Okay so my 1st Ciao product review – so go easy on me!
When my son was a couple of months old I started looking round for a baby-gym.
I wanted something that had a little more than the seemingly standard pastel soft toys on and this seemed to fit the bill.
Quite a few places stocked it ... Read review
Okay so my 1st Ciao product review – so go easy on me!
When my son was a couple of months old I started looking round for a baby-gym.
I wanted something that had a little more than the seemingly standard pastel soft toys on and this seemed to fit the bill.
Quite a few places stocked it for £17.99 but then I saw it on offer for £12.99 in Woolworths and couldn’t resist.
However, I haven’t seen it for a while and ... ...the ‘next-stage’ multi-product.
The product is advertised as a 6-1 toy, however the main uses are as a baby-gym and a walker – the other uses are just a bit of a gimmick really.
On opening the box the baby-gym was self-assembly, but this doesn’t require any special tools and is very straightforward – taking only a few minutes.
As a baby-gym it is a very good toy – it has three hanging toys – a rattle, ... more
Okay so my 1st Ciao product review – so go easy on me!
When my son was a couple of months old I started looking round for a baby-gym. I wanted something that had a little more than the seemingly standard pastel soft toys on and this seemed to fit the bill. Quite a few places stocked it for £17.99 but then I saw it on offer for £12.99 in Woolworths and couldn’t resist. However, I haven’t seen it for a while and am unsure if it has been discontinued in favour of the ‘next-stage’ multi-product.
The product is advertised as a 6-1 toy, however the main uses are as a baby-gym and a walker – the other uses are just a bit of a gimmick really.
On opening the box the baby-gym was self-assembly, but this doesn’t require any special tools and is very straightforward – taking only a few minutes.
As a baby-gym it is a very good toy – it has three hanging toys – a rattle, a mirror and a clicky ‘book’ – and on the frame itself there is a spinning ball on one side and a glittery spinning butterfly on the other. The toys are attached with joining loops so you can also hang your own small toys from it. The only ‘con’ as a baby gym was that there weren’t enough loops to make the toys low enough for a very small baby – however this can be rectified by buying extra loops (Mothercare for example), or even using ribbon. In addition to using the gym for my son while lying on the floor I also used while he was in his bouncy chair – this gave him a slightly different angle on the toys. The height of the gym enabled me to do this – a factor which other gyms may not have.
The other main use of the toy is as a walker. Again it was extremely quick and easy to convert the toy from a gym to a walker – in fact during the intermediate stage we converted it back and forth a number of times a day! This is a very sturdy walker, and although it has wheels there is no real danger of it ‘scooting’ away from under the child. The walker has a tray on the front with can either be used with the activity tray (bit of a grand description for what it is) filled with the toys from the baby-gym or left empty to carry other things in. My son first ‘walked’ with it at 9 months (have just looked back at the video to confirm this age ) and continued using it as a walker even after he started walking unaided. The makers claim that the toy would be used until 2 years – this may be the case with a late walker but after about 15 months my son had no real interest in it – I had hoped that he would use it to put thing in the little tray – but he wasn’t interested in this – however others maybe.
I wasn’t that impressed with the other claimed uses of the toy, shapesorter, activity tray, (can’t remember the other two – shows that they aren’t really ‘real’) – I think they are a bit gimiky and added in order to boost the ‘uses’ i.e. the 6-1 claim. Regardless of this it certainly does the job for the two main uses.
I noted the age group at 0-12 months, but in fairness I think it is more like 2 – 15 months.
Overall, The toy had quite a long life (a year is a huge time in the life of a baby of this age), was very robust and well used by my son. Given the price is it excellent value for money – I would definitely recommend it.
Advantages: It is six toys in one, as it grows with your child. Disadvantages: Another toy that takes up space. Why are the good toys big? Not that I'm saying this is overbig, but is big enough.
When I went on my maternity leave from work, this is what they bought me, well not for me personally, but for my new baby.
I was really pleased with this because as the child grows then so does the toy, it converts to other things. It is 6 toys in 1.
It was very easy to put together, and comes with a tray, three different activities, a rattle, a mirror and also a book that makes alot of noise when the plastic pages are flipped over, another piece ... ...to fit the activities into and also the links that you attach the activities to the overhead bar, double as different shapes for the shape sorter that is in the base of the tray.
You start off with unit as an activity bar which is placed over the baby, with the activities attached to the overhead bar via the different shaped and coloured links. It is very sturdy and very stable.
As the baby gets abit older, around 5 months, then these activities ...
Xyanthe 10.04.2001
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