Dear Fisher Price:
In the sleep deprived reality of caring for a newborn, your deluxe bouncer offers much-needed respite. At 5:30am when my baby girl refuses to sleep another minute in her crib, she can often be lulled back to sleep after a few minutes of the chair's soothing vibrations. At 3:30pm when my baby girl refuses her afternoon nap, I can sometimes fool her into a few minutes of rest by placing her in the chair. At 5:30pm when my baby girl hits her cranky period and my husband and I are desperate for 10 minutes with hands free to scarf down dinner, the chair is the perfect sitter. At random points in the day when my baby girl wants nothing to do with the swing, exhausts the playmat, and listens to all the story time she can stand, a little quiet time in the chair is exactly the respite she needs.
However, perfection escapes this chair due to one fatal flaw... the vibrations automatically shut off after 30 minutes. Its as if the designers of this chair have no clue that it often takes at least 30 minutes for a newborn to be suckered into falling asleep. Inevitably, just when I breathe a sigh of relief because baby girl's heavy eyelids have finally closed and I'm pulling the afghan over my shoulders for a much-needed cat nap, bam! the vibrations stop, baby girl's eyelids fly open, and we're back to square one. Sometimes I can remember to quickly reset the vibrations after 25 minutes, buying myself another half an hour, but with a two-month-old, I can rarely remember deodorant let alone resetting the vibration on the bouncy chair mid-nap.
Please let me know when/if this flaw is rectified, as I would be first in line to purchase the new and improved model.
Warmest regards.
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