Customer Reviews

Graco Lovin' Hug Open Top Swing with Vibration, Betsey

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Length:: 4:22 Mins

After listening to several parents you learn that babies either love or hate swings. I am happy to say that our little girl "Loves" this swing! In terms of features I am not of anything that I would add - it seems to have everything that you would want!

Things we like

- 6 speed/heights for the automatic swing - the higher levels seem to be ideal for getting out baby to sleep while the lower settings help keep her asleep.
- Various sounds - nature sounds (which admittedly are not the greatest), the "heartbeat" sound, and our favorite a nice selection of classical music
- Seat has two vibration settings
- Nice little mobile for small eyes to stare at!
- The seat has multiple settings for reclining
- Nice weight rating so you can use thing for quite awhile.
- Built in timer
- Volume control for all music/sound features

Areas for improvement -

- Not the easiest thing to put together. In fact, ours still needs a bit of a brush-up to get perfect.
- Ideally, it would come with built in rechargeable batteries - granted that would add to the cost - however be prepared to go through batteries!
- Makes a bit of a clicking sound - not a big deal for us, but I am sure some people would find it annoying.

Final Verdict - I was tempted to take off a 1/2 star for assembly, but as a whole we are very satisfied!

5 Stars!

My son had a love hate relationship with this swing. It depended on the month and time of day, I guess. Sometimes, it was a great way to get him to fall asleep or a quick place to secure him when I needed two hands free. It was used moderately--not $100+ worth.

I enjoyed the classical music, but the other sounds were more like white noise than their description. The adults could not tolerate them.

The mobile has nothing for a child. From the child's view is just the underside of turtles (a circle with nubs) in hard to distinguish pastel colors. In fact, my son stared at the bright warning label on the inside of the stand longer in one sitting than he ever looked at the mobile over the lifetime of the swing.

I HATED the tray. It was a useless obstacle in reaching my non-mobile infant (the harness seemed more than sufficient for safety). By the time my child was old enough to use the tray, he didn't use the swing.

Overall, the swing worked as it should and we didn't have issues with its operation. The timer was a nice feature that we rarely used. It always remained in its lowest position, despite having other more upright settings.

I received this swing as a gift. After putting it together, I realized that the tray was entirely in the way and was totally unnecessary for my 2-week old daughter so removed the piece. I'd recommend not placing the tray onto the swing until you actually need it, otherwise it's rather difficult to place the baby in or take out of the swing. The only reason I don't give a 5-star for the product because I think it's way too big for a newborn or little baby. It does take me a few minutes to adjust everything around her and if she's already crying, it's hard to calm her in the swing. I can however see how a larger baby can enjoy the swing more, hope to see what happens when my daughter gets bigger.

Pro's: large selection of music; nice multi-incline of seat; lots of swing speeds with timer feature

Con's: Tray extremely difficult to open; nature sounds are terrible (you can't even tell they're naturistic);
mobile is pretty useless (too high and too small);
shoulder harness/strap TOO SHORT - my daughter is 7 mos
old and ~18 lbs and the shoulder strap is already too short. I contacted
Graco and they sent me a replacement seat with the exact same shoulder
straps (i.e TOO short). If your baby is over 17 lbs and 26" long, then
he/she will barely be able to be strapped in using the shoulder straps.
Currently trying to get them to send me LONGER shoulder straps.

Bought a different swing....my 2 month old hated it. Got this one, she loves it...she swings for hours and it's very quite

I recieved this swing at my baby shower for my first. I loved it. It put together fine and We used it daily. When my son was about 20 pounds I decided to put him in his swing while I did something, and noticed the swing part wasn't working. I didn't really worry cause I figured the batterties were dying or he just weighed to much, so I put it into storage.

I am expecting my second baby now, and I took the swing out and bought new batteries for it. I decided to get it running seeing as I am due in 4 weeks. Well, much to my suprise the swing part is broken. The music works fine, but I found that the weight of just the swing itself is to much for the motor to handle and makes a LOUD clunking sound like it's dying. When I take the swing part off it continues to make the clunking sound but the part where you connect the actual swing to the base will swing. So needless to say, I need a new swing for baby #2.

We got this swing as a gift. As a newborn my daughter freaked out in it, but around 5 months old started to like it. Now I can put her in it when she doesn't want to settle down for a nap and she falls asleep in it. The straps are a little tricky because they're 5 pieces that you have to clip together, unlike a car seat where there are only 3.

Although it's rated to 30 pounds, height is really a limiting factor. My baby is only 6 months old and already the shoulder straps are really pulling to get them latched in, and she's only 17 pounds. I started just doing the waist belt, but have to keep a very close eye to make sure she doesn't flip out if she starts to squirm. They need to make the shoulder straps longer or else add additional holes to loop them through for a taller child.

This is a really useful model - especially the ability to recline the seat, it has a vibration mode, and it has pillow inserts so that even newborn heads don't roll around. The only reason not to give it 5 stars, is like all Graco Open Top models for some reason the tray is open underneath so little feet push against the inner lip of the tray and get scratched with no socks or caught. I wish Graco would add a peice to close off/fill in the underneath of the tray.

this swing has alot of sounds, but the nature ones dont even sound good at all. the front tray is very very hard to get up. my daughter has fallen asleep in it only a couple times. the pattern is cute.

We got the swing when our baby was 3 weeks old and she loves it. The built-in head support works well and the swing appears to be very comfortable. The only problem we have had is with the mobile. It appears the mobile is operated by the motion of the swing causing the base of the mobile to strike the body of the swing, this makes the mobile go around. The problem with this is that it has made the mobile fall a couple of times. The arm holding the mobile doesn't snap into its base, it only slides in, so unless it is seated extremely firmly it has a tendency to work its way loose. Other than that the swing works great.Graco Lovin Hug Easy Entry Open Top Swing Bancroft