Occupying a 3 month old

[GreenElephants]

This is my first post on mumsnet so I hope that I post correctly.

I am looking for some advice on my 3 month old son. He is a great sleeper and sleeps through at night and has small naps between each feed so is awake a lot of the day. He seems happiest in his bouncing chair and isn't a baby that likes being held for too long. I am worried that I am not stimulating him enough or if he is happy as he is. Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks.

I think you are doing fine!

My ds2 is 9 wo. He spends time in his bouncy chair, time under his baby gym, time in our arms being chatted to, time in his downstairs crib (awake and asleep....sometimes I need the loo or to check dinner, so he goes in awake but happy).

We go out everyday to pick up ds1 from school and at the weekends we go on family walks in the woods or along the canal or to local parks. We ave also just started baby signing classes.

He has a box full of toys from Christmas, but can't play with them yet, so he is basically along for the ride with us. He will soon let us know if he is bored....soon this time will be a distant memory and you will ache for a day of newborn nothingness to counteract the toddler chaos!

That is good to hear, I was worried he might be bored. He used to go under his play gym but doesn't seem to like it at the moment since he has been rolling, I think he is getting frustrated.

I'm sure he's fine. I stressed about this too and got all manner of exciting educational things to improve his mind. He ignored all of these but loved watching the washing machine or laying on the floor as I put away clothes. I tried to give a change of scene every so often and move him from tummy to back for a change but he's got plenty of stimulation from the every day world around him.

That is what I did, loads of toys but he isn't interested in them. Whichever way I put him he seems to find the tv too which I feel guilty about so I've turned that off!!

I felt horrendous about this. I think that we get told so much that we need to talk to our babies, that we beat ourselves up if we don't provide them with educational, stimulating experiences at all times.

However, what I realise now is that my baby was perfectly happy at that age looking at things on her play gym, watching me get on with things from her bouncer or looking at herself in a mirror that I put on the floor. I felt awful to not be talking to her constantly - but I was being overly worried, and should have had confidence that if the baby seemed happy she was happy.

It sounds like you are doing absolutely fine.