Tiny Love Gymini - Black, White & Red
by TINY LOVE
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Toys and Games Reviews of Tiny Love Gymini - Black, White & Red
Customer Review: great product
Summary: 5 Stars
This gym is great. We bought it because our other one was falling apart after being used for 1 baby. This is the only one I found with the black and white on it. My baby loves it. She loves to look at the black and white and the toys capture her attention. She loves to look in the mirror and the toys hang low enough that she can bat at them and make them swing. It is easy to store or bring somewhere and it washes up nice. I would recommend this product.Customer Review: Great!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This entertains my 7 week old daughter for about 15-20 mins giving me some much needed hands free time. She loves staring at the black and white arches. This is a must play mat!Customer Review: Better Then My Old One!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my 2nd one of these and this one is even better!!! Perfect for a growing baby!!!!Customer Review: baby's favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a lightly padded fabric mat (machine washable) with two arches from which you can dangle toys. You can put baby on her back to look up at the toys or on her tummy to make the famed "tummy time" more tolerable. There are many models of this gym by Tiny Love; I prefer this red, white, and black one because its high contrast is good for stimulating vision in the newest babies.
I really do believe that this is the only toy you need until baby is sitting up (although a mobile and a mirror are good too). To be honest my initial reaction was that these gyms are a lot of $ for something the babe will outgrow by 5 months. However, we received this as a hand-me-down and now understand that it would be worth the $. It is supposed to develop visual tracking, but our baby was reaching for the objects from day one. Her interest in the Gymini really picked up at about 2 weeks, and at 6 weeks it was the only way I could put her down for 10 minutes. I don't feel guilty about putting her down on this because I really do believe it has developmental value. My daughter believes that the point of this is to pull the toys off, not just to bat at them. Before that she was really into kicking them.
As previous reviewers have mentioned, you can add things to make it more interesting. In my opinion, the best add-on is the Wind Chimes, also by Tiny Love. We also have a moose by Infantino, which can be pulled down so that it jitters its way back up (that's the most challenging). We used to wrap the spiral Whoozit around one side of an arch, but we took it off once she started using both hands in opposition because I worry that it is a strangulation hazard. We also have a Boppy on it to prop her up for tummy time -- that way she tolerates it a little longer.
Tip: no amount of additional purchases can beat moving the add-on toys around on the arches. Otherwise baby will cease to notice them.
In summary, this is the best baby gift to give a family expecting a newborn. We'll be sad when our daughter outgrows it at 5 months.
Customer Review: Yes, it's for a newborn!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am surprised at reviewers who say that this toy fails to capture a 12-month-old attention. This toy is designed specifically to appeal to the underdeveloped vision of a newborn. It is amazing how well it holds a tiny baby's focus the first day from the hospital while the good-old tried-and-true primary colors fail to do so. We now know that it is easiest for them to see black, white and red. I was astonished and how much calmer my baby was in this gym than anywhere else. He didn't start enjoying other similar environments (playgyms, swings, mats, etc) until he was close to four months! Later we took the toys off the bars and he enjoyed handling them. I'll buy another one for the next baby!