Personal Narrative: To Be A Pretty Big Baby

When I was in my mothers womb she had gestational diabetes which caused me to grow more rapidly and develop more quickly physically than the average baby. This caused me to be a pretty big baby at birth, I was ten pounds eight ounces and was about twenty-four inches. Needless to say I was a pretty big baby and that didn’t stop within the first few years. I remember looking at pictures of me with my older brother who was a few years older than me and we looked like we could be twins. A lot of times our mother was asked if we were twins.
Looking back now at the first few years of my life I myself cannot say I remember too much of anything that happened in my life. Asking those who were my caretakers at that time of my life most everyone of them said that I was a pretty normal child and that I developed in the timespans that are expected for children to grow. My mom said that I was a very sleepy child and whenever I was tired I would just fall asleep. She also told me that when I was awake I was very outgoing and energetic and said that I would try to imitate just about anything that her or anyone else would be doing around me. A lot of kids have stranger wariness and separation anxiety from their parents, but talking to my mom she said I actually loved strangers a lot as a kid. The reason why I
This is called animism and this is part of the preoperational development that Piaget addressed. Also when I was younger like I said before I lived for a little while with my grandma and grandpa who had kids at home and I remember one time that my aunt came home with a short haircut I thought that she wasn’t a girl anymore. This is actually normal for kids to not understand that a haircut won’t change your gender but kids can’t comprehend this yet because they haven’t gotten out of this developmental stage