Ok Moms, I've been bugging ya'll about bringing on natural labor,baby slings and bundle me covers....now my last question before my baby girl comes(hopefully tonight!!), is which cradle swing did your baby LOVE??? My son used the Flutterbye Dreams one and he loved it but they don't sell it anymore. I was thinking about getting the Rainforest one but it's not very "girly", although it had the best reviews on Babies R Us and Target. Have any of you used this one? Is there a different one you recommend? I'm sending hubby to go get one tomorrow. The swing was a life saver for me last time around so I definitely want one, just not sure WHICH one! I want to make things as easy as possible b/c my body hurts,I'll be breastfeeding, my family lives 4 hrs away,and I have an energetic 18 mo old.
i also have the Fisher Price papasan swing. 2 actually, for my twins. the boys LOVE it. we use it everyday, and i have replaced the batteries only once per swing. this is probably because we don't use the mobile or music, and we always push the swing to get it going so the motor doesn't have to work so hard.
When you want to get things done does it really matter if a product is "girly" enough or would you rather it do the job? I would highly recommend the Rainforest. Both of my children (boy and girl) loved it and I will be using it with #3 come May.
The Fisher Price Papasan Swing has saved the sanity of my husband and I, but I agree that one that ran off batteries and a power cord would be great! Although, I have only to replace the batteries in the Papasan once since my son was born 5 months ago and he uses it a lot.
I have a daughter who is 3 months old and we have the Rainforest one She loves it and the bonus it runs off batteries. My friend has a baby girl who is 4 months old and she got the natural papasan one and she wished she got the rainforest one because her girl is already bored in it. It is not colorful. Rainforest all the way we have the swing, bouncer, high chair and jumparoo and she loves them.
My advice is to get a swing that can run off both batteries and electrical current so that you aren't spending a small fortune on batteries trying to constantly power your swing.
That's why we bought the Rain Forest swing.
Ease of removing baby from swing, especially when asleep, was important to me, as well as careful inspection of design for comfort and making sure nothing can pinch. I'm sure that swings are better designed today than they were 10 years ago, but these are still factors I'd want to be certain of. As well as inspecting recall notices. A decade ago, there were a couple companies that just always seemed to have recalls. I found myself avoiding them as names kept popping up on watch lists. I would research amazon.com and any other place you can find reviews as well before settling.
We personally used a Graco swing that took batteries. But the nice thing about its design was that even when the batteries were dead, we could push the swing alone without batteries. Both my kids loved it. Even when they were technically too heavy to use it anymore (motor won't work past a certain weight), we continued to use it without batteries and motor, just pushing the little swing. It was fairly easy to load and unload baby from as well. Though I would hope today the design would be improved enough to be easier to assemble, etc..
BTW, it looks like your FlutterBye Dreams swing is still being sold by the Baby Center Store here: http://store.babycenter.com/product/code/17077.do?scid=SS...
And it's ON SALE! Looks like free shipping too.
Good luck and blessings....
My little boy liked the popasan swing from fisher price, it has diff. positions, noises, and speeds. CONGRATS on your baby!!!!
My little girl LOVES the Fisher Price Papasan Swing (Naturals). It has multiple positions and swings both ways.
