Suggestions needed!! Where to take a four month old?!

[MaltipooMama]

Hi all! So my little one is approaching four months now, and with the weather starting to get a bit brighter I'd like to start taking him out and about more, we do things like walks around the park, we've done a baby spa, baby massage, baby sensory, swimming etc but would like a few more ideas to widen the net a bit, this just seems to be a funny age where it feels difficult to find things that they're actually interested in! He comes out and about with me all the time with doing shopping, going for lunch, going for coffee etc but I'd really like some baby specific ideas if anyone has anything they've done that their baby enjoyed? Appreciate any ideas you can send my way! 😃

Baby rhyme time at your library if they do one.

Honestly, he just wants you. So don’t worry about anything else - do things that occupy and interest you, and he’ll just be along for the ride. Cafe’s, bookshops, etc. Baby groups are nice for meeting other local mums, although he doesn’t care, long walks or whatever passes the time really. Headphones for when he falls asleep. There is nothing more interesting to him than you, with maybe a bit of looking around.

My local council had a program of groups for children under 5, including "Rollers and Crawlers" and other groups designed for very young babies (and for their mothers). I made some good friends and my son still hangs out with the babies he met when they were 4 or 5 months old.

Mine started to really love swimming and music respectively at around that age so we went swimming once a week and to a baby music class. I did rhyme and sign with my youngest which was brilliant for introducing Makaton/signing. But also just really pretty places, local gardens etc for them to look at. Make sure to leave enough time to just snuggle at home and splash in the paddling pool in the summer.

Stay and Play sessions where there will be different toys from home and other babies to interact with.
Look up Children's Centres where you live because that's where a lot will take place.
Or "One O'clock Clubs" that some places have.
Libraries are good. Sit and look at books together. Books like "That's Not My...." are good to start feeling different textures. As said above libraries usually have a Rhyme Time session.
Or....just take this opportunity to do things you want to do that baby can come along with you (while still tiny and portable).
All the colours, sounds, voices etc are interesting to a baby whether that's at a Rhyme Time session or you wandering around the pottery exhibition at your local museum.

He's still only a few weeks old, he doesn't know if he's at rhyme time or in Lidl at this point. Spend this time doing what you enjoy doing, and if that's a walk to a cafe, then do that. He genuinely can't distinguish between the two at this point.

You've got years of pushing swings, driving them to cubs, and teenage sports practice, I didn't do any organised baby activities and my children are well adjusted, phyisically, emotionally and socially literate, and don't remember what they were doing in the first year of their lives. Make that the first couple of years.

Take yourself for a coffee, take a book. Relax, you've been busy making a human.

Mother and Toddlers/playgroups, play areas where you can gently swing him in baby swings. Animal parks will be a good thing to do in the summer, he'll love seeing him and learning from you what they're called.