Too young for baby swing?

Gold Member Joined: Jan 03 2011 Posts: 1503

At what age did you put your baby in a swing? Is three weeks too early to start?

Platinum Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 5894

What kind of swing? If you mean the newborn kind, with the seat shaped like a bouncer seat, I don't think it's ever too early. if you already own the swing, check the user guide that came with it.

Executive Member Joined: Mar 17 2011 Posts: 390

my baby was in a baby swing from I wud say day 3 or so:) not for long periods of time but when I needed to do something. we had a graco swing that reclines and basically has a similar recline to a car seat.

Gold Member Joined: Nov 27 2008 Posts: 1635

My babies were also in swings from the day they came home from the hospital. Especially with the newer style swings where the seat is an oval like this one. I have one similar to this and there's no way I would've survived the first 3 months without it!

http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-P.....amp;sr=8-3

Platinum Member Joined: Apr 12 2010 Posts: 5799

My baby was in a swing since we bought it at around 2months old. He loves it and it has different positions so now we pushed the seat up a bit.
as long as its almost 100% reclining they can be in it from day 1...swings are amazing things that baby can grow in Smile

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Posted: Sun, Sep 18 2011, 7:04 pm Post subject: re: Too young for baby swing?

The one we have currently is like the link above and we used that from a few days old. With our older kids the one we had was more upright and we didn't use it until they were a little stronger, a couple of months for our eldest, about 4-6 weeks for our 2nd who was unusually strong.
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Posted: Sun, Sep 18 2011, 7:09 pm Post subject:

I put them at one week old already-I use the travel baby swing.
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Executive Member Joined: Aug 05 2011 Posts: 376

I have the fisher price cradle n swing and I put my baby in it, at about 2 weeks. It reclines and is very comfortable looking. I did not actually turn the swing on until she was a few months, I just let her sit in it and I put the music mobile on.