Customer Reviews

SnugGlider Infant Car Seat Swing Frame

5 star:		(32)
4 star:		(28)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(11)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

What a great product! I wish they would have come out with it back when my first son was a baby! Our current baby is eight months old, and he is still in his Graco Infant SafeSeat (he has several more months' worth of room to go in it). The SafeSeat fits beautifully in this swing frame. Whenever I get home and my son is asleep in the car seat, I just pop the seat into this frame and turn it on, and he will go right back to sleep and stay asleep for a long time. Or if he is napping in the swing and I need to go out to run an errand, he stays asleep because I don't have to move him out of the swing into a car seat. Wonderful!

This is the only swing we have, and I find that it is the only one we need. As a plus, the swing frame folds up compactly and travels very well. The only complaints I have are: 1.) The swing motor is a little loud, and 2.) I have to run the swing on the highest speed to keep it swinging, since my son is getting a bit heavy. But overall, this is a brilliant and much-needed baby item!

We bought this because we saw it as a great way to eliminate 1 piece of baby clutter by combining the baby swing with car seat storage. It is a fantastic product that makes my life easier and is well worth the money. When I know I need to do errands and my daughter is due for a nap, I put her to sleep in the car seat in the swing and then we're good to go whenever. So far, she is young enough to stay sleeping when we come home but I can see where it would help later on to keep her sleeping after she falls asleep in the car.

Like the other reviews, my minor complaints are that the controls for the sound and vibrations are very poorly located where you can't see them to operate them. I don't mind this at all because frankly, I find the Graco music boxes (on this swing and our pack-n-play) kind of creepy and I don't use them. The music doesn't have a nice "tinkly" sound like many baby music boxes and instead reminds me a little bit of a "twangy" organ sound like in a creepy movie. The motor is rather noisy but, hey, it doesn't bother my baby and the repetitive clicking sound might even sound something like a heartbeat to her. I think the motor is able to move such a heavy combination of baby and car seat by having a *very* smoothly gliding swing mechanism. I notice that if I put any pressure at all on the swing (like pushing in a pacifier), it can't swing against it. With this type of mechanism, I expect it to last a long time and it really don't go through batteries as fast as I feared it would.

Overall, I highly recommend this product. I only took off 1 star because I feel like the controls could be easily relocated by the manufacturer and because I really dislike that music.

While pregnant with our second son, I was on a mission to find myself a small, lightweight swing that could easily be carried up and down our stars with my bad back and that didn't take up a whole lot of space in our house. With our first son, we had your standard bulky swing and I absolutely hated it because it was just too darn big a bulky. So, while pregnant with our new little one I actually found a small Fisherprice swing that I wanted but when I sent my husband out go buy it, the store didn't have it so he bought this one instead. Boy am I glad he did. This swing has all the features that your standard swing has (vibration setting, music, swooshing water sound, adjustible speed) with the added benefit of holding your infant car seat so you can just carry your baby from the car to this swing. Also, this swing travels very well so you can fold it up and take it to grandma's or where ever. My one concern before using it was that the motor wouldn't be powerful enough to swing a heavy car seat with a baby in it but it actually does very well.

Our son loves this and I love it. This is my new favorite baby item in our house.

This is our first baby and I researched everything we even considered buying. I tend to take negative reviews with a grain of salt and was excited about this product. We just received this swing frame as a gift and I put it together right away and tried it out. We have a Graco Snugride carseat and my 7 week old baby is 11 lbs. This product folds up well for travel, which is one of the main reasons we registered for it. The vibration (2 settings) and music/nature sounds work well. You can adjust the speed which is nice. The problem with it is the motor simply cannot keep up. You can hear and see the problem. The motor works hard to keep up and the swing would go faster at times then slow way down - which startled my sleeping baby. It actually kept a more consistent pace before I put the batteries in and just pushed the seat with my son in it. If Graco put a more appropriate sized motor in it, I would definitely recommend this product. Until then, mine is getting returned.

I love the portability of this swing. It comes apart very easily and I was able to fit the main part the car seat sits on in my suitcase without trouble.

One reason I did not give this swing 5 stars was because of the control switches. They are in an inconvenient spot--under where the car seat edge overhangs. Also, I feel that the controls should have been buttons rather than dials/switches. Even though they go off automatically after half an hour, they remain in the ON position. If you want to restart one function the other automatically restarts too, which can be a pain in the butt.

The second reason being that this frame fits the SnugRide and the bigger SafeSeat. The Snugride can be a little wobbly on it since there is extra room. While that is annoying and a bit disconcerting, it's not really a major problem.

We puchased this for our third baby and it has been awsome. Being the third, she spends quite a bit of time getting siblings around and it's great to not worry about waking her to put her in the car seat. If I know we're going to be leaving soon, I just buckle her in and grab her on our way out. It's also great if she falls asleep right as we're getting home, we put her in the swing and she'll finish taking a full nap. It took a few times to get the swing control right, but as long as blankets and things are out of the way, it's not a problem. The clicking from the swinging motion seems to be just the right amount of white noise amongst the chaos of her 2 brothers. I would definitely recommend this to anyone, especially if this is a second, third (etc.) baby.

Some pros are:

You can plop the baby in the carseat right into it when you enter the house--gives you some time to remove your coat before having to unstrap the child.

It creates its own storage space for the car seat itself when you are not using it (I like having a "right place" for my things.)

As another reviewer said, the mechanism is smooth and well-balanced enough to use gravity to swing for a while if you push it.

Some cons (or noteworthy elements) are:

The vibration mechanism takes AAA batteries installed at the bottom of the swinging part.

The swinging mechanism takes C batteries installed at the top of the swing arms.

I think the vibration is not as intense as the other vibrating products that use only a peice of fabric to hold the baby--it's simply not possible to shake a heavy seat that strongly with batteries. But it seems to please my 9 week old son and put him to sleep. He weighs 12 lbs.

People obviously have babies with different preferences, so for those who disliked the swing system, my experience with my infant son was vastly better. The complaints that it is too low to the ground -- DUH it's in the PICTURE -- are silly, because that's precisely WHY I like it -- it's easy to simply drop the car seat into the latch. And, it latches VERY easily, and you can tell immediately if it's in wrong so no worries about your wee one tipping off the base. I agree with the others who commented that, while making a sort of mechanical "clicking" sound, it is quiet and gentle, and actually puts MY baby to sleep. The selections for vibrations and songs (we love the ocean sounds) is soothing, and turns off automatically, which is convenient. As for the baby sitting in the car seat more -- we just bought one of the infant fleece bags, so it's just as comfortable as a "regular" swing seat.

Lastly, to address the complaints that the swing does not move slow enough: my son hates when it's low anyway. I have not had to replace the batteries ONCE and I have been using it several times per week for four months. If you've got a small place, this is the swing for you. I hope mine lasts for the next.

I don't know what we'd do without this swing! We have a full sized swing, and our son prefers to nap in the swing over lying down, so this makes a nice portable alternative. We've brought it on picnics, when we go away, and even to a wedding reception, and it lets him nap. It's also good for when we come home and he's fallen asleep in the car - we just bring him inside in the carseat and snap him in the swing, and he'll keep sleeping. I wouldn't be without this!!

While this is a nice idea for swings, it ultimately didn't work out all that well for us. It is very portable and takes up very little space, but it is so low to the ground that it can be a bit tricky getting baby in and out of the contraption. It's low height also makes it difficult to see whether or not you have the latches lined up and can irritate a bad back. A frame with adjustable heights would have made more sense. Also the audible click when you set the carseat in the frame is loud enough to wake up a sleeping baby. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Also the speed settings are on a dial that seems to only have two speeds: Way too fast or not fast enough. Your only choices are a speed that is so fast that the carseat thumps back and forth or so slow that the swing eventually winds down and stops. If you do manage to find just the right speed, there are no markings on the dial so good luck finding it again.
The small profile and portability just didn't outweigh the other inconveniences of this swing for us.