Graco Lovin' Hug Infant Swing, Ellie

 (38 customer reviews)

Customer Video Review Length:: 4:22 Mins

After listening to several parents you learn that babies either love or hate swings. I am happy to say that our little girl "Loves" this swing! In terms of features I am not of anything that I would add - it seems to have everything that you would want!

Things we like

- 6 speed/heights for the automatic swing - the higher levels seem to be ideal for getting out baby to sleep while the lower settings help keep her asleep.
- Various sounds - nature sounds (which admittedly are not the greatest), the "heartbeat" sound, and our favorite a nice selection of classical music
- Seat has two vibration settings
- Nice little mobile for small eyes to stare at!
- The seat has multiple settings for reclining
- Nice weight rating so you can use thing for quite awhile.
- Built in timer
- Volume control for all music/sound features

Areas for improvement -

- Not the easiest thing to put together. In...Read more

My son had a love hate relationship with this swing. It depended on the month and time of day, I guess. Sometimes, it was a great way to get him to fall asleep or a quick place to secure him when I needed two hands free. It was used moderately--not $100+ worth.

I enjoyed the classical music, but the other sounds were more like white noise than their description. The adults could not tolerate them.

The mobile has nothing for a child. From the child's view is just the underside of turtles (a circle with nubs) in hard to distinguish pastel colors. In fact, my son stared at the bright warning label on the inside of the stand longer in one sitting than he ever looked at the mobile over the lifetime of the swing.

I HATED the tray. It was a useless obstacle in reaching my non-mobile infant (the harness seemed more than sufficient for safety). By the time my child was old enough to use the tray, he didn't use the swing.

Overall, the swing...Read more

I recieved this swing at my baby shower for my first. I loved it. It put together fine and We used it daily. When my son was about 20 pounds I decided to put him in his swing while I did something, and noticed the swing part wasn't working. I didn't really worry cause I figured the batterties were dying or he just weighed to much, so I put it into storage.

I am expecting my second baby now, and I took the swing out and bought new batteries for it. I decided to get it running seeing as I am due in 4 weeks. Well, much to my suprise the swing part is broken. The music works fine, but I found that the weight of just the swing itself is to much for the motor to handle and makes a LOUD clunking sound like it's dying. When I take the swing part off it continues to make the clunking sound but the part where you connect the actual swing to the base will swing. So needless to say, I need a new swing for baby #2.