My 3 month old is bored!

Please help me with ideas to do before nap time! Trying to get him tired before bed and I'm confident that he is just bored of the same old thing. We have the fisher price piano kick and play, the Graco swing and love every toys. We also do tummy time in which we have the dancing crab, peak a boo elephant and a water sensory mat. I also bring him on walks.
He is a though one. He gets bored very easily!! Yes I talk to him and read to him but really it gets old lol

Looking for sensory play ideas that a baby his age would be interested in.

Read more on Peanut

The views expressed in community are solely the opinions of participants, and do not reflect those of Peanut.

Learn more about our guidelines.
Add a comment
Avatar

We sing and dance, as well as my fiancé sings a song at normal speed, fast, slow and he will hold the babies while walking, running, and or slow walking and he sings along. Sorry if that was explained terribly lol

Avatar

I really think that he just gets bored doing the same thing and gets fussy over it despite the growth spurt and other things. I'll sit there talking to him and he'll laugh and then cry after a while but doesn't want anything else. Then will sit on the swing or his playmat for a while but then cry when it's been too long for him etc.

Avatar

it sounds like he is gassy or may be having stomach problems? Have you tried the mommy bliss gas drops? Mine gets fussy sometimes too out of nowhere and it has helped her. She sleeps better too from it

Avatar

He might be bored. But babies also forget it easily. My daughter gets tired of activities after a short while so we try something else. And then when she gets tired of that we might go back to the last thing we just did. So try to repeat some activities she’ll create the memory and a habit out of the recognition. Do what works and when he gets tired of one thing do the other again. Honestly this is the time to start making your schedule based on what’s working. If it works once it’ll work again

Avatar

we use Mylicon

Avatar

We like to take our 3 month old for lots of walks. He likes to sit up a little in the stroller so he can see everything and loves looking up at the trees. He also has reflux so even though he's taking meds we try to sit him up for a little while after he's eaten. Walks are an easy way to do that.

Avatar

My little guy loves his baby bjorn bouncer!!! He loves to bounce himself. I also pull over his little activity mat that has the toys hanging so he can grab them/hit them etc. he gets bored of things easy too so switching it up definitely helps us a lot! Every time he is in the bouncer he wears himself out and takes a good nap/sleeps better!

Read more on Peanut

Trending

in our community

Parenting 24/7 is harder than going to work full time?

I’m having a debate with my partner as he’s done nothing to help since. Our 14 month old was born, I’ve done it all alone all day and all night. He gets a break when he comes in from work all night I never get a break
He try’s to tell me it’s harder going to work full time 5 days a week than parenting ALONE 24/7?
What do you think

Avatar

1

52

Partner is giving me the silent treatment

So I was struggling with my postpartum anxiety bad yesterday. My partner and I was out for drinks with family. He kept making jokes about treating me a bit shit.
Which no one thought was funny. I am usually quite patient about him using me as his jokes, but yesterday it hurt.

When we got home I told him it made me feel disrespected. Now he is giving me the cold fat shoulder?! What do I do ?

Avatar

4

Divorced at 5 months PP

My husband just divorced me yesterday.

I'm 5 months post partum and I feel like complete shit. I literally can't stop crying and I don't feel like eating and this whole week my milk supply has gone down due to stress and not eating. What helps with milk supply?

The divorce- on Monday at 5am me and my husband had a small argument on text. It was regarding him not catering to my love language. I sent him a video on how women shouldn't have to ask and how laziness can kill a relationship. We've had many arguments regarding this prior about him not catering to my love language and he doesn't buy me flowers or doesn't think of me. Anyways this night, he text me saying he doesn't do Mother's Day and all that, he doesn't want to buy me flowers because my sisters buy me flowers and he can't be arsed with my moods. He said I've not been his peace and said he's done.
I replied "okay. All I want is for you to appreciate me and love me as your wife and mother of your child. I'm not pushing you away, I'm begging you to love me etc etc. I'm done too."

I come home from my errands that morning and he's upped and left. He took all of his belongings, clothes, drawer, tv- everything.

He didn't ring or text me or anything.

The property is in my name and as he left and didn't leave the key, I changed the locks the next day. I feel this is what pushed him over the edge.

He officially divorced me on Saturday.
I'm 5 months post partum and I have a 5 year old from my ex partner too.

I just want to talk about it with someone that's not biased. Was I asking for too much? I feel he just didn't want to be with me anymore and used this as an excuse? Or is that me overthinking....
Input would be nice xoxo

Avatar

1

7

FTM

Hello,
FTM here. At what age do you stop applying cream on nappy area during nappy changes? My 2 year old boy isn’t toilet ready yet but uses both nappy pants/pull ups and regular diapers

Avatar

5

I live in a small 2 bedroom flat. How do I keep my home smelling nice?

Especially bedroom considering dirty laundry lives in there too. I do laundry once a week because I don’t use enough to do more frequent.
But I just want my room smelling nice and cosy.

The more natural the method the better ladies 😣
I open windows everyday. I don’t get enough sunlight for plants 😭

Avatar

15

wtf moment?

I have been going back and forth with my husband lately. Well not lately it’s been years. He is the best husband and father you could ask for; for two weeks. Then he’s inconsistent. It drives me mad. Then he’s back to husband and dad of the year , then back to same inconsistency. I talked to him about this last night and he said “if i was lovey dovey and acted like this all the time you’d get bored and cheat on me.”

Ok so for starters i know some of you are going to say omg omg omg super controlling omg leave omg. No im not doing that. Im happy he finally admitted his wrong doing and taking accountability for it but id like to know the deeper reason, the what the f has him thinking like this reason, the personality trait reason. He’s obviously scared I’m going to leave him; so much so that he’s doing this dumb shit to prevent it. Past trauma? What do y’all think I can do to get him to see I’m not going anywhere? I’m consistent already, I married him, we have a baby. He really is the love of my life. I have never loved another man like this before.. but this shit is for the birds and he thinks he’s keeping me doing this but in actuality it’s making me lose respect and detach.

Avatar

5

Read more on Peanut