A swing was the last big thing that we purchased for our baby.  I was hesitant to get one before he was born because they are costly and I was afraid that he wouldn't even like it.  Babies can be tempermental.

So when our son was a few weeks old and we were desperate for sleep, we took a trip to Babies R Us one night and "test drove" the swings they had in stock.  We picked out a few that we liked and put him in them to see how he reacted.  In the end, we liked the papasan style swing that Fisher Price offered.  We were about to buy the Little Lamb swing which was about $150 when we decided...