On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep

Author:Ezzo, Gary & Robert Bucknam [Ezzo, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Hawksflight & Associates
Published: 2010-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Baby Alone

Pictures: Putting bright pictures and patterns around the nursery is a great way to stimulate your baby visually.

Mobiles: Moving, musical mobiles help your baby learn to track with his or her eyes.

Gym: Crib gyms and objects that dangle over your baby and rattle when he or she bats at them help to develop her hand-eye coordination. Batting is the necessary preparation for reaching out and holding objects. (For safety’s sake, the crib gym should not be dangled over the baby once the child learns to sit up.)

Swing: Putting a baby in a swing allows your infant to watch what is going on around him or her. Swings are especially helpful for calming fussy newborns. However, don’t get into the habit of letting your baby fall asleep in a swing, since the child needs to learn to fall asleep without this prop.

Infant Seat: This item provides another way you can help your baby to sit up and take notice of the world. Sometimes toys or books can be hung from an overhead handle.

Playpen: Start at one month of age with the playpen. A four-week-old baby can spend some waketime in an infant seat placed inside the playpen in view of a mobile. Also, allow the child to take a nap in the playpen once in a while.

Having some of this equipment—whether new, used, or borrowed—is helpful, but it is certainly not a necessity. In addition to feeding, changing, and bathing your baby, you might have at least one playtime a day when the baby has your full attention for fifteen minutes or so. Dad also needs to spend time each day with the baby in addition to possible feeding times.

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