My 12 week old is often very content laying on his kick and play mat watching the floaty toys hanging above him and trying to reach them, do we always have to be interacting and playing with them? He’s so content if I leave him but then I get the worse mum guilt for not interacting every second of the day when he’s awake😩
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Don’t feel bad mum vibes. As long and you can see him and he is safe there is no harm in sitting on sofa with a cuppa. Don’t know about you but my back kills sitting on the floor at the side of him interacting with him on his play mat after a while. I talk to mine from the sofa. Our LO. Loves talking to his lion rattle more than me most days, so I leave them both to it 😂
Ahh thank you that makes me feel loads better, I never leave him unattended, he will happily just lay and kick away for sometimes even an hour some days!! I did try and pick him up once but he started crying he was just having too much fun!😂 x

Oh I know that feeling. Mine never likes coming off it but they don’t realise how much they are over stimulating themselves at times. He’s grumpy for longer if I don’t give him a time out from it cause he doesn’t settle but he’s over tired himself out… but seriously no harm in it just sit back and let him kick away. I have a routine.hes never out of my sight He plays in his pram first thing whilst I make a drink and sort a few bits out. He then tends to to have his milk then nap. He wakes up he has ‘independent play’ on his mat. On the next round we do different sensory stuff together and then eats, sleeps. Then mat again and we do a bit of both I entertain him then leave him be when he’s had enough of me. I mix it up every now and then for my sanity. But his morning one in pram he absolutely loves. God knows what I’m going to do when he out grows his base of his pram. Won’t be long either 😦 x

They say don't try to make a happy baby happier. If your LO is enjoying himself then there's no need for you to try and add more to what he's doing!
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