I have sometimes thought DS1 might have a gift. Sometimes he seems to know things that haven't been said in his hearing. Like one time while I was still on maternity leave from having Tom, I was catching the bus into the city for lunch with friends while Jack was at day care. His daddy was catching the bus to work everyday, but this was my first time catching the bus from that house. I deliberately said nothing in front of him, or in his hearing as I didn't want him to be wanting to come too. No-one could have said anything either, I hadn't even told DH yet. Anyway, when I went to pick him up the carers said he had been saying all day that "Mummy's on the bus, Mummy's on the bus". There have been other similar things happen too. And I have always had a very strong instinct with Jack that I haven't had to the same extent with Tom - like KNOWING that he was a boy from a month before conception (and even more strongly after my BFP), and knowing just in time that he is about to do something dangerous.