What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?!: Simple Ways to Have the Best First Year Together

by Vered Benhorin LCAT

Music, psychology, and motherhood intertwine in simple activities that instill calm, inspire playfulness, and encourage communication between baby and parent.


Let’s be Caring for a baby can be exhaustingly tedious. Enter Vered Benhorin, musician, therapist, and mother of three. In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Benhorin builds on the foundations of attachment theory and blends practical tools with research to teach parents how to develop a more gratifying relationship with their baby. With her guidance, parents will step into the present with their baby and truly enjoy one another using her easy, guided activities. From a baby buddha massage to babble boost (singing nonsense words), small “bubble moments” throughout the day provide a shared experience between parent and child that benefits both. These moments also have practical applications, like soothing the baby when they’re fussy, making bedtime more effective, strengthening routines, and increasing communication and language. This book is a must-have for new parents everywhere.


 


“This is the best parenting book I’ve read in years." Arietta Slade, Co-Founder and Co-Director Minding the Baby ® Yale Child Study Center


"A beautiful book that helps parents understand their baby and find joyous moments together." Tina Payne Bryson, New York Times Bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child & No-Drama Discipline 


A long day at home with a new baby can feel like a never-ending cycle of diaper changing, feeding, and sleeping. So how can you make it more enjoyable for you both and more enriching for your baby? In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Vered Benhorin builds on the foundations of attachment theory and blends practical tools with research to teach you how to develop a more gratifying relationship with your baby.


In this book you'll learn how



Connect with your baby with mindfulness, music and play
Make your bedtime routine smoother and soothe more effectively
Infuse consistency and joy into your daily routine
Help your baby develop language and communication
Develop your language of play with your baby

This book is a must-have for new parents everywhere.  

Genres: Parenting, Audiobook, Nonfiction

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2025

Reviews

[Nora Linden · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book! It was really repetitive but had some great tips and reality checks. I wish I had read it when my kid was 3-4 months and not 7-9 months.

[Melanie Leiva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciated the author’s focus on creating a sustainable environment to create moments of joy and connection with your baby through music. These “bubble moments” create a bond with baby that doesn’t require you to curate with over the top ideas/activities/toys/supplies. It was affirming to hear Vered’s advice as a parent and music therapy expert. Many of these ideas I have already learned in other books and research, but again, I felt it was affirming and a positive read. Overall, I enjoyed the read for where I currently am in my parenting journey.

If you are looking for a list of varied activities and approaches, this is not the book for you—the focus is primarily creating moments through music with some additional advice sprinkled with personal experiences from the author and other parents. The author has supplemental materials on their website that align to the book and if you simply want ideas on how to bring music into your baby’s life and want to skip the research part of it, I would just go to the website.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title is a bit misleading, I think. The author is a very musical person, so most of the focus of the book is on how to connect with your baby (stop being distracted, find your own pleasure in the one on one moments), and how to sing to your baby (especially how to create your own songs and not feel silly about it). The book is padded out with discussions that took place in her baby/parent classes and general comments from parents.

[Brianna Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book. After reading a lot of informational books on labor & delivery and basic care, this book felt so special because it was specifically on ways to bond with your baby. It was extremely uplifting and creative with ways to have "bubble moments" (or moments where you are present) to better connect with your baby. I look forward to trying many of them out!

[Joahna Doolan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was okay. Very music focused. A lot of it I already had read about before or was already doing. It was basically talk in parentheses, sing, make up songs for your baby based on different routines, dance with your baby, massage your baby, let them lead play, get down with your baby and play with them, play games and see what makes them laugh.

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worked on this book for my internship :)

[Lia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a marketing device for the authors music lol