Ladies and gents, boys and girls….get ready…wait for it…wait
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Welcome to the GooGoo Review…where we talk and review all
things baby!
This has been a long time coming, and I am so excited to finally launch this section of my blog. During our TTC journey I was introduced to (and completely swallowed up by) the world of endless internet research on every single “what if,” “how come,” “what about,” “best this,” “worst that,” …that anyone could ever possibly think of. By the time I actually got pregnant I was so worn out from all the googling that I could not bring myself to do the obligatory baby registry product
The few products I actually took the time out of my busy
schedule to review (HA!, I laugh at the thought of my old schedule being busy
now) didn’t ever seem to live up to what I had read. I am convinced that at
least half of the reviews on the store/company websites are just written by moonlighting
AT&T call center employees halfway across the globe that have never really used a Baby Brezza.. So I decided to start my own space for real
moms..friends, family members, fellow bloggers…to review and discuss our
must-haves, must NOTs and more. We will see where it goes. First up is a hands
down MUST-have and still one of our/Trent’s very favorite toys to date:
ITEM OF THE WEEK
Seriously..they could have come up with a shorter better
name, but I won’t hold it against them. Fisher-Price absolutely outdid
themselves with this product.
Price: $41.99 (Target online)
What It Is: This
falls in the play-gym, play mat category, but it sets itself apart by including
a
piano
at the foot.
The Story: We had
your regular old play-gym/mat that we registered for but quickly realized
that a 6 week old baby cannot do
much other than…lie there. The adorbs jingling zebra and flashing lion did much
more to annoy the dog than stimulate Trent, and he wasn’t even close to being
able to reach for or grab anything yet. So play-gym time was basically us
shaking all sorts of jungle animals in his face, staring at him (while he was
staring into space), googling whether there was something wrong with him because
he wasn’t following said jungle animals..and then more staring. We desperately
wanted him to DO something, but he just wasn’t there yet. Then on a hazy,
sleep-deprived trip to Target we stumbled across this. Literally stumbled…like
I said..sleep-deprived, and it was on the bottom shelf. It was like fate or
something. We immediately added it to his Santa Grandma Christmas list.
If we had known what a hit it would be, and if our cart wasn’t already full of
frozen meals, Lanolin by the gallon, K-cups and beer, we would have bought it
right then and there.
He got it on Christmas Day, and so
at two months he started using it. We were amazed at the IMMEDIATE difference
during his play time. Because he still wasn’t coordinated enough to grab/reach
for things, he was in the stage of kicking and moving his legs. Once he had the
piano as something to actually kick and give a bit of resistance, he was unstoppable.
What had previously been just minutes of play time before he got bored and
frustrated turned into a minimum of 30 minute piano sessions and sometimes went
on for the two hours between feedings. He kicked and kicked…and kicked some
more. Each key plays a different tone followed by a short tune. I went to bed every
night and woke up every day (still do) with those four tunes in my head, but it
is well worth it. He has SUCH strong legs now, and we really put it down to all
the time he spent on the piano in those early days.
The toy arch can be moved to the
floor for tummy time when they are ready, and the mirror props up during tummy
time too which was one of the only things that got Trent’s attention early on.
And now that he can sit up better on his own, we have turned the piano parallel
to the floor and sit with him while he plays it with his hands, but he still
plays it with his feet almost every day.
Pros: -
GREAT source of entertainment/exercise
for a younger baby that cannot do
much on a regular play gym
- Transitions to a wide age range
- Easy to move and store (we took it to
Grandma’s often)
Cons: - The bases that hold the toy arch are a bit
close together, making the mat fairly
narrow, and they are pretty hard
plastic. Once he started learning to roll over we
padded
them a little bit to keep him from knocking his head into one during a roll.
OVERALL RATING : 5/5
Have you used this product? Comment below and let us know
what you think! Or do you have an idea/request for a future GooGoo Review item
of the week? Let us know by comment or email!
Stay tuned for more product reviews and a new rating system
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