Bouncers
Our bouncer is the most used piece of furniture/toy in the house. Bea sleeps, play, drools and laughs in it everyday. However, in terms of toys, it’s not the best design. She has a standard Fisher Price bouncer, with a Winnie the Pooh theme, with a ‘rainbow’ that has three little squeaky toys hangning from it with velcro. When she first started using it, she obviously was too small to get near the toys but sort of enjoyed looking at them.
She is now old enough to grab and hold but the rainbow is designed so that no matter how big the baby is, the toys are almost always out of reach. Sometimes they swing into her grasp when I’m bouncing her but they she immediatly tears them off, throws them around and they usually end up on the floor in 19 seconds. The design doesn’t make sense: the velcro is weak enough so that a four month old can pull the toys off but they are two far away for them to really be played with.
I haven’t tested out any different models, but I suspect these are common problems. I would recommend getting a bouncer, but mainly for the bouncing effect, not because it comes with great toys.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
We never even bought a bouncer with my daughter and now that I’m pregnant again we probably won’t need one again. I held my daughter most of the time when she was little but then again with this one I will want somewhere to put her while I do stuff with my other daughter! We shall see. Of course there is always swings!
Victoria
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