My sister has bought a baby swing for her new arrival & is unsure whether she will still need to buy a baby bouncer/rocker. What do you think?

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I never had a baby swing for mine but had lots of use out of the baby bouncer, so I am unsure what to advise. Do you think a baby bouncer will be worth buying as well as a baby swing or should she save her money?

I have both and both my DD and now my DS loves them. The bouncer lays flatter for daytime naps and the swing calms down a fractious baby IME. My bouncer was £12 from Mothercare and my swing a cheap Fisher price one from e-bay. Both were used when first weaning my DD as well (obviously not whilst swinging )

HTH

I used a bouncer for both lo's and they both used to go to sleep in it. Neither of them liked the swing so it was a waste of money for us.

Thanks. Maybe she will be best waiting until the baby is born then. She has heard the baby swings are lifesavers but I guess it depends on the baby though.

What sort of swing is it?
She might just have to wait til baby gets here. I bought a bouncer chair and ds2 hates it! so had to get ds1's old skanky 3rd hand one back out.

If it's one that is off the floor, she may not feel 100% comfortable leaving the room when lo is in it iyswim.
I'd say, don't buy anything yet, see how baby is in it, and how she feels about it after birth.

It is a baby dan musical swing.

I had a bouncer which DD loathed.
Never had a swing.
Most babies are happy on a rug on the floor, no? I think there are way more useful things to spend the cash on.

Do you have a link?
I prob would wait til after baby is here though, then she'd have a better idea.
My ds2 was 7lbs 13oz at birth and looked far too small for his bouncer, so I left him in his moses basket for the first few weeks.

I have both and DS doesnt really bother with swing. bounder fab though as it vibrates and plays soothing music, reclines to almost flat and used the sitting setting for beginning to wean x

Agree with other posts. Wait! DS absolutely hated the graco swing my mother brought over. On the other hand he totally loved his bouncer right from day 1 until he could practically bounce himself out of it so we had to garage it...

Our DS had reflux and would only go upright in the bouncer, which made him slump and he'd start howling again...we got a swing as a present and it was a lifesaver, calmed him right down and he even fell asleep in it. We started to use the bouncer a bit more when he was 2/3 months but he flipped out of it at 6 months, so I'm very glad we got a cheap one. I think if she's got room for both it's worth getting scond hand, as you can always sell them on.