Fisher Price Ocean Wonders Aquarium Cradle Swing

...decided to buy him the Fisher Price Aquarium Cradle Swing. We tried it one weak ago at one of our friend’s house and my son fall asleep in 5 minutes in it.


¤¤¤ Price ¤¤¤

I found a not too cheap shop locally, so I paid 120 pounds for it, but it is available under the name of Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Aquarium Cradle Swing on amazon.co.uk for 79.99 pounds. You can find cheap used ones on eBay.


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...good for babies up to 9 kg (20 lbs), but in the manual they say the baby shouldn’t be able to sit up on its own. I don’t really understand why, because the swing has safety belt we always used and if you want extra security just put on the tray. It is so difficult to take it down, that your baby won’t be able to remove it. I mean it is easy to put it on and remove it, but you need power to get it down. We used for my elder son from 3 months old till ... more

As we received money from our friends and relatives for my elder son’s baptism, we decided to buy him the Fisher Price Aquarium Cradle Swing. We tried it one weak ago at one of our friend’s house and my son fall asleep in 5 minutes in it.

¤¤¤ Price ¤¤¤

I found a not too cheap shop locally, so I paid 120 pounds for it, but it is available under the name of Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Aquarium Cradle Swing on amazon.co.uk for 79.99 pounds. You can find cheap used ones on eBay.

¤¤¤ Whom it is recommended? ¤¤¤

It is good for babies up to 9 kg (20 lbs), but in the manual they say the baby shouldn’t be able to sit up on its own. I don’t really understand why, because the swing has safety belt we always used and if you want extra security just put on the tray. It is so difficult to take it down, that your baby won’t be able to remove it. I mean it is easy to put it on and remove it, but you need power to get it down. We used for my elder son from 3 months old till 15 months old. He could walk by that time, but when we put him in the swing, he was so amazed that he didn’t want to come out of it. During this one year we used it so frequently that he spent weeks in it if I add the times. My younger son reached the 9 kg weight too quickly, so we used only 6 months in his case. The swing was still in such good condition that I sold to a mummy to be. I hope they will enjoy it too.

¤¤¤ Battery ¤¤¤

I would like to highlight the power supply of the cradle because if you buy 4D batteries all the time it runs out you will pay 2-3 times the price of the cradle swing. We had a quite good solution so I would like to share it with you. We bought 4 normal AA rechargeable batteries and four D size shells. As I cannot enclose a picture I insert a link: http://www.amazon.com/Lenmar-Adapter-Size-Shell-Battery/dp/B0008D5FRW
So we put the batteries in this shell and they worked as they were D size batteries. In USA they sell this swing wired.

¤¤¤ Package and manual ¤¤¤

The new one is well packed in a box and needs assemble. It has a really good manual, as I bought it and brought it home I started to assemble myself. It took me about half an hour but I made it. The manual has really good pictures that help you. The cradle is quite heavy 12 kilograms and requires a large space (I cannot measure now because I have sold already but it was about 1,5 metres wide). It’s 28"L x 34"W x 42"H according to its manual.

¤¤¤ Features ¤¤¤

First of all the seat: it is a hard plastic seat covered with an easily removable, washing machine proof cover. It is medium blue and there are fish pictures on it. The padded cover has a built-in infant head support. The seat has two positions, one of them is halfway seated the other almost lying. When you assemble the swing you can try how easily can be changed from one position to the other.

The tray is a simple white tray and has a wave shape plastic wire above it with 3 different coloured fishes on it. My son played with them a lot and I could place other toys on the tray while I was feeding him. It is an extra security thing if you are afraid that your baby falls out.

Swinging directions: it can swing from side to side or from front to back. You can change the direction by pushing a button on the globe panel and turning the seat easily. Swinging from front to back requires more space. My elder son loved swinging from side to side, the younger one from front to back.

Control panel: there are four buttons on it, it is easy to manage whatever you want. The large button can be turned around, the first position if off, then only the lights, sound, and the mobile with fishes work, then the 6 speeds one by one. The other buttons can be pushed/turned from side to side. One of them was the volume control, the other for the music and the last one for the lights and the fishes turn around. There were 4 options for the music, my elder sons favourite was the music which lasts for 7 minutes and it is a mix of different nursery songs. I recognised only the Twinkle, twinkle little star, but there are 7 more played one after the other. The music has 3 other options: rain, ocean and spring. My younger son loved to listen to the ocean’s sound. The globe can be lighted and the red, yellow, green and blue lights are flashing slowly, it is calming. The control button makes possible to switch off the light, have the light and the mobile with fishes go around together, or just the fishes go around. The music works independently. The volume control is as usual, so you can listen to the music on a normal volume down to quiet.

¤¤¤ To sum up ¤¤¤

It was our best investment. After what we experimented with this swing, I would pay 1,000 pounds for it. It is really brilliant. We had a lot of sleepless nights before we bought it. It served well when my son was teething, had a flue or colic. After 7 minutes the music and the lights turn off, only the swinging function works till the batteries hold. When we used all the functions the super lasting, longlife, blabla D sized batteries lasted for a week. Can you imagine the price of batteries if we don’t change to rechargeable AA size batteries? So in the future we will use only AA batteries with the shell I recommended under Batteries title of my review. If you have any questions in connection with this swing, just drop me a comment or a message.
 

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