Memories

[Dodaday]

Just out of interest, what is everyones earliest baby/childhood memory? Mine is lying across an aunts lap having my nappy changed!

I was thinking about this, too, recently. I can remember visiting my Dad's cousin, and according to Mum I described their house really accurately. She reckons I must have been about 18 months old, because it was before my brother was born. I didn't think it was possible to remember anything that young, but Mum is adamant that the cousins moved house about the time my brother was born, so it couldn't have been later.

The reason I started this thread is that I was reading somewhere, I can't remember where, about childhood memories, and it said that scientifically it was not possible to remember things from a very early age, and that in most caeses it was just imagination. I disagree, because I can remember lots from very early on. My mums sister used to baby sit me and my brother, and we used to stay over regularly. Bedtime was uproar, what with us and her kids. I just vividly remember being on her lap, lying face down on my tummy, and looking up to see my uncle sitting at a table smiling at me. Then being flipped over on my back and seeing safety pins in my aunts mouth as she put my nappy on, first pinning one side and then the other. It' just so vivid. I don't know how old I was. It can't have been very old, because changing a nappy on a lap is pretty tricky. How many people do that these days? I can also remember sitting in my pram at the front of our house.

I think I must have read the same thing as you, because I thought it was unusual to remember anything before the age of 3. I also have some memories of the house we lived in until I was just over 2, that as far as I know we never went back to so again, those memories can't be from later. On the other hand, I can barely remember my first term at school when we moved house when I was 10. But although I apparently coped with that move well, there were things about it that were fairly traumatic, and I think I have just blanked that period from my memory.

I find it really interesting, and I am trying to be very aware that dd could potentially remember things that happen soon.

I can remember being left out of a game my sisters and some friends were playing - when I describe the time to mum she reckons I was about eighteen months or so. Also my dd1 (5yrs) can remember things completely out of the blue from when she was about two. It always freaks us out when she recalls something we haven't even thought about for years! Weird.

I have vivid memories of being in my cot and hearing my dad snoring in his bedroom! I have remembered this for as long as I can remember iykwim! i have memories of family holidays from the summer before my brother was born so i would have been about 22 months which my mum has confirmed. I have always just taken this for granted but my DS is nearly 21 months, and just really realised after reading this thread...wow freaky! we are moving soon so if does remember anything about this place we will know its real.... fascinating stuff