Fisher-Price Aquarium Take-Along Swing
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Baby Products Reviews of Fisher-Price Aquarium Take-Along Swing
Customer Review: Great Swing - Keeps Baby Entertained!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second of these Aquarium swings we've purchased. We travel to visit family often and, while this swing folds up, it takes up a lot of space in our car.
We've been thoroughly satisfied - our three month old loves the swinging motion and the lights, and will sit peacefully as the music plays. We usually swaddle him before putting him in the swing so he sleeps longer. The music has an auto-shutoff feature and the only thing that makes him angry is when the music ends and he isn't asleep yet!
This swing also has a nice feature that will activate lights and music if your little one pulls on one of the dangling straps. This provides some interaction for the child as he/she grows up and wants to have some control over the action on the swing.
Takes 4 "C" batteries and we get about 20-30 hours of life from them when running the swing, light, and music at the same time. Your mileage may vary.
Customer Review: 25 pounds ???
Summary: 4 Stars
My son was 9 pounds 11 ounces at birth. From that point on, the swing was GREAT. There were times the only way to put him to sleep was to put him in the swing. This was after white noise, nursing, walking, rocking, and several other tricks. Once Ryan was old enough to grasp things, he loved pulling on the whale. This caused the swing to stop. When he let go, the swing moved and he smiled....I guess this could be educational since it taught him cause and effect.
I had no problems with the swing until he reached 18 or 19 pounds and he liked to sit instead of lay. The swing seems to recline more and more as the baby gets heavier and I had to keep turing the speed dial higher and higher. For example, I put my son in the swing yesterday and had to have it on 8 and he weighs 21 pounds. I did not feel safe leaving him in the swing because he looked like his back was almost parallel(sp) to the floor.
Customer Review: Good Swing
Summary: 4 Stars
We had registered for this swing along with the papasan full size swing. We wanted something we could take to peoples houses with this smaller portable unit. We did not recieve the full size swing for our shower so we decided to just try the smaller one. Now that we have it home and put together the size is perfect for our smaller house. I think a full size swing would take up too much room. It is nice because you can pick the unit up and move it to another room even if the baby is in it. The swing mechanism is a little on the louder side (I have nothing to compare it to right now) but our daughter does'nt seem to mind it. The lights above capture her attention and I like that as she starts to grab at the toys she can make the music go by pulling on the dangling fish. I am not sure how well this will hold up with a larger child being so low to the ground and more compact. Overall we like the swing.Customer Review: Expensive swing - not much use for infant
Summary: 2 Stars
I received this swing as a baby gift in 2004 and used it for my daughter. She did not get much use from it then. I am now using it for my 6 month old and still do not use it too much. The swing is not appropriate for a newborn because the back of the seat does not recline enough which makes the baby's head come forward. As the baby gets bigger she can sit in it confortably but not comfortable enough to nap in. The other day a very scary situation occurred when she pulled herself to a sitting position on one of the swings hanging fish. She then fell over to the side and got her head wedged between the two bars of the swing(The one bar with the fish in it). If I was not in the room with her she would have fallen out of the swing! My baby is on the smaller side and if she can get herself into a position such as this one I would hate to see what could happen to a larger baby.Customer Review: SAFTEY HAZARD!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
The slowest setting on this swing is still too fast. My son wouldn't sit in it without being scared until he was about 3 months old. About 2 months later he became curious about the fish in the blue water and went to look at them closer and his head went between the two bars. HIS HEAD WAS BASHED BETWEEN THE TWO BARS! BAM BAM BAM!!! He's too young to realize, 'hey, everytime I move my head 5 inches to the right or left, it gets bashed between these two things holding me up so I better not do that.' I don't understand why this thing is on the market. He didn't need to be hospitalized, but that doesn't mean it's safe. I stopped using it, but didn't throw it away. My mom came over to babysit, she didn't know, and the same thing happened again. DO NOT BUY THIS SWING!!! TELL YOUR FRIENDS NOT TO BUY THIS SWING! AWEFUL, AWEFUL, TERRIBLE, SWING!!