What do you do with your 4 month old??

[Jasmin221]

Hello everyone,
This is my first time writing on here, so apologies if I do it wrong. 😆

My daughter is 4 month old, she's not napping as much as she was during the day. Im struggling what to do with her, I know at 4 months your limited, I sit her in her chair with a toy, place her on her play gym with music, I spend ages talking with her, tummy time, and we go for walks. Any other suggestions?

Would really be greatful.

Thanks girls.

That was pretty much it- still lots of breastfeeding. As long as you are engaging with her I think It doesn’t overly matter what you do.
We did swimming- our local soft play was free for under 1s (that was really just another place for us to do some tummy time and some sensory light watching), I trialed baby groups but hated most of them. I used to put her in the bjorn and go for a 30min-1hr long walk and just chat to her. Went to families where they had a hold. Damn I miss it- 2year olds are exhausting

All of the things you mentioned and:

Going to baby groups
Meeting friends for coffee
Putting baby in sling or park and going about my business really - shopping, cleaning, gardening, library, wandering round national trust places.

Babies are mostly happy to go along for the ride until they're about 18months - 2years, after which it's an endless stream of soft plays and park trips (I love it really). But for now I'd just do what you want to do and baby just comes with.

Sorry, should say 'sling or pram'.

I went to tons of groups at this age, I'm lucky we had bring your baby stand up comedy, pub quizzes in the day, ted talks, cinema, yoga... My little boy loved sensory classes and songs, lots of music and singing. Plus everything you said. This was the last age before his nap time became more regimented and set.

Groups, swimming, share a bath, read baby a story (mine liked me reading anything to them, I'd read poems, books, magazines, newspapers, whatever, they just loved the sound of my voice).
Baby yoga or massage.
Mother and baby exercise classes, or exercises at home.
Put baby in the sling and do the housework, dance around etc.
Visit friends.
My eldest used to come out for the evening with me a lot, but harder when you have more than one!

I also used the opportunity to learn things, and I found that was a good age to study, research and read in the evenings, but I know other people who learnt to cross stitch or knit, some even made a side line business out of their hobby they did at home (jewellery making, candle making, baby boxes, knitting etc.) others studied for their degree, MA or PHD.

Also a fair amount of sitting in your pyjamas cuddling and watching your favourite films is great too, before they are old enough to want to watch their own TV and content to have a cuddle and their hair stroked for more than 30 seconds

Use the opportunity to do whatever you want to do, eg museums and galleries, hanging out with friends, etc, while you still can! At that age you still have freedom to do activities that are for you - very soon you won't. Babies love being exposed to all sorts of different sights and sounds as long as they feel safe. Mine loved watching live music too, and still does aged 2, so that's something we can enjoy together. I also took him out in the evening when he was that young, didn't start a bedtime routine until he was about five months old. But that is dependent on how knackered you are!

As above do whatever you fancy doing because they are so portable at that age!

Thank you so much for all your replys. Looks like I'm doing a lot of what we all are.
They grow up so quickly it's mad.