Defiance stated: source post
Umm, Tony, you know that babies roll over and crawl well before they can sit unassisted, right? There's no way that would have been the first thing that you tried, and you would have been able to crawl away when your brother started messing with you.
Unused womb.
Sitting up comes before crawling. For the amount of weight and strength required coupled with how useful the arms are at the time, crawling is a bigger task than sitting up, and it remains so to this day.
Defiance stated: source post
Erm, no. Crawling comes before sitting up in like every single baby i've ever seen ever.
Are we to believe you've watched every single baby you ever seen, develop ?
They first flip themselves over onto their front, often while reaching for smth far on the other side, and then figure they can use their limbs to get up from that position.
They roll over onto their stomachs, and this helps the back and neck muscles develop. The infant will arc with their hands spread out. At this stage they can only do it for a short while, and the arms wouldn't be strong enough either.
Going from lying flat on the back to sitting is a harder thing to do.
I don't recall saying the first time I got up was a tummy crunching sit up, but rather a grueling struggle.
You were probably trying to turn over, but you've changed and embellished this memory over time the more you've thought about it.
In doubt you'd argue you know one's reality better than they, that is the mark of faultiness.
Plenty of practice sitting upright (plus tummy time, too) will help your little one to develop the upper body strength he'll need to eventually start to crawl and stand up — which will eventually lead to baby's first steps.
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Crawling is your baby's next big achievement after sitting up. Crawling is usually, though not always, a key step on the journey to walking.
It's not that I'm an expert in any of this, but I took it upon myself to look it up.
I know what I experienced and it's my memory.
Sitting up was hard. It's right next to trying to get up without any working muscles. At 4 or 5 months, trying to get up requires such strain, getting on all 4's with the head up, then crawling when the muscles aren't ready, doesn't happen till they're ready.
Any baby that's strong enough to crawl, can already sit, as crawling is a bigger task then getting up to sit on our asses. It was like that back then, and even as we grow up, sitting up remains more efficient between the two tasks.
My earliest memory was when I was about 3 years old, strapped into a carseat.
I don't remember the car hitting the water, but I do remember the pressure building in my ears, and the ringing sound that grew unbearably loud so as to become a white-hot throbbing behind my eyeballs.
And I remember thinking, "This is where the fish live."
Later on, maybe at 10 or 11, I remember being in a beautiful old house with a deer's head mounted above a hearth, a black grand piano and brown leather sofa's with brass buttons nailed into the front of the armrests like gold arches.
And the man showed me a Galileo Thermometer, and I felt a prickling sense of dread because the little floating baubles reminded me of sinking.
I was one or two when I had my first memory. I was chasing my brother around this greenhouse and I remember that he was wearing this aqua shirt and khaki shorts. It must have been more of a garden then a greenhouse because there were white walls... They were probably a lot shorter than I remember them though. There was a lot of white. The floor was even white. It was really bright. Oh, and then standing off to the side was Dr Pavlov, or Papa.
Erm, no. Crawling comes before sitting up in like every single baby i've ever seen ever. They first flip themselves over onto their front, often while reaching for smth far on the other side, and then figure they can use their limbs to get up from that position. Going from lying flat on the back to sitting is a harder thing to do. You were probably trying to turn over, but you've changed and embellished this memory over time the more you've thought about it.
hdiver stated: source post
i remember coming out of the birth canal
Can you not even be genuine about your earliest memory? No one is going to track you down based on your memory of a bubble bath with a rubber duckie at two. Why did you even post here?
I'm resolved to be more open, so I'm going to ask this question. I'll throw in a .gif. Lighten shit up, and such.
Does anyone else with a reasonably traumatic childhood have this weird (what I've coined) "heart-filter" on memories?
Some memories I know are present (as in, tip of the tongue textured, rounded, complete), but my heart begins to pulsate unbearably when I attempt to access them. Almost as though there's a lock on the filing-cabinet in which they're stored, or an electrical safety-switch. Not quite repression, because the flavour and architecture of the memory is there, but the details are protected.
As I type that, I'm assuming it's not terribly relatable.
Still. As promised.
