What stories have you been told about yourself as a baby?

 I was born at a hospital in Prescott, AZ on Jan. 7, 1957.  The first night there was a huge storm that came through the town.  It blew the window out of the room where my mother was.  She was so tired that she didn't wake up.  I'm sure I was in the nursery but the story was that I didn't wake up either.  A pre-curser to the fact that I sleep rather soundly.

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