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anika at birth

Montessori mobile sequence

May 17, 2019 by jayabalar 3 Comments

Introduce the Munari mobile at week. 3


Montessori mobiles are elegant in its simplicity and don’t have music or brightly colored cartoon images. The purpose of each is clear and developmentally appropriate to a child’s growing visual sense. I am a big fan of Montessori’s scientific approach from birth. Below is the suggested timeline we followed to introduce Montessori mobiles.

First few weeks- child lies on floor mat to observe the environment. While this continues over the next few months, we introduce mobiles as an aid to developing their concentration. Here is the sequence we followed:

Week 3– Anika seemed comfortable in the new environment, so we introduced the Munari mobile. She spent a lot of her wake time concentrating on it.

Week. 5 introduced the Octahedron mobile- introduction to primary colors in 3 dimensions

Week 5– Octahedron mobile replaced the Munari. Octahedron introduces the primary colours in 3 dimensions.

Week 6- set up the rainbow mobile, introduction to secondary colours

Week 6- We set up another mobile station near the kitchen in the living room. Anika wanted to be able to see me, esp in the evenings. We introduced the Rainbow mobile, which is the introduction of secondary colours. She thoroughly loved this mobile for many a weeks.

Week 7- We introduced the Gobbi mobile at week 7, which refines the visual sense through the gradation of colors from the lightest to the darkest.

Week 9– We introduced the Dancer’s mobile at week 11. This is the last in the series of visual mobiles and introduces realistic shapes and represents movement, flexibility, bodily expression and potency and human interactions.

Important notes:

  • We changed approximately every 2 weeks or she got bored.
  • After week 11 when she was bored of the dancers mobile and not yet ready for grasping mobiles, we rotated and went back to Munari mobile and started the sequence all over again. She loved them all once again. I also introduced a series of my own batting mobiles.
  • We didn’t want to drill and used the Fealkira Adhesive hooks as our ceiling hooks and they were perfect!
  • These mobiles are followed by batting and grasping mobiles.

Products that we have used

Munari mobile

Double sided mirror

Fealkira Adhesive

Filed Under: Prepared Environment, Montessori at 2 months, Montessori at 3 months Tagged With: prepared environment, montessori baby, montessori mobiles, Anika 1 month old, anika at birth, anika 2 months old, anika 3 months old

Life with a newborn and establishing the day-night circadian rhythm

March 1, 2019 by jayabalar 1 Comment


During pregnancy, I read/ listened to every book I could find about- Montessori, RIE, Forest school, Attachment parenting, Unconditional parenting, Conscious Parenting and off course all the years as a teacher I was suppose to ace this from Day.1! But during the first 3 weeks, I often found myself googling “when does it get easier with a newborn.” The general consensus was 3 months! Well, I must say it gets easier as soon as the sleep is KIND OF sorted!

SLEEP…Luckily it only took us 3 weeks for Anika to work out the day and night circadian rhythm. Here are some things that worked for us:

  • Form bedtime routines- we had a massage, bath, reading, feeding as our night time routine.
  • Set the environment- Anika slept in the sunlit rooms (or in my sling) with noise during the day and night was silent and dark except the himalayan salt lamp that she loved looking at.
  • Understanding the signs for hunger- Anika would root (open mouth move head from left to right) every 2 hours in sleep when hungry. If not feed within 2 minutes of this she would start crying and be wide awake for an hour after. Since we co-slept, any movement she did would automatically wake me up. I would immediately feed her and thus she never really woke up.
  • Nappy changing- was done on my lap (not ideal, I know but anything for sleep!) or the startle reflex would wake her up from her half sleep to fully awake. I used changing cloths on my lap as cover, dressed her in night gowns to make it easy for me and kept lots of sanitizer and the nappy bin handy.
  • If awake- I would only use whispering voices and try and put her to bed immediately. No mobiles and no playtime was encouraged.

After week.3 she still woke up every 2 hours to feed but mostly went back to sleep right away. The only drawback to above was she would not burp in her sleep so was more prone to being gassy early in the morning. But a tummy massage fixed that for us. We all do it differently. While I dont feel like a mama zombie anymore, we still have a long way to go for our day sleep rhythm. This is what worked for us and hope it helps you. Would love to hear how you did this…

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