Bouncer / Rocker. Yay or Nay?

Thinking of getting one of those bouncer / rockers for my 3 month old. She often wants to be held and walked around with. It gets tiring beyond a point and I’m looking for solutions.

Would you recommend a rocker mammas? If yes, which one? I ideally would want to spend money on somehting that’s long lasting and not limited to first year of birth. I’ve heard of Nuna Leaf Grow and Baby Bjorn.

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My baby absolutely loves her bouncer! It is really a life saver for my husband and I as we can enjoy our meal times without carrying our baby in our arms. I bought red kite which is exactly the same as baby bjorn (but way cheaper). We've been using it since she's 3 months old. She is 6 now and I believe we can use it for another month max.

We have one for our little girl but she rarely tolerates just being sat in it unless I'm talking/interacting with her- it still saves me holding her all the time though if I'm sat down!

We bought a baby bjorn one that she doesn’t use. I then put her in one at my friends that she seemed to like, so I bought her that one and she has spent a lot of time in it. It has a toy bar that she really likes (took til about 4.5 months for her to reach it but used to lower it for her). It is a chad valley jungle friends bouncer (I actually bought it for £10 from fb marketplace good as new)

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8794590?clickPR=plp:1:47

We have the Graco soothe & sway swing/bouncer (similar to the graco duetsoothe & the graco duetconnect - all 3 of them are swings, or you can pop off the seat to use as a bouncer). My little only tolerates it if I put him in while he’s sleeping. For the rocking/bouncing to get him to sleep I use a yoga ball.

We have this one:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9592911

(I replaced the toys though)

Depending on how good your baby can hold her head you might want to hold off for a bit and buy something like the skip hop activity center! My daughter just turned 4 months and we got it for her and she’s obsessed with it. She always wanted to be held up, sat up, and walked with but she loves playing in that. We have 3 bouncers and a swing and she hates them already bc they don’t fit her up enough🥴😂

No we never used one just a playmat on the floor

I have that one also!

We have the baby bjorn bouncer and in the morning he sits and looks out the window while we make/eat breakfast. It’s nice. Not all babies like it but ours does. If he’s fussy it doesn’t fix that for me, but might buy me 5-10 minutes to finish a meal if I rock him with my foot lol

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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