A health care professional who had never met me before and knew nothing about me, my husband or our child examined DS at four days old and then turned to me and said, "this one will be clever, he's already taking everything in."
I'm a bit worried about DD because so many people told us she'd "been here before" and we got frequent comments about her alertness and interest in the world... I think she was more alert than DS so we might be in trouble there!
I have a midwife friend who insists she can tell gifted kids from 'average' kids in their first weeks of life - among those she's managed to keep track of she hasn't been wrong yet.
Neither of mine were particularly restful in-utero either... and both had very clear music preferences from before birth, although I never knew if they liked or disliked the music they moved the most for, lol!
