“After life is like before birth” argument

I was debating with a friend about what happens to consciousness and the self after the body dies and they hit me with the “Can you remember what it was like before you were born? That’s what I imagine death to be like. Nothingness.”

Fair enough, but I just realized that I also can’t remember what it was like to be 1 or 2 years old, and I know for a fact I was alive and conscious then. My point: just because you remember nothing, doesn’t mean nothing was there.

Do you think this is a valid response to that example?