electric baby swings

DS was a terrible sleeper, and the first 6 mths were a really hard time . To spite all that I love my boy and can't wait to have #2 .
Even though I'm not due for ages, I'm already thinking about all the ways I can get #2 to sleep better than DS did.
I've been looking at electric swings and I'm wondering - are they all the sales pitch promise? are they safe? Can you really just put the new born in there and leave them to swing away?

I really wanted one but never got one, most people that I know that had one swear by them

Mine was a life saver, but in saying that G never actually went to sleep in it. I mainly used it at dinner time coz she used to time her crying for right when I had put a hot dinner on the table. I didn't have any support from my now ex partner and so if I hadn't had the swing it would have been cold dinner for me every night. It used to just settle her enough so I could eat and then deal with her.

We got one of TM when our boy was about 8ish weeks old. We used to rock him to sleep and it would take hours, so got him the swing which worked to start with. Then I found he was becoming more alert, and not as keen to stay in it. It was good to use to get a few things done during the day etc.
tbh, looking back we should have gotten him into a better sleep pattern/habit. Not using rocking or swinging etc to do it. However sanity is important and at the time you do the best you can.
I would recommend hiring or buying second hand.
(we also tried them out in the shop to see if he liked them first)
And yes they are safe the one we got had a 5 point harness and had variable speed settings.

I agree ours was a life saver too. Emily was a colicy baby. when she was little i did put a head support in it (like you have in capsules) but the harness kept her in.
We have the fisher and price take along one so it folds well and you can just pop it in the boot. Was from kmart for $160.

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Edited by Jennifer265726 - 16 December 2020 at 12:43pm