All three of my boys were very alert from the day of birth.
Aiden was born by emergency c-sec after they tried every drug known to stabilise labour - we have a photo of him quietly staring at DH through the incubator, despite the drugs that the nurses assured us would have him sleepy and quiet for "at least a week"
Nathan was holding his head up before we left the hospital - staring around curiously from birth at every single sound (the sounds in the hospital even interrupted feeding)
Dylan held his head up and looked DH squarely in the eyes before he was 24 hours old. He also stared around after delivery, the midwife said it looked as though he was trying to see out of the bath he was born i,n before crying.
