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Brain Builders

Stimulating Activities for Your 5-month-old Baby

By Tammy Morey

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Are you ready to rock and roll! This month Baby is rockin' and rollin' all over – wiggling, wriggling and rolling her body in ways to get what she wants. And she is expressing herself quite well, too, with squirms, giggles and wails to let you know how she feels. That's just the beginning of all the wonderful experiences awaiting you and your baby in her fifth month of life.

Routine, Routine, Routine
All babies flourish in an environment that is consistent, orderly and predictable. By providing your baby with a routine, you are establishing a lifetime of security and dependability. Now is the perfect opportunity to incorporate a routine into your life or reassess the one you currently have – both for you and your baby. First, evaluate whether or not you are taking adequate care of yourself, then assess your baby's well-being through the following ABCs assessment from Susan Ludington, author of How to Have a Smarter Baby (Bantam, 1987)):

  • A – Appearance: Does Baby appear happy? If yes, continue with B. If no, then evaluate the behaviors that promote security such as establishing a bedtime routine to ensure adequate sleep.
  • B – Behaviors: By now you will probably have had enough time to establish a routine based upon her patterns of sleep/wakefulness/hunger and ensure that you organize your day accordingly. During the day, she will probably require two to two and a half hours of wakefulness approximately four times a day. She will need 10 to 12 hours of sleep each evening, which may or may not be interrupted by feeding.
  • C – Care: Is Baby receiving the essential play and sense opportunities? The play opportunities are: structured, unstructured, interactive and free play. The sense opportunities are: vocalizing, visual, tactile, listening, taste and smell opportunities.

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