What is your earliest memory?

[watermelon sugar]

My first memory is, I was around 5 and I just had a roast dinner and scoffed two fairy cakes right after it. I ran up the stairs, took one look at my dog and threw up all over him

 

[SamBamford]

I remember my Dad and his friend meeting up while I was in a pram. His friend had his son with him and they squashed him in beside me. I remember thinking this is my pram not yours. Shame I took it so badly, he grew up into a really good looking man.

 

[Pippylogstocks2]

Honestly waking up in the middle of the night and wondering what I had for dinner the night before and I couldn’t remember if it was chicken nuggets or fish fingers

 

[Mrs Cucumber]

My earliest memory is my mum being attacked in the town by a neighbour, they tried pushing her under a lorry. He went to prison shortly after for harassment. I was possibly just turned 3.

 

[Mrs Cucumber]

That's awful! It's sad that alot of the memories children hold on to are negative!

I'm surprised I remember it to be honest, so much of my childhood is blocked out! I do remember my mum having the softest skin and she still does but has never used beauty products!

 

[Platypusfattypus]

Being dropped on my face. My mum used to play a game where she would hang mu upside down and pretend to drop me but actually did drop me. I was about 2.

My eldest was adament she could remember an event that happened when she was a baby and she could describe it really well in a way I didn't remember it. But she probably heard us talking about it as a small child and put her own spin on it.

 

[tskiry56]

I don't know if I remember any memories from that young or whether because I've seen pictures or talked about it I remember it that way.
I'm quite thankful we don't remember being babies or remember the pain etc as me and my sister were born very premature.
My son who is now 6 remembers his dad head butting me and cracking my forehead open when he was 3. Its memories like that you dont want to remember.
Thankfully we have made lots of happier memories to hopefully out way it. But traumatic memories often stay with you.

 

[Pixipoppy]

I was thinking about this in bed last night, isn’t it weird how no one can remember being a baby? We learn so much at that age but obviously can’t create long term memories.

My earliest memory is my brother being born when I was almost 3. I don’t really remember him, but I remember my grandma taking me up to the hospital and going in a lift.

After that my memories are mainly about my first days at playgroup and school. I remember that horrible feeling of realising my mum had gone and I was on my own and I can remember being small and people looking really big.

What are your earliest memories? Can anyone actually remember being a baby?

 

[Bogwoppit]

I remember holding my lovely Nana’s hand & her showing me my parents house being built I was 2 yrs 5 months when I moved in so would only have been turned 2.

Another time I also remember being in my buggy & just remember how cold my face was, i can remember the rain cover that covered everything apart from my face (early 80’s)

 

[LavaFlake]

I was about two and half and sat in the front passenger seat of my Mum's car. I remember putting my feet on the dashboard and feeling like a legit badass cos I was sat in the front

 

[Justhereforthebants]

I can remember some things vaguely from being like 3/4. My husband always takes the piss out of me and says there’s no possible way people remember anything from that age. I told him a story from when I was about 8 and even then he was saying there’s no way I could remember that. He can’t remember his childhood at all, especially before the age of 10. I’ve always found that really strange, maybe because he didn’t have the greatest childhood he’s just blocked it out .

 

[Pippa M]

I can remember being about 18 months old, ( too many years ago ) sitting in my pram and minding my own business and my brother and sister and 2 cousins ( all a lot older than me ) came and took the brake off the pram which rolled away and crashed into a gate. Fotiunately I was ok but I bet the others got into trouble.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I have a vague memory of sitting on my grandmother's knee. I remember that she was wearing a yellow and white striped dress. She died only a couple of months after I turned two, so I must have been very young at the time.

 

[JD-Morgan]

I remember being dropped off at playgroup which was before school nursery so I could only have been 3 or 4

All I remember is one of the staff holding me with a toilet roll whilst I screamed the place down watching my mum walk out the room, traumatic!

 

[LittleMy]

My earliest memory would be meeting my baby brother for the first time in hospital when I was 2. I remember my Nana doing my hair (she was gentler than my mum). Wearing a white dress and knitted pink cardigan and a pink ribbon in my hair. My dad was there. I remember climbing up onto the hospital bed to cuddle up next to my mum and the new baby.

Another one I remember, around about the same age I think, I was crying my head off in a ball pool at a soft play. I remember being so small and feeling like I couldn’t breathe. I had a fear of ball pools for the longest time after that and avoided them at all costs.

 

[bunnyboo]

My parents crying on the bed after my brother died. I think I was 2.

 

[Kim Mild]

I have frequently heard, that memories cannot stretch back to before we are three years old. I will be one of many, that dispute this, as I have two very vivid memories. A psychologist may say that I have formed these memories, from bits of other information and later memories - but they have always felt very real to me.
I remember sitting on my grandfathers knee. He was wearing a heavy knit cardigan, with those old wooden effect buttons. I was 22 months old when he died, so some experts will say that it’s not a real memory.
I also recall sitting in a four wheeler pram, and freewheeling down a flight of stairs, like there was nobody holding it. The stairs were dark grey - a communal stairway, and not in a house as such.

They say we don't remember the original event, we remember thinking of our memory of it.

 

[chandlercheesecake]

Doing a poo in my nappy and walking into the kitchen. There was a TV on the counter (the old style ones with the big backs) and the Coronation Street titles were playing. I must've been about 2 I think.

 

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

One of my earliest memories is when a boy called me a baby and I was most offended because I had just turned three. I ran inside to get my birthday badge to show him, I remember being outraged that he thought I was a baby

 

[hnoz]

I honestly think my earliest memory was like a year ago
I have loads of manufacturered memories where I think I remember but I’ve actually created a story in my head from a picture.