Do you find you can't recall...

[emkana]

...what your children were like when they were smaller?
I was just looking at old photos and I just can't remember what the dd's were like at a younger age! I'm quite shocked by that!

Yes!

I'm finding it impossible to remember DS2 as a newborn...and that was only a few months ago. His favourite thing is standing on my lap holding onto my hands atm - there's NO WAY he was a newborn less than six months ago!

How is DS, btw?

I know what you mean emkana....

I look at pics of DS now and think... did he really look like that? I thought he'd always looked like he does now.

Having said that, I was so shocked at how big he looked when DD was born, because in my eyes, he still looked like a newborn.

Also, I try and remember when DS did all the things that DD is doing now, and I simply can't. I can't remember any milestones or anything!

He's fine, thanks for asking, struggling with a cold that he picked up from his sister, but hopefully he'll get over that soon.

Not at all, no. I can remember what other people's babies were like if I didn't see them often, I have snapshots of them in my head, but not mine because they were there and changing daily.

(Have you got a camcorder? Videos much better than photos for helping remember )

I so agree - I'm trying to remember what dd1 did at the same age as dd2 is now and apart from the few minutes of video at Xmas and birthday I cannot remember. And even looking at baby pics of dd2, I can't imagine what she was like when she was not walking and talking.

I remember very clearly how he felt. But not how he looked - sometimes when I see old photos I haven't had out for a while, I barely recognise him. He's so alive in the present that it's hard to keep an image of the 'old' ds in my head at the same time, IYSWIM?

Bloody glad someone invented photography and camcorders or I wouldn't have a clue!

i have a thing called google desktop down the side of my screen (dp did it, dont ask me how) and it scans my photo files and randomly shows me pics in a slideshow sort of way. am v often 'hooked' by a pic i havnt seen for ages and click on it and then i can flick through that whole folder. its really lovely! never get anything done, mind, but oh well!

i can't remember anything. i think its post traumatic stress