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My nearly 3 yo dd2 remembers being born!

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meanmutha · 26/04/2008 11:00

I asked her if she remembered 'coming out of my tummy' and she said Yes. I said what colour was it inside and she said Green !(Ok, I suppose colours are different to people who haven't seen many!) She then said 'I turned into a snake didn't I mummy and I got stuck!' I can imagine how it might feel like being a squirming snake trying to get out and also, of course being stuck.. No-one has spoken like this about birth to her!
Her birth being no. 3 at home and straightforward was not traumatic at all (for me anyway!) and this may be why she remembers so much. My older two I can recall asking but they never came out with this. Interested to hear anyone else on this subject!?? I was bowled over by it!

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meanmutha · 26/04/2008 11:31

Anyone?! Maybe too freaky!

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windygalestoday · 26/04/2008 11:47

in a similar vein my youngest son remembered before he was born .....my mil died 5 years before he was born and one day he was about 2 and a bit(he was a fabulous talker)and i was showing him pictures in the photo album he pointed to her and said nanna b and i said yes and he told us quite vividly at how he waited with her til his special day and that he watched us he spkoe vividly about our holiday to cornwall- he wasnt even there i was pregnant with him!!and then he said in the big house where did i sleep? (he never lived in the big house)then he described all the elder boys stuff if really was quite unnerving made worse by before he told us this, i had a startling 'angel' dream in a similar vein my dh gained a lot of consolation from this and then one day we were asking ds about it and he said its secret im not supposed to remember nanny told me......before you think hes a rainbow child or we are a bit crazy were not and my dh is the first to rubbish anything like this.

Blandmum · 26/04/2008 11:49

I think that this is wonderful imagination for a 3 year old and is, of itself, excellent.

I very much doubt that she can actually remember it, if for no other reason than a baby wouldn't know the word for 'snake' or indeed, recognise one, never having seen one.

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mumeeee · 26/04/2008 12:45

I don't think that she can actully remember being born. But is using her imagination.

Janni · 26/04/2008 13:22

Agree with the last two posters - she has a lovely imagination but will not remember the event. She may have pieced together a picture of it from things she has heard people saying.

Lauriefairycake · 26/04/2008 13:41

of course they remember it, why wouldn't they? it's a pretty memorable experience. They remember the music we play them in the womb too.

hercules1 · 26/04/2008 13:43

SOunds very sweet but she isnt actually remembering the birth.

FranSanDisco · 26/04/2008 13:45

Great imagination. I agree with everyone else who says she isn't remembering being born though.

eenybeeny · 26/04/2008 13:45

even if it seems unlikely I dont think we can definitively say what they do or do not remember. So just treasure her undderstanding of it and who knows? I was in SCBU when I was born and when I was much younger I remembered the name of a nurse who looked after me although my parents never talked about her. I dont know. I just wouldnt say it was impossible. Like ghosts... who can say? Aliens?? Who knows? Now I am sounding trippy!

hercules1 · 26/04/2008 13:47

I dont believe in ghosts or aliens that are amongst us either

FranSanDisco · 26/04/2008 13:49

When my brother was 3 yo he used to point to an old apple tree in the garden and say when I was a cat I used to climb that tree. Reincarnation? He was a strange child

cadelaide · 26/04/2008 13:51

I played music to ds1 in the womb, every

day for the last 4/5 months of the

pregnancy.

It was a compilation of short classical

pieces, he shows no recognition of any of

them and never has (he's 8). They certainly

never soothed him after he was born.

He now says he "hates" music.

I rather wish I'd left him alone!

cadelaide · 26/04/2008 13:52

why did my post come out all shorty and funny?

soph28 · 26/04/2008 13:52

I have asked ds whether he remembered being in mummy's tummy. He said, 'Yes, it was all dark and wibbly wobbly and I was curled up like this' and went into foetal position! He was about 2 at the time. Could just be good imagination/intuition or good be based on some memory. Who knows!

NotABanana · 26/04/2008 13:54

I listened to a CD most days when pg with DS1. He would always react to track 3 and 4 and when he was born I played the music and it would soothe him. It definitely appeared that he recognised it.

cory · 28/04/2008 13:19

I remember telling my Mum about how I remembered being in her tummy. In my heart of hearts I knew I was making it up. But it was still fun.

branflake81 · 28/04/2008 14:07

I can't remeber being born but I can remember my first birthday party. I can remember being given a push along dog and my dad calling me at the bottom of the garden encouraging me to walk. That's probably my earliest memory.

justaboutneedssleep · 28/04/2008 14:10

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itwasntme · 28/04/2008 14:17

My dd used to say that she remembered being in my tummy. She said everything was pink.

I know that she was using her imagination, but it is very sweet.

bambam30 · 28/04/2008 17:42

Right I am not saying i agree or disagree that the op lo 'remembers' being born but what i do find a little wrong is how we dismiss it-for example do we not all remember things from lots of years ago???? and so can we not expect our lo's to remember things too? my lo was just one when we last saw his grandparents and last week he pointed to a range rover and pointed to it and said nanny and grumps car-1.5 years after he has last seen them [thay live in the orknies and so can only manage one trip a year!]

Twiglett · 28/04/2008 17:46

what a load of shite

cognitive development anyone?

CarGirl · 28/04/2008 17:49

Human Beings remember absolutely everthing that ever happens to us. However we can't recall all of our memories.

Blandmum · 28/04/2008 17:57

If you are interested in this

link{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia\infantile amnesia} looks at the relative inability of children to remember much before they are 3 or so.

It isn't strange o think that they lack this ability, after all I can stand upright, but my children didn't do this until they were a year. Their bladders were not fully controled until they were 3 or so. Thir brains will not fully mature until they are 20 or so.

Blandmum · 28/04/2008 17:57

try again!

littleducks · 28/04/2008 18:08

hmm, we do dismiss it easily!
today dd was watching tv while i changed ds nappy upstairs, something must have come on about fireworks and she came upstairs and was talking about the fireworks displkay we went to in nov, she said saw fireworks with X (her cousin) and parked at Aunty's house. I am amazed she could remember that, she is two next month so was 18 months then and not talking but is talking now. We havent talked about it with her as we didnt have a great time and i had forgotten about it!

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