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Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Save space with the Graco® Swing By Me™ Swing, the multi-purpose swing that offers two products in one. Designed to allow you to bring baby with you from room to room at home and when you are traveling, this swing includes a comfortable seat, multiple swing speeds, and an overhead toy bar with soft detachable toys to keep her engaged. This swing's compact, folding frame makes for easy storage and provides on-the-go convenience.
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Customer Reviews for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Review 1 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Extremely happy!
6/6/13,
sweetangeldiver
My daughter is 11 months and still uses this swing. She's tiny for her age. I've never had an issue w it and its by far her favorite!
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Review 2 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Worst purchase ever!!!
4/17/13,
DisappointedMom
The first couple of weeks that I owned this swing it worked perfectly...I loved it. But here I am just two months later and many battery purchases later and this swing only works a couple minutes at a time. It will start swinging just fine but then about five minutes later it will come to a complete stop. I have to manually push this swing in order for it to work!!! I am very disappointed in this product! It costs over $60 dollars and stopped working properly within a couple of weeks. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT!
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Review 3 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Soothing it does!
4/11/13,
anabiadad
Good product, easy to assemble
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Review 4 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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dont waste your money
3/11/13,
MAMAJ
Over all the swing is good and does the basic job. It eats up batteries a lot- i would recommend a plug in swing.
When I took it apart to move my family to a new home the "plugs" dropped into the legs and I could not get them out to reset it up for my baby.
When I took it apart to move my family to a new home the "plugs" dropped into the legs and I could not get them out to reset it up for my baby.
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Review 5 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Wouldn't buy it again
3/1/13,
pbxyz
First off it says that it goes both ways - back and fourth and side ways - it only goes back and fourth! The motor is super loud. I just bought this for my 2 month old and it's not in my favor at all. The toys aren't even reachable for my little guy too.
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Review 6 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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2/22/13,
natesia
Its a great swing except for the motor makes too much noise. besides that I like it a lot!
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Review 7 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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amazing
1/25/13,
kay1990
Folds easy, saves room and the two different heights is very convenient
my son loves it
my son loves it
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Review 8 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Wouldn't buy it again.
1/23/13,
Myburntwings
This is an ok swing but it has a lot of flaws that I have found in the 3 months I have been using it. First off the motor is way too loud, it tends to wake my baby at times. The seat is too deep it makes her lay at an odd angle. The Animals are more of a hindrance than they are entertaining so Im glad the bar they are on comes off. I do wish it came with a wall adapter due to going through batteries like mad. The only thing I have found about it that I can really praise is the portability. I love being able to move it from room to room without difficulty, and even though I have panned this swing I am glad I have had it because she had to sleep in it the first couple month she was born due to colic. It was a life saver, I just wish it was a little different.
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Review 9 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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My son likes It alot!
1/20/13,
wenaleang
I like that it can be used in two height settings and multiple reclining positions. My baby likes the rocking and moving! I would recommend for babies with acid reflux like my son. They are not too big and can fold in half easily.
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Review 10 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Broken Motor
1/19/13,
AngrySwingHater
After one week of owning this swing, the motor died. We returned it to the store where we were expecting to pick up a replacement, however this was an online order only. After waiting a full week and getting no sleep at nights the new one came. It also died about a week later. I do not recommend this swing.
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Review 11 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Love this swing
1/18/13,
Melk
I received this swing as a baby shower gift back in Oct. My son loves this swing. We use it frequently, pretty much every day. We have only had to change the batteries once. It's very soothing and puts my little boy right to sleep and calms him when he is upset. I love the swing and would recommend it.
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Review 12 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Overall Rating:
Noisy
1/18/13,
Sheenabeena3
I Love Graco products but the swing is very loud and noisy. This is the one product that I was very unsatitfied with. Otherwise I love my stroller, car seat, pack and play and high chair.
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Review 13 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Good, reliable, affordable
1/18/13,
Pickmama
There are several tempting swings out there with all the bells and whistles and you will be paying for all of those bells and whistles. I wanted a swing that I could put my son in to soothe him when cranky and possibly rock him to sleep during naps and didn't want to spend a fortune on it especially since babies don't generally stay with swings for too long. I was almost sucked in by some of the super cute but expensive swings out there but reeled myself in. This swing does what it should. My son digs it and doesn't need anything flashier. The only thing we have added is some of the hanging mobile items you can buy for a few bucks now that he is 7 months and needs a little more entertainment. I am very pleased with this basic and affordable item.
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Review 14 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Overall Rating:
Best Swing Ever
12/14/12,
redda777
I got this swing for my babyshower and before I even had the baby I returned it after reading many reviews about the battery life being bad and the motor being to loud. I returned this for a power operated swing instead. Once the baby was born I set the swing up and he absolutely hated it! I packed that one up and took it back and got this one again despite what I read. I am SO HAPPY I did! The baby loves this swing it helps me keep my sanity. My baby is going on 4 months now and I just had to replace the batteries for the first time this week. I am not sure how that happened since he goes into the swing atleast once a day. It is wonderful as a full swing or you can pack it up and take it will you, then set it up as a mini swing. We are in such a small place right now that it fits perfectly on the lowered setting. The motor does not sound loud and the baby loves that the plush toys come off and he can play with them. I cannot say enough about this swing if I have another baby I will definitely be getting this again! Thank you Graco
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Review 15 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Broken motor after two weeks
12/13/12,
Ruth
Replaced the batteries several times, motor just keeps dying. Worked the first couple nights, now just won't swing. This is a huge pain since my daughter will only sleep in a swinging swing. She's only six pounds!! It's definitely not a weight issue. I will be returning this product immediately and buying another swing, a different brand.
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Review 16 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Same problem
9/28/12,
Dakota
I have had the same problems as most of the moms on here. The swing won't work now that my son is 11 lbs. it just stops. It's not the batteries, I've spent almost as much money on new batteries now as I did the swing and I've only had it a month. HOW ANNOYING!!!!
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Review 17 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Overall Rating:
DO NOT BUY
9/15/12,
Anonymous
Firstly, I am against these things in the first place. Most up-to-date research shows the more babies are strapped into these contraptions, the less they are able to move freely and develop their motor skills. That being said, my very set-in-her-ways grandmother-in-law insisted on buying two of these for my twins. They were hardly ever used, but were used on occasion to appease her. In the handful of times they were used, they wouldn't even swing my 16lb babies (and it's supposedly good to 25.5lbs) what good is a swing that can't swing?! Works great when nothing is in it if you're into just listening to an annoying click-clunk-click-clunk all day. Do not waste your money on this glorified baby chair, because that's all it is is a chair.
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Review 18 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
Overall Rating:
Dont buy
8/23/12,
B. Kelly
Motor died within 2 weeks. Replaced batteries and still not working. after researching it found out others have had the same problem. Graco is notorious for these motors going bad.
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Review 19 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Nice swing, eats batteries, replaced mechanism
8/15/12,
Bmiller
As the review above this stated this swing really goes through the batteries. My son is three months old and the mechanism that makes the swing "go" died. Since I was able to register all my graco products a simple email to graco and they replaced this mechanism no questions asked. Therefore my rating of the swing is good due to the good customer service. My son loves this!!
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Review 20 for Swing By Me™ Portable Swing
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Eats Up Batteries!!!
6/6/12,
jgalough
Purchased this item for my newborn. When she was little (8-12lbs) we didn't have a problem with the battery life. We easily got 1 month out of a set of 4 C batteries (expected). The weight limit on the product indicates "up to 25.5lbs" Once my little one hit the 12lb mark it started going downhill from there. At first, we got 2 weeks out of the batteries, now at 16lbs we don't even get one week on a 4 pack of batteries. Batteries are expensive, not to mention, we have attempted to buy rechargeable batteries for this unit and the 3 different brands that we have tried are not compatible with this swing. So rechargeables are out. I would say, if you plan on only using this item for the first 6 months (which is unlikely) go ahead and buy it, but otherwise.... invest in a swing the has an AC Adapter that plugs right into the wall. It will run you more at first but buying batteries every week for this swing it just insane!
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