My daughter is really going to be really spoiled this Christmas (she is the only grandchild on both mine and my husband's side so both grandmas really spoil her) and with her birthday then coming up at the beginning of February she is likely to get more stuff. In a panic preparation to make some room in the house, I have decided to go through her toys that are taking up far too much space in our dining room, living and basically all around the house. A lot of them she doesn't play with anymore and whilst I was going through packing it away, I came across this cute Fisher Price Seahorse. I have completely forgotten that we have it actually.

My daughter was given it as a present when she was born by her uncle. It has since been 21 months but from what i remember, the seahorse came packadged in an open window box with instructions included with it.

Seahorse is aimed to soothe the baby to sleep by playing gentle lullabies with the sea/ocean sound in the background. I must admit, this toy is very cute and very simple. It has got cute smiley face and it's made of really soft material. Music is played by gently pressing seahorse's belly which then plays for 5 minutes continuously. During this time baby can nicely doze off by listening to 8 gentle lullabies and sea sound and whilst playing, seahorse's belly glows in yellow. Music then stops on its own after 5 minutes or can be stopped by pressing the belly down again and holding until the music stops and light goes off.

I haven't actually used this toy until my daughter was around 4 months old. She was used to going to sleep on her own in the dark so she didn't need music etc to soothe her to sleep. She did have the seahorse around though in the day and I tried to use it few time to soothe her sleep in the day and it didn't quite work. I found that it had opposite effect on my daughter and that music and light made her wanted to play rather than sleep and glowing belly really distracted her. I was not too bothered, i stopped using it to soothe her but I did leave it around though for her to play with if she wants. To be honest she has maybe grabbed it couple of times thats all. From my point of view, as mentioned above this toy is cute looking I have one negative from me which is that I did find the music to be rather annoying and if this was not a gift, i would not have purchased it at all.

Seahorse can be brought in either pink or blue colour, we have a pink version. Available in many places such as Argos, Toys r us, Mothercare, Amazon, Ebay etc. Currently on Amazon it sells at £18.99 it might be worth to look around though for cheaper price.

Could I recommend it? I would certainly advise anyone to give this toy a go but would mention that it didn't work for my daughter this of course doesn't meant that it would not work for other child. I do like Fisher Price toys, they are great and this one is not an exception. It just wasn't one for my daughter really.