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Baby Bouncers / Baby Bean Bags!
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Hi all
Hope you don't mind a gate crasher!
We are just putting together the list of 'big' things we still need to buy (i.e. monitor, steriliser etc.) and I am a bit dubious about spending money on a baby bouncer / baby bean-bag if they will only be used up until 6 months.
Did anyone NOT buy one of these and then regret it? If you did buy one, do your babies get a lot of use out of them? Any alternatives you can recommend??? Do we need both or can it be one or the other???
I love the baby bean-bags (blaming PTB for that as Lily looks SO cosy in hers!!!) but both items are a lot of money for only 6 ish months use. (or am I being tight???!!!)
Thanks for any comments!
Joo xxx
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Hope you don't mind a gate crasher!
We are just putting together the list of 'big' things we still need to buy (i.e. monitor, steriliser etc.) and I am a bit dubious about spending money on a baby bouncer / baby bean-bag if they will only be used up until 6 months.
Did anyone NOT buy one of these and then regret it? If you did buy one, do your babies get a lot of use out of them? Any alternatives you can recommend??? Do we need both or can it be one or the other???
I love the baby bean-bags (blaming PTB for that as Lily looks SO cosy in hers!!!) but both items are a lot of money for only 6 ish months use. (or am I being tight???!!!)
Thanks for any comments!
Joo xxx
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They are so useful to be able to pop baby in while you do stuff, let them sit up a bit and see you while you do stuff, feed them in, somewhere to pop them at naptime etc etc.
You don't have to spend a fortune - the bog standard ones are about ??20 and we bought the yellow mothercare one which vibrates for about ??25 - was well impressed as the battery lasted all 6 or 7 months we used it for even though I regularly left it on overnight!
Beanbag -errr didn't know you could get them !!
Would imagine you only need one or the other as it is just to have somewhere afe to put lo so you can do things. Dunno if bouncer might be better longer as they are a little bit more upright and as some one else said you cna use it when you start to wean!
HTH and good luck!
I havent heard of those bean bags but after googling they do look very comfy. However i dont think they would last as long as a bouncer. My baby is 10 weeks old and she hates being laid flat when im not right next to her. She is so nosey and if i pop her down to do something she wants to be upright and watching me.
the main one we used was the fisher price kick and play thing with a vibrate option on...brill!! kept cam amused for ages!
xx
Samantha
13weeks
We couldn't have got by without ours. He was in it every day. In fact he still sits in it now even though he's way too big for it!
As for the bean bag, we got a Doomoo one which are quite expensive for what they are and tbh was pretty much a waste of money as he hated sitting on it as a tiny baby but does tend to use it a bit now (now 15 months).
Idon't have a proper baby bean bag but i do have a normal beanbag that we lay her in when she's asleep and she'll happily lay for a while when she's woke up too.
Both are good to me
Lisaxxx
Bouncer it is then...!!!
Julie xxx
24w today!