A restless and bored baby

My baby is 5 mo too. At this age, do more activities that help ur baby to explore different textures, colours, sounds and improve his/her simple motor skills. Textured and auditory books are great and let baby hold different items so tt she can practise gripping. It's normal that babies will keep putting things in their mouths as it's their way of discovering things, just make sure to wipe and sanitise. For floor play, I will usually play ball with my boy as he likes to roll ard and alr started crawling. Water play is good too if she likes water. Keep on reading to her too, don't really need so many books at this stage, just keep repeating the same few books and let him/her see how you speak, use varied facial expressions as baby learns by mimicking. For me, I don't believe in buying so many toys, just a few good educational ones are enough as it helps to retain their attention. Some good toys are activity cubes or those musical pop-up button toys. Most importantly, communicate as much as you can with her! (: