Books

Around the age of 3 months or as soon as your baby can focus properly its wonderful to look at books together although to begin with your baby’s attention span will be very short. Start with books that contain large colourful, simple pictures like other babies, faces, animals, everyday objects.

Choose sturdy books that will survive being chewed or thrown about and you can even get plastic books to read in the bath. Once your baby has better finger control she will enjoy lift the flap books and books with buttons to press that make sound. By the time your baby is one year old she should be able to concentrate on a short story.

Look for subjects that interest babies like – animals and their sounds, toys, nursery rhymes, babies and familiar experiences like bath time.