![]() Hanging, lightly-stuffed toucan and butterfly toys ensure that it’s practically impossible for my child to get bored in the Jumperoo. And, in a nice perk, there are plenty of spots on the Jumperoo to hook other toys on to mix things up a little. There’s also a plastic elephant that hooks onto a “tree” that she’s especially partial too. It features 360-degrees of action with a seat that turns, so Isla can bat at the giraffe with the spinner bead neck, bounce around to the lion slider, flip over the alligator rattle roller and move on to the monkey slider. The first thing I noticed once it was assembled is that the Jumperoo is packed with activities. These have some benefits for taller babies over the floor-fixed versions.Ĭlick here for more info, and our recommendations.Fisher-Price Animal Activity Jumperoo Buy From Amazon While we're sure these alternatives are great for those middle range body lengths, but if yours is a tall baby, stay away.Īside from this kind of stationary jumper and baby activity center, there is always the classic baby doorway jumper. ![]() These are products parents of average height babies swear by, too. A tall baby would be flat footed (and able to push out), on the highest settings. The additional problem with all the alternatives, was that their seat heights weren't high enough. ![]() More A Variety of Tall Jumparoo Models by Fisher Price This link takes you to a range of various ones similar to the Rainforest Jumperoo Essentially, we're talking about most of the most popular models out there.īut a variety of Fisher Price models all have the narrower, deeper bucket. The baby activity centers we investigated and found to be too short, or which had wide shallow seat designs that made the baby too "top heavy" and tippable, included: Baby Einstein Stationary Activity Center and Motion Activity Jumper, Evenflo Smartsteps Exersaucer, and 3-in-1 ExerSaucer Triple Fun, Baby Sit and Step, Bright Starts Around We Go. While we hope Fisher Price makes another version that accommodates 30 pounds instead of 25, at least this new baby gear worked for a long and lean body! By the time he outgrows it, he will be able to sit in other places. Click through for current pricing here: Fisher-Price Rainforest Jumperoo In fact, a shorter baby would likely not fit this baby jumper at all, because his or her armpits wouldn't clear the top of the seat. They were safely out of range for a sleepy face-plant. None of the toys were at eye level either. In the tallest position, it was even too high for our 30 inch tall baby to touch his toes to the ground. The height adjustment is taller than the other products too. The seat has a higher back too.no top-heavy tipping backwards either. That means the diameter of the opening is inches smaller than the wide shallow seats of the other baby bouncers or activity centers. Worse still, these sharp toys were at eye level for his height! You must definitely be careful of this with upright play bouncers!Īfter much measuring and searching, we found only one baby activity center brand or baby bouncer that fit a tall baby body: the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo. With our first "stationary entertainer" our baby could lose his balance in his wide, shallow seat, and "tip" straight onto the sharp plastic toys. Tummy control isn't developed at that age. If the seat opening is wide too, (most are), your tall 4-month-old can freely tip over in every direction. However, with a tall baby, the top of the seat may only come up to their waist instead of their arm pits. There's nowhere for them to tip inside such a high seat, and the surrounding toys are out of face-plant range. On an average length baby, the top of the seat reaches higher on their torso, to basically under their armpits. Some of the models offer 3 height adjustments, but they're often too low to begin with for a tall baby.įinally, the seats themselves can be a tall baby challenge. Generally, the baby sits in a seat or "bucket". These baby bouncer entertainment centers also have limits to their height. Otherwise, you're looking for the next thing to put the baby in and the next $100. While your baby will probably have some window of time in which any of them can be used, you want that window to be longer than three weeks. A really tall four month old can be nearly 20 pounds already. ![]() The challenge with these big hunks of baby gear, is that they are generally designed for a baby old enough to sustain head and neck control - generally 4 months. In this category we're basically talking about any one of the variety of stand-up play centers. From exersaucer, stationary entertainer, to jumper or jumperoo. There are lots of names for the baby activity center and baby jumper kind of products. ![]()
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