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Brain Builders
Stimulating Activities for Your 3-month-old Baby
By Tammy Morey
The following exercises were designed to help your baby work on many of these skills. Keep in mind they will stimulate your baby's entire body. Each time you perform the exercise, your baby is actually responding; her brain will be registering the action, and her muscles will be getting stronger.
Down like a plane,
Back and forth like a Choo-choo train.
I can fly here,
I can fly there,
I can fly anywhere.
Begin by lying on your back and placing Baby on your tummy with her head toward your face and her feet toward your feet.
While saying the first line, with your hands firmly around her chest, raise her in the air and raise her toward your face. For the second line, bring her back down to your chest. For the third line raise her up in the air, move her in forward-and-backward motion. Then raise her up like an airplane and move her around in a circular motion for the last lines of the rhyme.
Brain-building skills: Develops strength and balance
Muscles exercised: Head and neck, shoulders, upper and lower back
Exercises performed: Head and neck lifts
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Re: Brain Builders by jessica on 10/10/2008 07:27PM
Thank you for all the good info. I have a 3-month-old little boy and he is my first child. I learned a lot, and thank you for that!
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Re: Brain Builders by amy on 10/13/2008 05:25PM
Thank you!