Playing/Interacting with 4 week old

SuperSuz

DS is just over 4 weeks old and totally starting to have awake time during the day. ?Yesterday morning DH and I gave him tummy tiime on his play mat thing and then started to introduce some of his new toys that he got for Christmas. ?I think we overstimulated him - we played for about 20 minutes and he was super fussy for the rest of the afternoon. ?This morning DS was awake after his feeding so I put him in the swing for a few minutes so I could brush my teeth, etc. ?After I took him out and tried to play with him with a toy and he got all fussy - so I put him in the swing and he calmed right down.

Is anyone else's DC like this? ?Do you think he's getting overstimulated? ?Or sometimes is just a few minutes with a toy/tummy time, etc sufficient? ?I want to interact with him, but obviously don't want to over do it...?

Mrs.Beans

My DD really wasn't interested in playing or toys or anything until about 2 months - he may be overstimulated.  Now at 10 weeks, she enjoys interaction and loves her rattles and especially the mirror on her playmat. 

jamira

Just follow his lead. As soon as he looks away then stop play time. At four weeks we would show him a rattle and move it side to side and up and down to work on visual tracking. Also when DS was 4 weeks he would only do about 10-15 mins of one activity ie swing for 15, bouncy for 15 play for 15.