I'm a bit worried that this will come across as goady/stealth boasting or something about having quite an easy baby - I promise this is something that is genuinely worrying me!
I have a 9 week old and I don't know how to interact with him, or whether I'm doing it enough. He seems to be a pretty content baby - will happily lie on his playmat or in his bouncer for quite a while (maybe 20 mins at a time?). Tends to get a bit wriggly on my lap, and prefers kicking about on the floor, but loves the sling and takes all his naps in it. So I wear him about three/four hours a day, during which he sleeps and I either potter around or do some work on my laptop (while swaying from side to side so he stays asleep!). The rest of the time I don't know what to do with him. I read suggestions on how to play with a baby his age and do them - but they take minutes! For instance, this morning I thought I'd sing him some nursery rhymes and felt that I'd been singing them (to a baby staring off in the other direction!) for ages. It had been seven minutes when I looked at my watch. I try and chatter away to him but it doesn't come that naturally and again I'll feel I've been doing it for ages and it will have been literally five minutes. I shake a rattle at him or whatever but again after five minutes I feel we've both had enough... I end up feeling like I'm semi ignoring him even though I never really leave his side. Right now, for instance, he's lying on his playmat quiet but seemingly content enough while I'm on my phone - which makes me feel pretty guilty. I always pick him up if he cries or even starts fussing but he doesn't much. Other people talk about only being able to do things while the baby naps, but I can, if I want, easily put him in the bouncer or down on his mat in the middle of the floor for 20 mins and clean the kitchen or whatever. Or sit and read my book. But is it ok to do that? Should I be interacting with him more? And how?!