My nearly 3 yo dd2 remembers being born!

[meanmutha]

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!

lol @ twiglett

yes, science would not support those who say this is possible. But then, you don't have to believe science I suppose.

it is wonderful that even at 3yo she has such a vivid imagination, but really that is all this is a beautifully told tale and maybe you wishfully attributing more significance to it

tbh any child who could recall birth would tell you of a time consuming ardous journey and yes it would sound traumatic because a baby being pushed by strong uncontrollable muscular contractions is physically demanding

my DS often talks about "when i was a little girl" !!!!

Well I do have a couple of very clear memories of events that happened before I was 3, so it is possible to remember events at a very young age.

And I do have a sort of sensation memory that never made any sense to me as a child but which I realised as an adult could have been a memory from inside the womb. (Hard to explain but it is a distinct memory of a particular combination of colours, sounds and feeling very enclosed.)

I haven't had any wierd reincarnation-type experiences though!

Hmm, interesting, I am suprised some people are so cynical about it. I too have a memory from 1 year old (grandmother dying)and maybe this is why I thought and still think lo is telling the truth! I agree with cargirl that we just aren't able to access everything in our memories. Perhaps I should do some proper research anyway before I open my big gob sounding like a hippy. What with Catherine Tate being around to dis me!

My first memories are from around 1yr10mo, just before my db was born.
My dd (2.2) definitely recognised (ie remembered) music I had played a lot in later stages of pg- she was always instantly calmed by certain pieces, and still loves them now.

I know this is a very old thread but I was just thinking about a conversation I had with my older soon when I was pregnant and he was somewhere between 2 and 2.5. He asked me how the baby would get out of my tummy and I asked him if he remembered since he's done it himself. His immediate answer was "Over 2 bumps and out the window." This sounded like it could be remarkably accurate and I've always wondered about whether he really was remembering what it felt like from his point of view. I've told this story multiple times over the years but never found anyone who'd had such a potentially accurate conversation with their toddler about the birth process. For some reason I was really pondering his description this morning and decided to see if i could find any threads about other toddlers expressing similar memories. This is the only one I've found after looking for quite a long time.

Mostly I found multiple articles that said that children can't remember events from before they had the language to describe them, as some people have mentioned in the comments below. I'm not at all sure I believe that. I can imagine that young children can have sensory memories of an experience - what it felt like, looked like, sounded like, etc - from times before they were verbal that they can find words to describe once they start learning to talk. It seems to me that there's no reason to absolutely discount it, especially since studies have shown that children can have sensory memories from before they were born, such as of music played frequently while they were still in the womb. Very difficult births can influence children's later development as well.

All of this led me to look for visual depictions of the fetus' passage through the birth canal. What I found was that there are in fact ups and downs along that journey that could be described as 2 bumps and I can certainly imagine that the final exit could look like a window from inside. I wish it were possible to know definitively but if it really was a memory and not just imaginary I think it would be a tremendously cool finding. And also a cautionary tale reminding us that how we treat infants from the earliest ages really does matter.

This is one of the videos that I found illustrating the fetus' passage through the birth canal.

I am almost 50 and I remember things when I was 9 months old. My great grandfather entertaining me and dying the next week. I kept asking them about the song he sang on that day

Also I remembered his clothes, face and I understood absolutely everything there, as a baby. I picture my baby memory even now

That’s interesting. For many years I had a memory of an old man in blue and white striped pj’s holding me. Now all I remember is the memory of having that memory but when I was a kid I described it to my parents several different times and the only association they could make with that description was my grandfather on my dad’s side. He died when I was around 6 months old.

Ooh! I remember starting this thread!
Glad some people are open to the idea/ can report similar.