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Leigh 03:58 PM 04-11-2019
Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

Battery operated swings
Vibrating chairs
Bouncy seats
Bumbo chairs
Jump-a-roos
Rock N Play

What's the point of any of them anyways?
To occupy a baby so the parent doesn't have to?
So the baby isn't left to figure out how to occupy themselves? *gasp*

What's wrong with the good old floor when not in an adult caregiver's arms?
I felt this way about jump-a-roos and other "containment" devices, but one of my kids' physical therapists had ordered me to put him in the jumparoo and leave him there as much of the day as he would tolerate (he had CP and wouldn't hold his head up even at 16 months-because he was a micro-preemie, he was about the size of a 4 month old at this age). I got a jumparoo and put him in it and it really did help him with physical development. He was a kid who was never supposed to even crawl, and he started walking recently at 3.5 years old! The PT told me that there was a time and place for everything.

His other therapists (early learning specialist, speech therapist, and one more who I can't remember) would bring ipads and use those during therapy. When I asked about using screens at that age, they insisted that it was the norm and that it was helpful. All those therapists really helped me stop seeing black and white.

I have a Bumbo-I use it for feeding infants their purees. I like keeping infants on the floor as much as possible because I feel that it helps physical development, but also because I think it helps them feel more confident in being on their own level. I do almost everything on the floor with infants. I use the Bumbo just to keep them from wandering away during a feeding, because before I started using it and would have an infant just sit on the floor, they would constantly wander off as soon as they could crawl.
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