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Activity arch + info on the Galt Playnest please

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Flangelina · 03/04/2007 19:58

My 3 month old son loves nothing more than to lie on his changing mat and kick. So I am thinking of buying an activity arch which can just sit over the top of it. My question is:
(1) Can anyone recommend a good FREE-STANDING activity arch; and
(2) If you have a Galt Playnest, can the activity arch stand up on its own? If it can, I would be tempted to buy one so that he can progress to the "nest" once he can sit up.

Thanks.

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Califrau · 03/04/2007 20:02

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Marina · 03/04/2007 20:13

The arch won't stand securely on its own unless secured in the playnest (unless the design has been changed since we had ours in 2001).
The playnest has been a huge success for us as well, just as it is - we had the arches and it nearly drove me to tears assembling them so we hardly used them. Waste of money IMO.
All my friends had those folding playmat/arch combos by, I think, Gymini, and these seemed compact and to do the job well.

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Flangelina · 03/04/2007 21:37

Thanks very much - v useful. So Marina, you like the playnest, but not the arches, yes?

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Flangelina · 03/04/2007 21:41

Can I also ask, would the playnest suit a baby as young as 12 weeks? The product description says "from birth" but I can't see how a baby could be in it other than sitting up.

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zephyrcat · 03/04/2007 21:41

I have the playnest too which was ok for a couple of months but the arch is an absolute nightmare!!! You have to fix it back together everyt 5 minutes so I took it off in the first couple of days and never put it back.

The nest was good but dd learnt to fling herself out of it by 4 months!!

EllieKthePA · 03/04/2007 21:48

i loved the nest and it's designed so that a newborn can go in it, it's big enough for them to lay in the middle.

Marina · 03/04/2007 22:46

Agree with EllieK, you lay the tiny one in the middle.
Even though both mine could fling themselves out of it quite quickly, it was used for ages afterwards as a den/pretend dinghy etc. Very good lasting play value. And our inner tube was as tough as a rhino's hide (but ours dates from 1999 so is an old model)

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Flangelina · 04/04/2007 20:03

Thanks everyone.

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Ceebee74 · 04/04/2007 20:06

Can I just add that I saw it on Baby Whisperer and they were using it with a newborn (although it was a BIG newborn!). Mine is borrowed off a friend and I thought you had to wait until the baby was sitting up but you didn't - so by the time I got it out, Ds just started flinging himself out of it - still loves to bounce himself off the sides though

Just a word of caution - it is a nightmare to get the cover off and wash it cos you have to pretty much deflate it and then inflate it again - DS is a very sicky baby so I have to do it quite often (good for the arm muscles though to pump it back up again! )

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Flangelina · 05/04/2007 12:06

OK that's useful, thanks.

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Kelly1978 · 05/04/2007 12:09

I must be in the minority, but my ds1 hated his, and I ended up giving it away. Not really sure why.

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