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Apart from being the Noble Park Jolly Jumping Champion myself at 9 months old.....................I'm TOLD I was pretty darn good.
I am a big fan of the good ol' Jolly Jumper. I own 4, I currently have 2 in my possetion and one at a sister in-laws and the other
at my Mum's ready for visits and other visiting budding jumpers.
They are not only fun and great excercise for the bub's they were designed for, but they are like having another pair of hands ready to hold bub whilst you go to the loo, or JUMP on Minti whilst they JUMP in the door way.
I used them when I was Nannying, I even leant out my own, yes that's right, I owned them prior to even being married let alone pregnant.
They can be used from 4 months old but it is best to use your own judgement in this and judge how strong their necks are more than anything else. I popped my daughter in at 4 months and she LOVED it. I did take the precaution of jamming a book down her back, not so she might absorbed information by some kind of cosmic, woopteewoo way, but so her neck wouldn't go back as she had a habit of liking to watch the chain bounce up and down above her head and I was a bit worried about some kind of whip lash. But a book fixed that and as she is now 10 months old she no longer requires the book.
I have heard EVERY excuse NOT to use them from "They create bandy legs" to curviture of the spine, and hears my spin on it.
I am 35 years old and they were being used on mass when I was a baby, that means they were out BEFORE I was born, we are probably talking some where in the vacinity of 40 years if not a bit longer. Would it not be feasable to pressume that if they caused either or any other deformaty then they probably would have been altered or better yet taken off the market entirely. Of course they would have done, the fact that after 40 years they're still going strong is a testament to how great they really are.
I think there are always going to those people that poo-poo everything and stand appaleed at this that ot the other, but we are all grown ups and we are all capable of making up our own minds.
I just wanted to let all you brand new parents out there that perhaps have a long shift working partner and no extended family for support, to go and get one, you wont regret it for a second.
My daughter DEMANDS to go in it and has done since she was 5 months old...she jumps up and down on you winging until you put her in it and then she jumps and jumps and has learned to twist her chain up and pull her feet up and gives herself a fast wizzy dizzy....she's a thrill seeker my girl.
Jump On.
(October 2006) (
