Entertaining a 3mth baby

[Minibabe]

Hello, I am at my wits end trying to entertain my 3 month old. He used fo sleep for 2 hours at a stretch and now wakes up every 1 hour and cries a lot more. HELP!

3 months is a tough age, I remember going a bit nuts when DD was at that stage I used to sing to her a lot and play guitar, she liked that. We went out for walks every day as well. Can your DS hold onto toys and things yet?

just chat to him and sing to him ect playmats and small rattles (obviously with your help) as he gets older he wont be sleeping all day but i would have thought that'd be a good thing, ds2 12 weeks has not really been a daytime sleeper scince birth but its great just means he learns allot more and sleeps better at night

oh and if you really do need a couple of hours and would like him to nap just take him out for a walk, ds2 always falls asleep for his afternoon nap when i take ds1 to nursery!

put him in a sling in the house if you have stuff you want to do and sing, as some of the others suggest

Hello, thank you for all the replies! I've tried the walks during day time and a warm bath before bedtime. Also I've stopped trying to rock him to sleep and as soon as he is nodding off, I wait about 10 minutes and then put him in his crib. I place my hand on him, so that he thinks, I am still next to him and then let him sleep. Things are much better mums!

Amazing how quickly they change, isn't it? My DD is 3 months too and a few weeks ago I was worrying she was sleeping too much! Now she has 3 nice naps in the day (and one not so nice late afternoon/ evening one that involves me pacing the floor/ rocking/ everything I can think of/ eventually sitting down with her for an hour in the rocking chair). In between naps, I make sure we get one outing in the day (walk in pram, car to shops, baby group, clinic!). Before the morning nap is getting dressed, long interaction time. Once in the day she sits on the bed or in her bouncy chair watching me fold laundry or clean the kitchen! We do some singing and action games, blow bubbles (she'll watch them for ages), read books, play with rattles together. At least once a day she gets a good long session lying under her baby gym playing on her own!

3 months is a tough age - they're starting to take more notice of the world around them but don't yet have the motor skills to pull the things they are interested in a bit closer to have a look!

I have a 'triangle' of activities so we go from bouncy chair (with dangly things) to play gym (with dangly things) to blanket with stuff on the floor both sides including a mirror.

Otherwise, if none of those work I figure that all dd2 really wants is a snuggle with mummy and so I'll hold her close and keep singing (anything will do, even singing the shopping list aloud) and sit her facing out instead of in so she can see what's going on.

Interspersing this with a feed and a nappy change soon fills the time