How does my child remember that young?

[TheFSMisreal]

My mother had a stroke when my son was 16 months. We don't talk about before with my mother ever and my son was completely non verbal back then. He's 4 now and just mentioned something about what my mother used to be able to do with him back before then very clearly. The only explanation for that is he must remember it, but how?

I don't know how but one of my friend's kids can remember stuff from when they were a baby.

What was it? My neice thinks she’s remembering something, believes it, but actually it could be something that anyone would do.

.I can remember being weighed as a baby. The room, the smell and the cold feeling of the big metal scales.

Why would he need to be verbal to remember?
He needs verbal ability to relay his thoughts and memories but not to create them.
My tortoise cant talk he remembers who we are, where he lives and where his lamp is after hibernation though!

I remember being pushed back from the table into the corner in my highchair for throwing food. I remember the rage! And can see clearly exactly the spot in the kitchen I was moved to. I must have been under 2.

I found mine was able to remember a lot up till around 4 and a bit then it is almost as the whole memory got erased. The one example that left me quite stunned was when ds pointed at our old flat bedroom window (we moved out when he was 18 months) and said ‘this is the room where we used to cuddle and l bit you to sleep (breastfed). And in the other bigger room l had all the baby soft toys.

My siblings' birth when I was 20 month kickstarted my memories - I have lots from when my mum was pregnant, visiting her in hospital, their early days at home etc. They are definitely real memories and very vivid.

My ds who is almost 4 can remember absolutely everything it's so freaky, when I ask him how he remembers these things so well he said his brain takes a photo of things then he can go back and look at them? Haha little weirdo. He actually remembers a lot in very good detail, the earliest he's recalled from I would say is around 12 months.

Why would he need to be verbal to remember? because most people have no memories of being preverbal.

I have two strange hazy but distinct memories of being very young - one of being held by my grandmother and her outfit and hair (although the memory isn't like a normal image, almost like the colour has been removed but I remember very specific details - very odd) and being in a buggy looking at my reflection in the mirrored strip of a chiller cabinet in a supermarket.

Other than that I have almost no memories of being younger than 6 or 7, and most of my memories from that age are actually implanted (from photos or stories I've been told). I experienced some trauma in my childhood and have very few memories of my entire childhood as a result.

My DD remembered a song my DM used to sing to her at around that age and an action she used to do while singing it.

My DM passed away and my DD has no other way of knowing this song and specific action unless from her own memory, she is 13 now and out the the blue picked up our little dog and sang to him while doing the action 'just like granny used to with me' she said....I was so shocked and quite emotional that a special memory with my darling DM has remained intact.

Ds1 told me that he remembered being given a bath in a tiny red tub in my Mum's living room. He was correct. Once, my Mum's central heating was broken and the only warm place to give ds1 a bath was near the fire in the living room. The tub was tiny, it wasn't actually a baby bath but a small washing up bowl she had, possibly for her caravan. Ds1 was five weeks old at the time and it wasn't ever mentioned to him afterwards.

I can remember being in my carry cot at night and I apparently grew of it at 6 months. Early memory is possible.

My son can remember a few places he has been from age 18 months onwards. These memories are more how he felt than what things looked like. Early memory is not impossible!

My ds used to point at places where he had seen a digger and say digger even when it was no longer there at around 20mo.

I have no memories till I was about 6, assumed that was the norm ?!

I can remember being in my pram. I would have been younger than 6 months because I would have not been sitting. I remember my brothers tartan over pram seat.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that young children can remember stuff from when they were babies, but they lose those memories when they get older. So my 3 year old can remember stuff from age 1-2, but when she's my age she won't remember that, and prob won't remember being 3 either. On Christmas Eve she started talking about Santa's footprints on the floor last year (my husband did them with a pair of boots and some baking powder). She was only 2 - I had no idea she could remember.