Tips and tricks for coming up with activities with your baby in the first few months.

Some activities that children enjoy during the period between 0-2 months are:

• During your child’s first months of life, almost everything is about seeking contact and being close to those taking care of them. Your child has shorter periods of being actively awake, as they can socialise and communicate through eye contact, small sounds and gestures right from the start.
• Lie face-to-face and try to keep eye contact, talk to your child and imitate each other’s gestures and sounds. Your child may need time to respond. Contact when your child is more tired and asleep is more about physical closeness, lying in your arms, smelling and being cared for.
• Talk to your child when you are doing things, for example say out loud what is happening, what you are doing and what they are doing. For example, when changing nappies and bathing.
• Lie close to them, skin-to-skin, so your baby can smell and hear the sounds of their parent’s body.
• Sing to your child.
• Your child can look at objects, such as on a mobile phone above the bed. Your child’s vision is not yet fully developed and therefore your child will prefer sharp contrasts such as black and white and clear patterns.