It seems like a lot of these are "hindsight is 20/20" things ...
Yes, the doctors and nurses told us that ds6 was crazy alert at birth -- I thought they probably said that to all new parents. He *did* scream at the slightest change -- from the day of his birth, he'd scream if anyone other than ex-h or I held him (try explaining *that* to the doting grandparents! My parents just thought he was b*tchy). He rolled over three times at 3 weeks old and then stopped. People commented on how observant he was while we were out shopping with him as an infant. He was very high needs -- lots of yelling when he wasn't being held, freaking out at noises, etc. "High needs" is a nice way of saying what sort of infant ds6 was.
He tested HG+ when we did have him tested.
But I didn't *suspect* he was gifted until he was at least a year and a half. It just wasn't on my radar. And he wasn't an early talker (lots of ear infections, though he may have talked late anyway), so that wasn't an obvious tip-off for us. That's an important difference, in my mind -- looking back, there certainly were signs, but they didn't make me think he was gifted, just an weird baby!
Did others really think "gifted" at birth because of high awareness? Did you have experience with other gifted newborns, that made your thoughts went right to "gifted"? Because even though there were signs back in the newborn phase with my ds, my first thought certainly wasn't "gifted"! It's definitely more a hindsight thing.
