What is/was your baby doing at 14 weeks old? Is mine quite advanced?

[BabyGenius]

I'll get hung drawn and quartered for saying this, but mine eats food- feeds himself with a spoon as long as I put the food on the spoon for him. His favourite food is banana, he loved it and cries when it's all gone and refuses his bottle for it sometimes. He feeds himself 'finger foods' (only very basic things at the moment).

He laughs.

He laughs at ceebeebies when the characters or presenters laugh.

When I say 'dada' he says 'ah-ah'. When I make gurgle noises he copies me. When I squeel he squeels and then laughs.

He sits up by himself.

He loves anything colourful.

He laughs his head off when anyone says 'boo'.

He sleeps 11 hours at night.

He holds his own bottle.

He wants to stand up allllllllll the time, he's very strong.

If you say 'kiss' he opens his moth for a kiss, and 'cuddle' he puts his hands either side of his neck. And if you say 'kiss baby' he opens his mouth to kiss his newborn cousin.

And loads of other stuff.

He just seems really advanced to me. Do all babies do these things by 14 and a half weeks old?

Is this your baby?

Why exactly is it so unattractive to be extremely excited about my first born doing new things and being clever. My friends baby is the same and he's great, and I'm very happy and encouraging of this so it's not like I've got a downer on with other babies.

I'm just happy he's doing great. I think it's quite bitter and horrible to condemn me for it.

Really? He's had it in every feed since he was tiny. Do you think I should put it in less and less feeds? I don't want him getting dementia when he's old. It's such a worry isn't it? One doctor says one thing, the other another, no one knows what to tell me to do. It was the worst case of reflux the paediatrician had ever seen.

ds2 was giggly, gurgly. Ds1 seemed to want to stand up from day 1! ds2 eyed up lamb chops so much you felt really guilty eating them in front of him! He was fascinated by everything colourful and moving. Ds1 looked at everything except people! ds2 copied sounds, ds1 didn't. both walked early.

Both great, both fabulous, both autistic.

So basically, nothing means anything when it comes to babies.

Enjoy your baby but don't make the mistake of thinking he's better than any other baby to anyone else but you. be proud of whatever child he becomes.

It's natural to be excited and proud of your babies, especially your PFB, but 14 week old babies can't be 'clever'. Plus the things you list -like sleeping for long stretches, for example- are nothing to do with intelligence.

Babygenius - dont take any notice - it is quite normal to think that your baby is
a) the most intelligent
b) the most gorgeous
c) the most advanced
out of all the babies on the planet. The secret is to keep this 'feeling' to yourself or be liable to be derided, as it is ever so slightly cringe-making ! Must go, just taking baby out for her Mandarin lesson !

This is so mean

I had a baby like this, did everything mega early, including eating (what would be blw today, she swiped food and ate it)

Physically she was advanced. Some babies are advance in language and speak early, others nearly always catch up

Enjoy him!

ooo sleeping for long stretches - that was DS2 - I honeestly thought something was terribly wrong one morning when he was 3 weeks old and I woke up at around 6am and realised he hadn't woken up during the night.......leapt out of bed and dashed to the end of the bed to check the moses basket - he was fast asleep catching flies.

Mind you he is turning out to be quite clever.......for now - he hasn't started school yet so I'll probably come crashing down to earth with a big bump very soon

lol lazy

Don't get me wrong BG, it's great when babies do new things. BUT how do you think it would make someone who's baby doesn't do things till really late would feel and thats worrying about it?

In my opinion, I think my dd is fantastic and quick to learn which I praise her on all the time BUT I would never rub peoples noses in it and post "look what MINE is doing at such a young age". You must admit, the approach you took can be taken that way, even if you didn't mean for it to come across like that.

Nothing bitter in what people are saying at all, just their opinions which when you post on a site like this, you should expect.

Lol FAQ. Think we're the lucky ones. Our nephew is nearly two and he never sleeps for more than an hour at night without waking and co sleeps even though his parents REALLY didn't want him to. He just wouldn't go down. We've looked after him over night before and he's very hard work. DS is such a breeze compared to him.

Wuzzle- I expect opinions, but I don't expect to be taken the piss out of in a rude manner. I'm ALWAYS bigging up other people's babies and saying how fantastic they are. It's great to see each and every baby do new things. I'm just proud and love him to bits. It's great to talk about achievments instead of negative stuff all the time.

Riven- God it sounds like your poor LO's been through a helluva lot. It's awful to see them suffer isn't it? I hope to God my next one doesn't have reflux.
When children's ward started going on about operations I got all teary. He was so tiny. Thing is though, if they have the op early, they can sew things so that they have problems when they're older as they have to anticipate how tight to sew it. That's what my doctor said anyway.

You didn't say 'I just want to gush about my lovely baby', though. You said 'My baby is so advanced. Do all babies do these things?', to which people are perfectly entitled to respond. And you started off by saying 'I know I am going to get hung, drawn and quartered'. An altogether odd post, sorry.

Babygenius - let me try to explain. Every single person who posts on Mumsnet (give or take those who are trying to conceive) has at least one child. And every single one of us believes ours is the most special child in the world - because of course they are, to us.

But we do not come to Mumsnet to spend all day praising ourselves and each other about how wonderful our children are. This is because we know - or soon learn - that every great achievement will eventually be matched by a public tantrum or something even more embarrassing or worrying in terms of development.

And while that's going on we spend our days on here discussing shoes, sex and other important subjects - including giving and receiving some really valuable advice and support. Just like you're getting now from Riven.

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MrsMattie, agree totally. BIG difference in approach that you just showed an example of.

I'm not making any apologies. I think it's quite sad everyone has perceived this thread in such a negative light. Nothing will change my opinion on that. I was hoping we could all chat about how clever our babies are and the things they're managing to do when only weeks ago they were a feotus. It's amazing.

Riven, thanks, the advice has been fantastic. Another trip to GP me thinks. Although I'm starting to think she's useless since she put him on Wysoy! So glad I took him off ranitidine since you said about it. Doesn't sound too safe to me. Maybe they didn't tell me the side effects so that I wouldn't panic.

Fine. Well, don't complain when you get flamed for being an arse then!

I'm not an arse either. Arn't there rules on here about personal attacks? 'arse'?

BG thats a low shot

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why is it a low shot? i think she was within her right to complain at someone calling her an arse?