Let me hear your most ridiculous baby boasts

[SmidgenofaPigeon]

It’s going to get worse isn’t it

I’ve been on here long enough to know that babies can bring out the worst competitiveness in parents, I wasn’t expecting it to start quite so early.

Last week I had my 12 week scan, first baby. I was very nervous due to a previous loss. The sonographer thankfully let me hear the heartbeat straight away, but when she found the baby, it was very still. She got me to move around a bit to wake it up, which it eventually did, so she could get some pictures and measurements etc.

For some reason, I’d not considered they slept in there. I was jokingly telling my friend who had a baby last year, that ours was asleep when she started the scan. ‘Oh’ says my friend. ‘Ours was very active, she was jumping around all over the place, she even waved. But she’s always been very curious about everything. You’re probably going to have quite a lazy baby, I’d think.’

So there we go, at three months and still in my womb, someone has already compared my baby to their’s

Let me hear some other examples and have a laugh.

@JustAddCoffee91

My friend has a little girl and she text me saying that's she was walking before she could even walk... actual words btw I went round expecting to see a miracle (pre COVID) because she was only 8 months old... she was in a baby Walker just staring into space dribbling everywhere 😂😂 I couldn't help but laugh but she is very cute so I did have to congratulate her on her very talented amazing child 😉 My child was a very late Walker and she always brings this up in comparison

"Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk She says I began to sing long before I could talk" Thank you ABBA.

My mate once had a blue arsed fit because my 6th child could fit 4 dummies in her gob at once
Hers could manage 2 (9 months between them)
Honest to god she stomped out of my house in a tantrum
Mine just had a bigger gob than hers!

My daughter used to face time me in utero,they didn't need to do any scans as they could just face time her and see how she was,she used to fill her time browsing the internet and scrolling through Facebook while waiting to be born....
She's always been very advanced....

4 year old can work out electrical circuits! As a reasonably intelligent adult with A levels in 3 sciences still find electricity 🤔

I think you’re in for a wonderful contented baby OP!

Just save the first -hopefully ENORMOUS bogey she/he picks! I still have my sons in a baby tooth box... take it along to the NCT /Bragging Forum groups and whip it out when they’re competing about inane stuff. Be truly proud! It shut up the East Sheen/Richmond lot for a while over a decade ago now.

I’m keeping it so I can have the option to Bragg if I want to that I still have it at his 21st or wedding or something.

Another line I used to trot out was “so killing as I don’t have to put him on The Tube with a diaper bag when he goes off for his first day at work, I’ll be a happy Mama’. Competitive potty and dry-through-the-night chat; just don’t engage and get lost in your own thoughts x

@HeadLikeAFuckinOrange

Oh this reminds me of my darling late GM. A while after she and DGP married they were delighted to welcome a 'honeymoon baby' . The reason she gave for her baby being a few months early yet still managing to be 8lb9oz was 'he was more advanced with his growing so was ready earlier than other babies'

So funny. My Dad was born 7 months after my GPs wedding. My lovely GM insisted he was a honey moon baby, just born 2 months premature - except my Dad weighed 9lbs when he was born. There's no such thing as a 7 month baby born weighing 9lbs

My boss reckons that her two (now adult) sons both toilet trained themselves as toddlers. She said they just saw the toilet and knew what to do.

I was a trimester ahead of a friend in my pregnancy and baby was kicking lots I put a sheet of paper on my tummy and we were laughing coz you could see baby kicking at it! She suddenly said my baby kicked the other day and said her partner felt it (he wasn't in the room) bearing in mind she was 12 weeks do they even have fully formed legs at stage? I know some people feel flutters early with their first but a kick at 12 weeks?