Yes, it’s another product review. I just honestly have been so impressed by this bouncer that I had to share. 
Someday I’m going to write an entry about pacifiers and breastfeeding, too, and then I think I’ll be all product-ed out.
Fisher Price makes “rockers” that convert from a stationary bouncer to a sort of rocking chair for toddlers. This is what I asked for, and received, at the baby shower for our first child, and I’ve been very happy with it–it has made it through three children (often more than one at once) with aplomb. It’s still going strong. I had another bouncer, a much cheaper second-hand item, that I kept on the other floor, though, and it was biting the dust.
I should perhaps add here that I’m not a fan of swings. A baby that’s happy in a bouncer will be equally happy on a pile of blankets at someone else’s house, or in a carseat; a baby that’s happy in a swing will be happy in a swing. That’s my experience, anyway, and so this time around we aimed our two swings at the dumpster and decided to invest in a second bouncer instead.
So I ordered it, sight unseen, and very excitedly pulled it out of the box and put it together. We love it. Baby and I, I mean. What you can’t really tell from the picture is that it’s very broad. It doesn’t seem to take up more floorspace than the other bouncers I’ve used, but it’s a lot more bed-like and supportive. It has a pretty good range of tilt to the seat, too. It’s also a lot more sturdy than I expected it to be, and the legs work well. You can definitely drag it across the floor without the legs folding under, but it also has enough grippiness that it stays still when one of the girls knocks into it. The toy bar folding away is every bit as convenient as I hoped it would be, and honestly I’m kind of glad that it doesn’t make a lot of noise like most bouncer bars! (It doesn’t make any noise at all, in fact.) The toy creatures are a little frightening–child the eldest asked why the bugs had so many eyes–but bright and colorful and positioned at a good height. The whole thing is a little brighter than it looks in the pictures, honestly, which is one of the few negatives since I was hoping it would blend with our décor. Also not obvious from the pictures is that the bouncer is quite low to the floor, much more than the other bouncer-rocker. This too is a good thing with toddlers around the house: it would be really hard for them to purposefully or accidentally knock the bouncer over, but it’s still high enough and sturdy enough that they’re unlikely to fall into the bouncer the way they do with a regular, close-to-the-floor bouncer. (Our first daughter occasionally flipped over her sister’s bouncer–happily I caught it and no damage was ever done to said sister–it was scary, though!)
In short, this is the perfect bouncer to have around when you have two under two, or three under three.
