When I emailed my boss a picture of my son at 10 days old, he emailed back that he'd never seen a baby look so alert. DS was looking right into the camera with a look that said, "What is that and what are you doing?" DS was my first, so until that point, I hadn't thought anything of it.

I also had a lactation consultant tell me really early on that DS was going to be bright based on his terrible sleeping habits.