DS is 5 weeks. So far I haven't done much besides hold him in my recliner and do modified tummy time on my chest. Should I be doing more to engage him?
This week I feel like I've spent all of my time trying to get him to sleep, so I haven't wanted to "entertain" him too much.
Post by countthestars on Apr 3, 2014 14:47:48 GMT -5
I don't think you have to spend tons of time engaging him, but when DD was tiny I liked to talk to her, sing to her, make funny faces at her. I got bored of just staring at her all the time
Do you have a play mat? X loved laying under his and swatting at things. You can shake a rattle for him and thing like that. You can read to him.
I talked to X a lot about random stuff I was doing while we walked around the house and pointed things out. It was nice out during my ML so I'd take him outside and show him the trees and flowers.
We do and my mom pointed out today after she babysat that he might be ready for it since he's focusing more on things now. I just need to keep the dog away.
Do you have a play mat? X loved laying under his and swatting at things. You can shake a rattle for him and thing like that. You can read to him.
I talked to X a lot about random stuff I was doing while we walked around the house and pointed things out. It was nice out during my ML so I'd take him outside and show him the trees and flowers.
We do and my mom pointed out today after she babysat that he might be ready for it since he's focusing more on things now. I just need to keep the dog away.
DS was about 4 weeks when suddenly I thought, "'I should be doing something with you." I put him on the play mat and he loved it. He has spent time on it every day since.
Ditto the recs for using the play mat. I think I started using ours with DD around 5-6 weeks.
At that age, I would read aloud to her from my own books. We would also have "baby dance party" where I would sing along to iTunes and "dance" with her (move her arms or legs while she was propped up on my lap in the Boppy). Or I would narrate whatever it was we were doing.
I basically just toted him around in the Ergo as I went about my business. Sometimes we listened to music or I talked or sang to him, but I got bored of that pretty easily.
We went to Target a lot. He liked looking at people.
I'm still not sure if there's more I should be doing - DS is 9 weeks.
I make funny faces and noises at hkm and interact with him propped in the boppy, sing songs, narrate what I'm doing, spend time on the play mat, shake rattles and other noisemakers, read to him, listen to music.
The weathers really been shirty since I've been on leave, but now we are starting to get out of the house more.
I still don't know what the hell I should be doing with my 3.5 month old, lol.
When V was 5 weeks we used to walk her around the house and show her different things, pointing out colors, describing what was happening in pictures, etc. We listened to a lot of music too, she seemed to really like that.
I basically just toted him around in the Ergo as I went about my business. Sometimes we listened to music or I talked or sang to him, but I got bored of that pretty easily.
We went to Target a lot. He liked looking at people.
Ceiling fan was a big hit.
Yeah, my 6.5 week old watches life go by a lot from a blanket on the floor. He thinks it's great.
His big sister is also great entertainment.
We shake a lot of toys at him.
He just does what we do at this point. I relish it. I know now pretty soon he'll be 2.5 and demand to be entertained all damn day!
We get outside a lot (or will if it ever quits being winter!).
Post by oregonpachey on Apr 3, 2014 16:32:49 GMT -5
I basically did what the other posters did. Playmat, would read to him, take him on walks. I made a goal to get out of the house most days, whether it be a walk around the block, drive to the grocery store, coffee at the mall.
I would talk to him a lot. A LOT. He probably got bored of hearing my voice.