Where else could I say this without everyone thinking I was a total nutjob? DD was making eye contact in the operating room within minutes of my c-section. The next day she was making eye contact and watching people walk across the room. A pediatrician relative visited me in the hospital and confirmed this. "No, it's not physically possible but yes I see her doing it." The nurses told me that she didn't like the lights in her eyes going back and forth to the nursery so she took her little arms out of the swaddling and put them over her eyes. "Wow" "OMG" "Look, look", etc from all the hospital staff.
We were told "She is exceptionally social" at her 4 week check up when she was engaging the pediatrician and laughing out loud. At 8 week check up "Wow this was fun. Most babies this age just lie there!" It continued as an older infant too - watching and laughing out loud at Shrek 2 when she was 7 months old (she LOVED the dinner scene with Shrek and Fiona's father)
So, yes, she was indeed an unusually alert infant and no she never slept...
