PREPARING YOUR

HOME
 TWO MONTHS TO FIVE MONTHS

RUTHANNE TREGASKIS
 Preparing your Home
2to 5 Months

Two Months to Five Months

From two months to five months your baby development truly awakens.   Movement commences
for your baby. You’ll see this first in baby’s ability to support his head. Soon movement progresses
to rolling over and sitting with support. Baby’s hand activity progresses from the grasping reflex,
to holding a toy and passing it from one hand to the other. During this time you’ll be enchanted
by baby’s first smile, melodious, soft cooing followed by baby’s repetitious squealing and
babbling. There is much to prepare for in support of this time of awakening development. 

Preparation of your home in

readiness for your baby’s
awakening development means
you are able to support this
tremendous time of change and
growth.    The following areas of
your home are prepared to
ensure you’re able to continue
meeting the needs of your baby
and accommodate your needs
too.

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This space is peaceful and calm. It offers beauty, natural light and visual stimulation and supports your
baby’s need to establish and maintain his points of reference, his familiar memories and experiences in
his after birth world. It offers support to establishing your new relationship with your baby. This is a space
where you can lovingly and sensitively hold, handle and feed, if you prefer to feed in private, your baby.
In the space four main areas are prepared:

1. AN AREA FOR SLEEPING

 A special bed for your baby. As a newborn this maybe a
Cestina or a broad cradle: a basket style of bed that offers
an elliptical shape similar to that of the uterus but wide
enough for unhindered movement and a firm mattress
positioned high enough in a basket to ensure your baby’s
vision is not obstructed. Your baby will out grow the
Cestina at about 10 -12 weeks. From about 10 – 12 weeks
transition baby to a  low bed positioned against a wall in
baby’s space.

2. AN AREA FOR FEEDING

- 1. Until breastfeeding is truly established you may find it
beneficial to feed in this quiet, protected space. The area
for feeding includes:
 
A feeding/comfort pillow or Topponcino, used when
feeding and holding baby. 
A comfortable feeding chair with foot rest 
 A side table with an added photo frame of you or
your family and your baby. 
Also add a small vase of fresh flowers for an element
of beauty. 
Support items, stored within the side table, for
breastfeeding: breast pads, soft fabric cloths for care
of your baby during and after breastfeeding. 
If you used a receiving cloth of a natural fibre from
birth, you might now use that cloth as a beautiful,
light cover rug for baby. 

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3. AN AREA FOR PHYSICAL CARE

 A change table and change mat. 

Storage facilities for: accessories for changing your baby,
containers for laundry (soiled and clothes), and for storage of
your baby’s clothing. 
A potty is now included. It is added at about four to five
months in preparation for the commencement of learning to
toilet. It’s your decision where in your home you place your
child’s potty. If your home is large, for convenience, you may
need more than one potty 
An Area for Bathing and Accessories which includes: A baby
bath and stand, towels, preferred baby products.

 4. AN AREA FOR MOVEMENT

 A movement mat with mirror and cushions. 

A low shelf for placement of your baby’s toys for visual,
tactile and auditory sensorial exploration.   
 A mobile hanger and mobiles positioned over the
movement mat. Baby’s mobiles now provide support for
a great deal of progressive and exciting interaction to
further support hand eye coordination, grasping and
visual focusing and tracking

  As baby develops his capacities of his hands and body and as his language also continues to develop
your baby simultaneously develops in natural pathways of independence that are supported by his
experiences, growth and development.

 Soon your baby will be sitting with support and showing interest in the solid foods eaten by you and
his family group. These are a few of the indicators that you can add a weaning table and chair for baby
with an adult stool for you to your home. The accessories to weaning are an important addition to
enable the process of weaning to proceed with ease for you and your baby.

 The preparation of the home wholly supports the awakening of your baby’s development through
sensorial exploration, baby’s hand capacity and movement, the development of language, and support
of baby’s steady gains of independence.

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 P R EP AR IN G YO UR H OM E

Two to Five Month Checklist

Checklist
These essential items for your home and baby wholly support the awakening of your baby’s development
through your care of your baby, baby’s sensorial exploration, baby’s hand abilities and movement, and the
development of language. All support your baby’s, natural, steady gains of independence.

FOR FEEDING
! A feeding/comfort pillow or Topponcino

! Feeding chair

! Footrest.

! Side Table: To store breastfeeding accessories

! Breast pads

! wiping / burping cloths.

! A framed photo featuring you and baby or family and baby on the side table.

! A small vase of fresh flowers for beauty on the side table

! Breast Pump (optional)

! In preparation for the process of weaning and the commencement of solid food: A weaning table
and chair with adult stool and accessories to weaning.

FOR SLEEPING
! A low bed.

! Bed linen and blankets.

! Waterproof mattress protector.

Preparing Home for Your Newborn – Birth to Two M

FOR PERSONAL CARE
! Change table. ! Baby bath and stand.

! Change mat. ! Accessories for bathing baby:

! Nappy bucket/s with lid. o Bath wash

! Accessories for care of baby: o Shampoo

o Nappies o Towels (hooded),

o Wipes o Face cloths

o Barrier cream o Disposable cotton wipes.

o Cotton tips

o Soft baby hairbrush

o Baby nail clippers/scissors.

! Storage facilities for baby care accessories.

! Storage facilities for baby’s clothes.

! A small bin with a lid.

! A potty or two in preparation for the commencement of learning to toilet.

FOR SENSORY PLAY

! Mirror.

! Low shelf.

! Toys for sensorial exploration: These toys specifically support baby’s sensory development of the visual,

tactile and auditory senses and development of hand eye coordination.

! Toys for stimulation of sensory motor movement and equilibrium development through visual, tactile,

auditory and movement experiences.

! Mobile hanger.

! Mobiles that provide focusing and tracking experiences and now also offer an interactive element.

! First books.

! A small basket of first musical instruments.

! Realistic framed art.

OUT AND ABOUT
! A pram with sunshade, rain/insect cover.

! A baby capsule/infant carrier or convertible car seat. (Extension straps if required.)

! A sling/front carrier

! For care of your baby when going out:

! A baby change bag and accessories:

o Change mat

o Nappies

o Wipes

o Barrier cream

o Disposable bags for dirty nappies

o Spare cloths, spare baby clothes

o Breast pads

o Hat.

*Hint: Keep with you - a spare set of your clothes, a snack, full water bottle and a hat.

! Movement mat.
 Bell and Ribbon
Preparing the Home For Your Baby
- Room Layout Two Months to Five Months

Window Window
Place all of your accessories for
Side
breastfeeding in the side table.
Feeding Table Movement
Chair Mat
Use your feeding/comfort
pillow/Topponcino while Mobile
breastfeeding baby. Cushions Hanger

Place a framed photo of H

Foot Mirror
Rest mother and baby or the family s
and baby on the side table. a
Add a small vase of fresh n
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of beauty. e
Low Shelf r
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Low Bed Provide your baby framed art with a g
By about 10 to 12 realistic theme and a subject which e
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grow the Cestina or framed art at your baby’s eye level. Change Table
broad cradle.
For example: Bowl of fruit or vase
Position baby’s low of flowers, birds or something your
baby will recognise from your
bed away from
outings in nature, like a visit to a
power outlets.
duck pond.

Container for
soiled clothes.

Add the potty

at 4 to 5 Potty
Parent’s storage cupboard: Useful for storage of your baby’s months as
clothing items, baby care products, extra breastfeeding preparation
accessory items, extra linen and toys in readiness to support for learning
baby’s unfolding development. to toilet.

C Bell and Ribbon Pty Ltd.

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