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My son is 4.5 months old. I am a SAHM and am wondering what you girls due to stimulate your baby all day? Do you have a routine for play time? TIA
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Not a stay at home mom however my MIL follows the schedule i made for her and i follow it when i am home (well as much as you can!
.. the activities are as follows:
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Stretches- Start with this.
· Stretch his arms and legs in different ways
· bicycle legs
· narrate everything you do
Tummy Time – at least 15 minutes a day
· Use Joe (stuffed octopus that he loves!) to encourage him to bring his head up.
· Use boppy pillow, whale pillow, or frog (tummy time pillow) to help him. He can also lay on a flat surface
· Naked baby tummy time- use a towel under him.
Play mat or laying on his back
· encourage him to grab items dangled in front of him
· dangle keys or joe on his side to encourage him to roll over
· show him how to roll over and back
Dance and Sing
· dance around with him to the music
· lay him on his back or sit him in his boppy pillow and move his arms and legs in tune with the music.
· Sing along with the music and show him how to make the sounds
· Sing nursery Rhymes with him and show him movements that he can mimic. Itsy bitsy spider, paddy cake ect..
Walk around and look at different things (both inside and outside)
· Walk around with him and show him different things, point to something or hold it up to him and say what it is. Show him how to make the sound with his mouth
· Show him simple words with movements that he can try to imitate. Example nodding head for yes, shaking his head for no. waving for hello and goodbye, hand to mouth for bottle
· Show him shiny things smooth things rough things let him see and feel them
· If things have a smell let him smell them like flowers or sweet food items soaps ect..
· Play with bubbles outside encourage him to watch them and use his hand to pop them.
Ball play
· While sitting up or on his tummy roll the ball to him and show him how to kick or roll it back
By the time we get through the list he is ready for the B's as i call it:
Bottle, Burp, Book, Bed
We don't have a structured routine but on days that we stay home she goes in the jolly jumper once or twice for 20-30 min. She goes in the exersaucer once or twice for 20-30 min. Has naked tummy time once or twice. She sits in high chair with my husband while he has breakfast. She sits in high chair while my husband and I have supper.
She is only awake for 1.5hr max between naps and with feeds and diapers there isn't too much time left.
I go hang out with mommy friends 1-2 afternoons a week. We go swimming once or twice a month.
In September we are signed up for swim lessons once a week and music class once a week. My 2 mommy friends with babies the same ages are signed up in the same classes so we'll hang out before or after.
I am big believer in having kids learn to self entertain, my daughter is more than happy to entertain herself on the toy mat or veg out on the couch beside me. I think this will be one of the most important things I can foster in her at this time. As much as my husband and I spend a lot of time engaging her each day we understand how important it is for children to have unstructured free time to entertain themselves.