to hold onto anything to walk)at 9 months old.

He's still very intelligent now(the school did an IQ test when he was at school),he can learn a language within a few lessons,he can play any instrument he's tried(and play it well and there's been alot)within a couple of hours of handling it.

He's also an amazing artist and that's not just coming from me he's had people employ him for a commission.

Before anyone slates me for my spellings and punctuation I have brain damage and it's had a real knock on effect with the written and spoken language.

He started asking questions about the milky way when he was 2 years old(and no not the chocolate bar )even though we hadn't watched anything to do with it.

He's a bit like the Young Sheldon Character when it comes to his intellect but thankfully he's alot easier to get along with than that character.

All 5 of our DC have talked before they should have been able to and talk properly not just baby talk and they'd do infront of they're HV,my parents,friends ect.

4 of our DC have all walked and properly(not toddling around)our youngest is disabled and she couldn't walk till she was nearly 3 bless her but she could sing a whole song by the time she was 2 word perfect,she had to have some tests done recently and she has an episodic memory,she can remember things very vividly from before she was 2 years old.

I've been trying to think but it was so long ago I honestly can;t remember.

But I've just realised that maybe my DS (now 35yrs) never has learned - he drinks water out of a bottle and hot drinks out of one of those bamboo cups with a lid

But well done your little girl - she sounds sweet - and having a Mum who is proud of your achievements, be they big or small, is a blessing in life.

I find the milestones I celebrate the most are the ones that are more hard won. When there's something they've struggled with for ages and suddenly they can do it, that's what makes my heart sing.

My 11 month old has been advising Boris Johnson on Brexit.

Mine didn’t do bottles - so somewhere between 6-12 months.

We did baby led weaning - basically stuff they could hold because pfb was bit of a control freak - she had very early opinions about clothes which I've been told by others couldn't have happen - I have video of her rejecting my offering crawling to clothes and rummaging till she found her favourite dress.

In fact most of mine did talking, crawling and walking early end of normal – and then started school and were slowest to pick up reading, writing and maths concepts. Took till about half way through primary to catch up and find their natural place as it were - so if they do struggle in future don't give up on them.

I wouldn’t do glasses – family member gave drink in one supervising, but it smashed and glass was all over baby – they weren't hurt but it was a shock.

I remember thinking DT2 might be some kind of genius after he was doing things he shouldn’t have been able to do at his age - crazy hard shape sorters, posting and mimicking really early etc.

Then he had a massive skills regression and was diagnosed with ASD and brain damage and a visual impairment. Today he managed to use a spoon for the first time - he’s 3. Still uses bottles or sippy cups. Doesn’t play with toys.

There’s nothing wrong with being proud - just try not to let your expectations run away with you and definitely don’t cross over into smug. Life has a way to bringing you back down to earth. I still watch those videos of him doing crazy stuff as a baby / toddler and wonder how it’s possible for things to change so much.

I don’t want to rain on your parade OP, but cup feeding is a recognised method of feeding newborns:

breastfeeding.support/cup-feeding-newborn/

DS was cup-fed from day 1, and he was premature (supervised by the neonatal team, he had low blood sugars and needed supplemental feeding, but had a severe tongue tie and weak suck so wasn’t managing a bottle).

But it is lovely when they start interacting more and doing things for themselves, sounds like you are have an adorable little girl.

Didn't trust DS with an open cup til he was 6, when he poured himself a beaker of milk to the brim and didn't spill it!

Aw, it's nice to celebrate all the milestones, whether they matter or not. Beware that it'll still become fun to throw it on the floor soon.

In competition with PPs, my DS has found farting hilarious since he was only 5 months old. There's a double laugh if there's a smell. Particularly embarrassing in a restaurant when it was the man at the next table and there's 14 month old DS pointing and laughing. I tried to pretend he was just being friendly, the man wasn't fooled.

My 3yo thinks it's hilarious to fart.

Genius

Didn't trust DS with an open cup til he was 6, when he poured himself a beaker of milk to the brim and didn't spill it!

I still don't trust my 15 year old with one tbf

Ds favourite word at 18 months was geophysicist, he was addicted to watching Time Team. He is extremely bright but in no way a genius.

I don't trust myself with an open cup or eating food without a bib made out of kitchen roll.
I remember when my dcs were little thinking they were the most amazing people ever. I still generally think they are still super intelligent and good looking enough to be models. But as they point out to me, I have 'Mummy goggles ', they work like beer goggles.

Not sure why MNHQ deleted my post - maybe the truth hurts? MN do allow some awful, nasty posts to stay up under the guise of 'free speech' and it is getting worse. People being deliberately hurtful instead of just scrolling past, no wonder MN has got such a bad name in some areas - allowing people to be as offensive as they want could be construed as condoning it.

OP, like I said in my last post, enjoy these little moments because they grow up so quickly and time flies - but be careful of the glass. And ignore those whose lives are so unfulfilled they get their kicks putting down a stranger on the internet

Ha! I can beat that - my son was 8 weeks old when we laid him down on the floor with a play gym thing above him. And he started batting the dangly bits. Not randomly, decisively. We have film of him doing it. He's now mid 20s and hasn't progressed much beyond that - so genius now she might be, come back to us in 25 years