Playpens in General Reviews

We got a playpen, and that was the day that my daughter learnt to pull herself up to standing from sitting. She spent the next couple of days practising, and then she was confident enough to do it anywhere. There's a lot of criticism of playpens as 'babysitters' but sometimes, you just do need to hang the washing out or start cooking ...  Read the complete review

I remember when my son was taking his first steps; the first thing that we started thinking of was to get a playpen and a safety gate. he was almost 11 months then and it was disturbing for us to watch him trying to climb something too high for him and fall- I know its normal but as a mom, we just feel the pain a bit more, especially when it is ...  Read the complete review

A play pen is some thing that I have never used on a regular basis. I do like my children to have the freedom to explore, so I never use stair gates on kitchen doors or to keep baby in one room, I only ever used them for top of stairs. I really don't like the image play pens and how I have seen people use them. The child is put in the ...  Read the complete review

I never used a playpen for my first 2 children but with my 3rd i had 2 other children to deal with and was unable to give my daughter 100% attention 100% of the time! When my daughter turned 9 months she started crawling and all of a sudden was into everything! Now my house is as babyproofed as you can possibly make it but it is ...  Read the complete review

In my experience my play pen has been an absolute life saver. We bought it about 5 months ago, and although I can't remember the make or model that it is, it is the same one as pictured by the heading on the main page for this review. We decided to buy a plastic play pen, because it easily comes apart and stores away nicely too. I was attracted by ...  Read the complete review

Playpens in my opinion are an essential iitem to buy when you have a small child. They are designed for the safety of children and work very well in my opinion. They are quite expensive to buy however it is well worth the money to know that your child is safe when you have jobs to do around the house. I bought a lindam playpen for ...  Read the complete review

Everyone has different opinions on playpens but mine was a true godsend! I really don't think I would of coped without out. Although I don't like the whole idea of babies being in a 'cage' or not being able to do anything it helped me out hell of alot. You can buy playpens in most stores now, including Mothercare, Argos even on Ebay, I bought mine ...  Read the complete review

I had a play pen given to me when my son was tiny. At the time he wasn't even crawling but I was dead sure I would use it. I thought it would be a really useful thing to have and would have probably gone out and bought one at a later date. The one that we were given was very old and it even says it was made in the 1970's. It's all wooden and folds ...  Read the complete review

What would you do, let your baby roam freely around the house learning what they could and couldn't touch, where they could and couldn't go and what would be safe and what would be dangerous or would you put them in a plastic/wooden cage in the corner of the room with a few toys just for your own gain? If you can't tell from above, we ...  Read the complete review

Playpens are a god send! They can provide a safe environment for a young child to play in and for parents to know where the child is and no harm can come to them. That is of course only suitable toys are in with the child and the child isn't able to climb out! I have a travel cot which I use as a playpen, it is a mothercare basinette, ...  Read the complete review

I have been having a lot of trouble of keeping my child away when I am cooking or doing some work at home especially when I am alone with my infant. It gets dangerous to let him move around whlist I am working. This concern let me to think about buying a peace of furniture that will restrict my baby's movements and at the same time amuse him for ...  Read the complete review

I bought a travel cot to use as a playpen just before my daughter started to crawl, at around six months of age. I got one from Mothercare's own range, and it cost about £40.00, which is very good value. My daughter has always been very active, and was rolling over at about four months, and crawling by seven months, so I thought that a playpen ...  Read the complete review

Play pens in my oppinion are a god send for any mom who cant spend all day sitting on there bottoms doing nothing. Before i had my daughter i used to frown upon people who caged there children up in a play pen but by the time she was 8 months old, scrawling around my house and pulling herself up on the furniture i decided they were ...  Read the complete review

In the corner of my sitting room is a wooden cage. It is a wooden playpen about 3foot by 3foot. In it is a small duvet which is comfy to sit on. A cusion from the back of an old armchair which is comfy to fall on and a selection of toys. This is a safe environment for my baby to go in. You may think it is mean to cage up a baby but I ...  Read the complete review

My brother and sister in law have a daughter a few days younger than my son and they will not buy a playpen/travel cot for her because they think that it is like putting her in a prison. I have a travel cot and have started using it as a playpen recently as my son is now far more active than he once was. It is absolutely one of the best ...  Read the complete review

I stumbled across this subject area by accident, as playpens are no longer of much use to me. I though I would add my note of support for the use of playpens, which on occasions when my daughter was young, I found absolutely invaluable both in my home environment and at nursery. AT NURSERY I went back to work through ...  Read the complete review

This opinion has been totally rewritten because it was one of my first ops and was totally pathetic. When my toddler was a baby she was such a fidget and never slept in one position for more than 5 minutes at a time. Because of this she would always end up sleeping sideways with her legs stuck through the bars of the cot and kept banging ...  Read the complete review

I wouldn't know what to do without my combined playpen / travel cot. It really is a life-saver and one of the best bits of safety equipment that my flat has. I can’t recommend having a playpen highly enough. I live in a tiny one bedroom flat which presents all sorts of problems, one of which being that there is no room on the ...  Read the complete review

Ive just read an opinion about playpens and I have been spured to write my own. I have a Playpen/travel cot and unlike the old wooden ones which dont collapse down this one does. I brought it while my first daughter was 6 mths as I was going down to Hastings to see family and she had grown out of her moses basket.I kept it downstairs and set ...  Read the complete review

I am totally against playpens. It stops the child having the freedom to discover the world around them. Children are safe in a home environment if they are well supervised. The child has a cramped space to play in in a play pen. My mother in law was going to buy me one when my 1st child was born, and I said to her that I would not thank her ...  Read the complete review