Total Recall....

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Please don't think I'm fishing for compliments - genuinely want to know if this is normal because it surprised me...

DS is 22 months now - we finished BFing at 19 months. When we were BFing i'd always felt that one of my norks was milkier than the other - i.e. held more milk but it wasn't something I'd ever discussed with anyone let alone DS. About a week ago he suddenly pointed to the right boob and said 'big one'! And it was the one that I'd always thought had more milk in it. It doesn't look bigger if that makes sense (I'm not wildly lopsided - or even a little bit lopsided to the untrained eye!!) Do you think he can have remembered from his BFing days and only now has the words to express it?

Then last night at bedtime I got a Gymbo clown off the shelf that we hadn't played with for at least 6 months - and we stopped going to the Gymborie classes when I went back to work last september. He instantly said 'bubbles' - which was definitely a highlight for DS of the Gymborie classes we used to go to. Can he really have remembered / associated that with the clown from so long ago? i.e. from when he was just 12 or 13 months.

I thought that kids didn't lay down proper memories until they were 2 or 3 - my first memory is of my mum being pregnant with my sister when I was about 3 and a half!!!

my ds remembers things too (2.0) and other friends dcs same age do but im not sure whether its a short term memory thing like they wont remember all of these when they grow up? i was actually wondering about this topic too. if they have more language skills its much easier to know how much they can remember but mine doesn't talk in full sentences yet its just few words together so just notice from things like he knows the directions to go the park and some other places so obviously remembers it? then if you go somewhere he saw a cat last time starts asking "where cat gone" and that kind of thing, but other dcs of my friends who talk in proper sentences (similar age but better language) they rememeber other childrens names even after not seeing them for a while and tell the mum "i want to play with so&so" remembering them from before?
but i dont remember anything from before 2 myself and i dont think many people do thats why im thinking maybe they remember it for now but forget it later? would be nice to know at what stage they would start having permanant memories of things you do with them but it probably varies on the child i suppose..

Yes definately memory whether it sticks into really long term not sure.

DD 2.7 yesterday broke a cheap plastic bracelet that she got from her gps in spain in February and was quite upset saying she wanted to go to Spain to get another one. It started a whole discussion about ski-ing and swimming and the big bubbly bath (childs jacuzzi in the hotel) which we did while we were there.

She also remembers things from our holiday in France last year when she was 18 months and numerous other things.

It's quite shocking/amazing when they recall some insignificant thing from ages ago isn't it?

Yes it is amazing. DD remembers arriving in Thailand seven years ago, she is 9.2 now and I would describe her memory as phenomenal for lots of things, other things like tidying and dishwasher emptying are less reliable.

I think it's normal, I remember being amazed when dd remembered exactly who had given her what present from her birthday a year before. She is 3 and a half now and remembers random items from from up to two years ago.
But I think the thing is that the memories don't last. My earliest memory is from about 3 years old, nothing before.

Truely amazing. somehow i didn't think he'dremember things before he could articulate them if that makes sense. Lovely to hear all your remembering stories too.