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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
We've done two kids without a Saucer. At birth they are carried and slinged everywhere. At one month, they can go into a bouncy seat, which takes up far less space than the Saucer. At two months, it's the battery powered swing. At 5.5 months, they go into the Johnny Jump-Up, and there they remain until they can crawl, and then we are well and truly fucked because they've got legs like Bo Jackson from all the jumping.
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We had both saucer and swing, and the periods of use didn't overlap that much. The saucer didn't start until 4 months and was done by 9; the swing started very early and was done by 5 when he started grabbing the bars to stop himself. We also used them for different things: the saucer for keeping him occupied during cooking/meals, the swing for when he just would not go to sleep and stay that way (I think I have confessed to this group before that we actually left him in it all night once or twice when we were truly desperate).
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Caveat: my godson was Saucerized and he's slightly smarter than my unsaucered ones. I attribute this to his two Ivy-to-Ph.D. parents rather than to the plastic rings and balls he looked at for two months of his life. If my wife had married better my kids would have fighting chance, but no.
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Well, the saucer certainly doesn't seem to have hindered Magnus's intellectual development any. I must say that his particular personality (long attention span, good at entertaining himself) made the saucer work particularly well for us, and all kids are different. If you're thinking of buying one, see if you can try one out first, either at a store or at a friend's. We tried Magnus in a friend's at four months while visiting family for Christmas, and he loved it so much we purchased one immediately upon our return home.
Because of the brief period of use, saucers are perfect things to get at resale or from friends. The seats are usually removable and washable, and the toy parts often are too.
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