Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Loads ! Durable, useful, bright, baby loves it, Mummy loves it ! |
| Disadvantages: |
Can't think of a single one ! |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Having ripped up the carpets to lay lovely wood flooring in lounge and dining room, we found ourselves with a growing baby wanting to roll about, sit and play and now start to crawl. The rug had been long since been retired to the garage due to the amount of baby sick etc (!) on it so I decided to buy a padded playmat.
I bought the Taf Toys padded playmat from Blooming Marvellous at £26.99 and it has been worth every penny! It is quite a size at 100 x 150cm and is just great for plonking baby on, surrounded by toys. It is a brightly coloured, quilted affair with a variety of built-in attractions in a few of the padded squares - a baby mirror, a bee with stand-up crinkly wings, a squeaky circle (which lots of adults have sat on!!) and a mouse head dangly rattle.
My daughter used to get bored in the playring, just desperate to roll about and this playmat is perfect for rolling as she could go quite a distance before she reached the edge and had to be plopped into the middle again! She is now
learning to crawl and this mat is much easier on the knees (and forehead!!!) than wood floor or burning carpet.
As an added bonus, it has large carry handles so you can scoop lots of toys it in and move them about.. frequently to the
garden in the current weather!
It says handwash 30 deg but I've thrown it in the machine about 5 times now and it is as good as new (don't have a tumble-drier so can't comment on that).
So many of my "baby friends" have commented on how lovely it is and a couple of them have even bought one!
