what sort of signs do babies give away, that show they are advanced for their age?

[sourgrape]

they compose twinkle twinkle little star

PMSL

They refuse fruit shoots on the grounds that high sugar content can lead to Type 2 diabetes in later life ;-(

They scream a lot (and your mother tells you they're G and T to make you feel better). Although, obviously, in the case of DS it was completely true. xx

Communicate in morse code with their farts?

None, really.

Although talking when they emerge from your uterus is often considered advanced.

Oh yes@givemehope - tantrumming brats (like my beloved DS) are always excused by loved ones on the grounds that they have a unusually high IQ and are easily bored. Bless grandmas :-)

Ahhhh. penny drops.

(and super advanced 3 week old sprints over and scoops it up saying "mother, mother our currency is the foundation of our economy, do not drop it so lightly")

Dd2 emerged from my womb and promptly crapped all over her dad. I was pretty impressed, I can tell you!

They say, "Ah, you must be Mummy Hunkermunker. Marvellous colostrum, excellent vintage. Have you come far?"

gets up to be sick in the toilet all by themselves

Hunker You have made me snort several times tonight! I would say you were on fire but wouldn't want to cause alarm

DS took up pipe-smoking at 18 months and he frequently fires off letters to broadsheet editors starting 'Dear Sir, oh how I chortled....'

Oh yes, he's my pension, that boy....

They snack on olives and demand that you take out an annual subscription to The Spectator.

Slur, I'm glad I'm amusing somebody else as well I think wine agrees with me

thank the lord for this thread.

Have just read on another site that a child the same age as mine apparently burst into tears on reading a book because it was so moving. She is 15 months old.

'Moving' my arse. Bet she had bad wind. or was just bored to fucking tears by Peter bloody Rabbit.

Yes yes Hunker! I am considering setting up a wine delivery to your house at key times during the week just for my own (and your) amusement

V funny Hunker, yes indeedy.

They tell you they know their rights.

lol v good.
but what sort of things would you consider advanced?

There is no real correlation between babies doing stuff early and being brilliant later.
I'm a salt so pretty up on infant development.

Yeah but you're not really serious are you now sourgrape.

Cos really that'd be a bit silly. This thread is much better.

so.

They deliver themselves and make the mw a bit of toast before she leaves.

'scuse me. Can you lot choose 1 thread to post on, getting V confused here

Make the midwife toast, Slur?

What about their poor lochia-exuding mother?

Ungrateful at such a young age Youth of today