Boppy 5 in 1 Fun Activity Gym Review

I registered for this product with dreams of sparking my child's curiosity and entertaining him at the same time.  The package promised a toy that would make him smile and it was a Boppy!  All of the parenting magazines said that I needed a Boppy.  I figured I could detach the toys when I needed to use it for nursing.  None of these things came true.

When we took it out of the package, we had to assemble the toy.  It looked simple enough.  It was two bendy poles that attached to the Boppy with Link-a-Doos and then the three toys attached to the Boppy with more Link-a-Doos.  However, the bendy poles didn't want to bend and the Link-a-Doos barely fit on the tags they were supposed to slide on to.  After some wrestling with a Boppy, I was ready to see that sweet smile on my son's face as his curiosity sparked and he grasped for his golden ring... or purple elephant rattle.

This didn't happen.  Not only did he keep sliding down off of the Boppy, putting his neck in awkward angles, he couldn't have grabbed for his toys if he wanted to. His arms weren't long enough yet.  All it managed to do was severely frustrate him and cause a loud wail to errupt from his tiny, scrunched up face.  He didn't look the baby on the package.  In fact, my husband swears he looked like Don Knotts.

We ended up detaching the Boppy and putting the rest of the parts in a box (we couldn't get the bendy poles to bend enough to go back into the travel pouch).  The Boppy was used as a nursing pillow and as a support for tummy time, so I probably got the money out of it, but I'm still not impressed.  Save yourself some money and just buy a Boppy and some rattles.