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3 Month Old Baby
How To Play With A 3 Month Old Baby
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hi guys today I thought I would show you
how I play with my three month old Riley
is 13 weeks tomorrow or she is exactly
three months on Wednesday which today is
Monday so I just thought this would be a
fun video I've watched a couple of these
videos and I just thought they're really
fun to share so I hope you enjoy this is
how I play with Riley the most often
it's very simple but it's also the most
effective basically I just get straight
into her face and I talk to her
with direct eye contact and the direct
eye contact is very important and lets
her know that I am talking to her she
does not have the same response if she
just hears my voice and I'm not looking
straight in her eyes and when I'm
talking to her I like to pause and give
her time to respond so we have a
conversation going on here she just got
a little bit fussy so I was picking her
up and basically just bringing her into
a sitting position which will also help
hopefully her development for learning
how to sit up and the months to come
yeah but that was just because she got
fussy and honestly she's not always in
the mood to play in certain ways so I
just go by instinct and switch up what
I'm doing based on her mood so now I'm
going to switch her around and I want to
show you basically how I like to roll
her around and it basically puts her
into tummy time but this is to practice
rolling for her she hasn't actually
started rolling on her own yet although
she has a few times but it seems to be
more on accident than purposefully so I
like to roll her back and forth she
really enjoys it a lot of times she'll
smile really big as I'm doing this
although today she was actually a bit
fuzzier so that of course is the day
that I chose to record this video that's
just my luck isn't it but um yeah she
really loves being rolled back and forth
and this is actually a more new
development for her to um actually
really really enjoy this she seems to
have after she basically had her 12-week
growth spurt she also seemed to go
through her mental leap as well and she
just seems to
enjoy playing in a different way than
she previously did although we did do a
lot of these same things before she's
having a much different response to them
and she seems just to be so much
stronger in a lot of her positions and
just having a lot more fun with them so
this is really simple I just keep
rolling her from her back to her front
from her back to her front and I do
different amounts of pressure at
different times to kind of let her
control the movement a little bit
obviously she's not fully controlling it
because I said she's not really able to
yet but um I'm just trying to get her
used to that motion and she seems to
have a lot of fun with it
so it's a great way to play and
sometimes I'll get straight up into her
face while I'm doing it and other times
I'll put like a mirror in front of her
or toy in front of her so now I'm
pulling out the Bobby to show you how I
also do tummy time with her on the
boppie just because I don't know
sometimes she gets fussy or if she's on
the ground doing it sometimes she
prefers to do with the boppie sometimes
she prefers to do without the boppie
it's just a different option basically
it just elevates her top half a bit more
so it's a bit more comfortable on her
belly so um just about it on how her
belly is feeling I guess really is the
difference between whether she wants to
be directly on the floor or if she wants
to be elevated up from the boppie yeah
so she really just seems to enjoy that
and the dribble bib is there basically
just to catch her spit because I don't
want to have to wash the cover for the
boppie
as often I know it sounds really lazy
but she spits pretty much every time I
do it every time I put her in the
position so it's just easier to put the
bib down or muslin down to catch some of
her spit just in case people were
wondering why I put that there so I
thought I would just show you a side
view of what it looks like basically
when I've got her in her tummy time and
basically I just like to Pat her but
while she's in it because she's gassy
and I know a lot of babies are gassy
at this time period and she just seems
to enjoy having her butt tapped because
I think it helps on move the gas around
and basically she really enjoys that so
just showing you that so now I'm just
going to shift
her back onto her back again and show
you something that actually Riley's
daddy started doing with her and she
absolutely loves it and this has
actually been a savior especially during
really fussy periods of hers when she
gets really upset this seems to calm her
down rather quickly and it's been really
great during nappy changes or diaper
changes when she's gotten really upset
this will usually calm her down so you
kind of finish it back off but um we
just take a muslin cloth or any kind of
like light cloth and just we keep very
lightly running it over her face and she
absolutely loves it I mean it gets her
really excited and she just smiles so
big and she loves it I mean you can see
her legs are kicking like crazy she
likes to move her arms around she just
gets really happy when we do this and
she doesn't seem to get tired of it like
he could just keep doing it for ages and
she really loves it so you know try it
out with your baby if you've got a baby
and see if they love it - Riley
absolutely adores this another thing
that she really seems to enjoy is just
basically if you kind of do like I'm not
actually doing push-ups but I'm coming
into her face and then going away from
it and I'll kiss her I'll talk with her
and engage with her and let her talk
back as well and it's just another way
that she really likes interacting with
me and I didn't take any video of this
unfortunately um but obviously another
way that I play with her is basically
just carry her around jiggle her talk to
her she loves being stood right in front
of the mirror while I'm holding her and
I'll just you know have her looking in
the mirror and I'll say things like look
at the baby look at the baby and she
just skits like the biggest huge smiley
ax strain on her face she loves looking
in the mirror I'm pretty sure she
doesn't know it's actually her but she
just loves looking at the reflections in
the mirror and she gets really excited
so you know just carry her around and
jiggle her about and that's just another
way to play with your baby but I didn't
get any of that on film because it's
kind of hard when I
doing this on my own without my husband
because he's at work
to film for me so you know carrying the
baby and trying to film at the same time
it's just a bit much for me so I think
now I'm trying to show how she just
likes to play with some toys but I'm
pretty sure I think at this point she
got a bit fussy so we didn't do that
position but that little peacock thing
there is a toy from the brand Lamaze and
they make really great sensory toys
because they're really bright they've
got a lot of colours to them and you
know they make a lot of different noises
so there's a crinkly bit to it there's a
squeaky bit to it it's got a mirror on
it there's a jingling bit on it there's
lots of different textures to feel you
can see the back of him is in black and
white so it's um really really easy for
her to focus on so sometimes she likes
to actually look at the back of it um
and at three months she's just starting
she like she's been doing kind of for a
couple weeks but she's working on
getting better and better at it
basically grasping things and holding
things so she's not doing this right now
but um sometimes when she's playing she
really just loves having a toy held out
in front of her until she grabs it and
once she grabs it then I just let her
sit with it for as long as she wants
until she drops it and then I'll just
you know pick it back up and I'll offer
it to her again let her grasp it again
and we'll just go back and forth doing
that until she gets tired of it and um
usually you can tell if you know your
baby's tired of doing something because
um you know they've just they'll changed
their expression they'll look to the
side as if they're completely
disinterested like she is right now
she's looking to the side she's got no
interest in doing that but you can see
she did grab the toy you know sometimes
they actually start talking like they'll
start cooing but they'll do it in like
an annoyed kind of a way so those are
all cues for me to stop and try
something else with her or maybe she
doesn't want to play at all
yeah but sometimes just playing with
toys just holding them in front of her
is all she wants to do but I think
because I've been taping this video I've
switched her around so much
she's
like kind of losing interest because
she's like what are you doing like why
won't you focus and just play with me in
one way but yeah with the grasping she
loves playing around with grasping and
you can tell that she gets really
excited because she's like learning new
things and developing in new ways and
you know things basically seem really
simple and almost too easy to you like
why would the baby enjoy that like it
gives them a lot of joy and I mean she
definitely really enjoys it even though
it's nothing big so now I'm basically
just putting her into her play gym
because she really wants to play in her
play gym yeah so this isn't really me
playing with her this is just another
option basically if you need something
where you can put your baby down that's
safe just so you can run out and either
like use the toilet or you know grab
yourself something to drink or eat this
is one of the ways I like to put her um
basically it's really safe I mean I
always leave her where I can see her
pretty much or hear her and she's on the
floor so she can't fall off onto
anything all the toys that are looped on
there they're very secure right now she
can't get them down he can see that
she's grasping like crazy she loves
grasping right now it's like her
favorite thing before she was grasping
she was batting like she was basically
like just you know hitting things and
letting them move around but um yeah a
play gym is a really great thing to have
just to have some place to put your baby
down where they can play and have a good
time so most of the time if I leave the
room really quickly she won't even
notice that I'm gone
and this would just be another option
for where you could put your baby if you
need to put them down I wouldn't
necessarily leave the room while they're
in the bouncer seat although I will
admit I have done but generally if I
keep her in the bouncer seat it's just
because I'm folding laundry in the same
room with her or I've run into the
kitchen to grab a quick drink and the
kitchen I can see her from because it's
a very small kitchen attached to a very
small living room so basically I hope
you enjoyed seeing how I play with my
daughter
and I hope that you know if you have a
baby that maybe it's given you some good
ideas if you have any great ideas for
how to play with the baby please share
them with me because I don't actually
know how to play with a baby these are
just kind of things that have happened
either instinctually
or I've seen other people doing it that
way yeah so please do share if you have
any ideas on how you play with your baby
because I definitely would love to learn
and I'm sure Riley would appreciate it
very much to have new ways to play so I
hope you guys enjoyed and thanks for
watching
