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| Brand: Graco
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $139.99
Buy New: $119.99
You Save: $20.00 (14%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Color: Graham
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 30.6
Dimensions (in): 32.6 x 10.9 x 10.7
Model: 9883GRM
UPC: 047406083848
EAN: 0047406083848
Release Date: April 8, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Good item February 16, 2008
I like this product very much. Easy to use and a big enough for my baby to sleep in. I like its colors. Only two things I was not really care for were a changing diper stand and a vibration under mattress. I think they should be eliminated and the product should upgrade on music and hanging animals (rotating with music etc....). Just my opinion though.
 VERY easy to assemble February 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Received this pack-n-play as a gift from my in-laws. I was able to assemble myself in about 30 minutes, 7 1/2 months pregnant! The colors are very neutral (perfect for boy OR girl) and match our bedroom very well... a nice change from the usual green or yellow. The attached changing table is also very handy!
Mommy of Almost 2 February 7, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Sorry it's so long, but hopefully insightful!
I originally got this item as a baby shower gift, I think, we may have purchased it ourselves. It's been awhile. Anyway, we got this item before my daughter was born and she will be 3 this July so rest assured I have waited a good long while before attempting to review it. As a bassinet, my only complaint was that it seemed to dip a little in the center so my daughter would have to positioned there or she would roll onto her belly when sleeping on her side (we were very SIDS conscious). Other than that, it served us well in this capacity for her first two months until we decided to move her into her crib. It was deep enough that I didn't have to worry about her somehow rolling herself out of it by some miracle but not so deep that I had to bend too much to lift her out, very important for anyone who has had a c-section (i didn't but I've been told). Not a great place for changing a diaper since this does strain your back a bit if you are taller, my husband is quite a bit taller than my own 5 foot frame and he wasn't pleased with that fact.
The included changing table attachment was a handy idea although I personally was a little on the short side to use it as often as i would have liked so it became more a diaper holder, etc, one other feature I wish this one would have had although we just spent the 20 bucks on a nice little roller cart from Target that held a lot more anyway. For someone even a few inches taller than me, I can see it being a huge help however to have that space for changing, my husband used it often until I started piling the diapers in it. One complaint on this model's changing station as opposed to the slightly more expensive models, is that it covers half the bassinet area if it's attached and detaching it several times a day to lay the baby down is really really annoying but due to the small dip in the center I mentioned, we had to, another reason why it didn't remain in use very long. The higher up models allows you to flip the station to the side, exposing the whole bassinet and then flipping it back when needed.
The mobile was pretty much junked the first month, it isn't much use. My daughter never seemed at all interested in it, it sat too high for her to have noticed it and as others have said, it doesn't really attach securely. Now, its not at all a heavy piece, but still, I didn't want it falling on my new born. Also, it's just kind of boring. No color, no sound, no lights, nothing. Just a few white teddy bears hanging from a pole. I'm not one for over stimulating especially before bed, but a little something would have been nice. Even just a little more color to catch a baby's interest.
The Music and sounds thing. I loved the idea. I loved the idea of the vibration too. In reality, not that great. The vibration we used a few times, however, it's kind of noisy. Not the unit itself, but the way it attaches and rubs against the mattress just grated on my nerves and woke rather than soothed the baby, and my girl is a heavy sleeper. Could be we attached it wrong, but we followed the directions and just couldn't get around the sound. The music was nice, a little on the quiet side even at the highest setting but I suppose I'd rather have it that way than too loud with no way to quiet it. The light was definitely useful and used often at night in those moments when I would wake and had that neurotic first time mom need to make sure she was still breathing.
Ease of use. Before we grew a brain and figured out the right way to break it down and put it up, I hated it. I could never get all the sides to lock in. i'd get two in then one would fall as the other locked and so on until I nearly broke the thing out of frustration. However, once I realized that if you pull the sides up and lock into place BEFORE pushing the center down to lock, and pull up center before trying to unlock the sides, it was very easy and I could set it up or break it down in seconds with no problem. Yeah, I know, I said it was before we grew a brain.
Repacking it was only an issue if i wanted to take the changing station part with us and a little tight fitting if I wanted to take the poles to set up as a bassinet but at least I figured out how to do that part. The changing station never left the house because I never could get that in without having to take it completely apart which was more trouble than it was worth when i had a foldable changing mat in the diaper bag.
It is a little heavy but no more than any other full sized play yard I've tried and it has traveled extensively across the country as well as locally to Grandma's and family. Now, after more than two years of using it, first as I've described, then later as a play pen and most recently as a travel bed for my toddler, it is only being put away because she doesn't fit in it for naps at grandma's anymore, however only for a short while as I am due with our second child in just a few months.
Having said everything above in the interest of anyone who wants an honest opinion, I still would have purchased it in the beginning. For the price at the time (it was a different print but same model), I really did love this play yard. I loved the shape and style, the ease of daily use, and it got a lot of use, and the fact that I saved a bit over pricier models. I would recommend it to anyone and the only reason I didn't give it the full 5 stars is because I reserve that for items I think couldn't be improved without drastically changing the design. Mainly because of the changing table not being easier to move out of the way in a realistic day in the life of a mom and the vibration thing I could have done without because of the noise, it only got a 4 star from me. Had it not had these two features to begin with to find fault with, it would have gotten the full 5.
This play yard is now being permanently being kept at Grandma's (definitely true, less to carry the better!) and for our new baby I will be purchasing the slightly higher model with the flipping changing table. check back in a few years for the review! :)
I will say, having been around babies and baby products a lot in my life, Graco is still one of the only ones that consistently have good quality play yards and I will continue to recommend Gracy Pack-n-Plays to anyone looking.
Hope this helped!
Best purchase ever December 5, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've purchased this as a baby shower gift three times in the past five or so years. To be honest, I'm not sure if this was the exact model I've purchased each time but close enough.
I have gotten rave reviews of the Pack and Plays from everyone I bought them for. They say they are one of the handiest things they own for their babies. Some went out and bought additional units to have at the grandparents' home. It is packable - I folded one up myself and it is cleverly designed. However, as any new parent will attest, the less one has to haul to grandma's the better. And this is more versatile than buying a second crib.
I've also heard only good things about them from mothers at the showers who already owned Pack and Plays.
The first one I bought thru Amazon had a problem with a side-bar lock. I took it back to Babies' R Us and exchanged it. No problem.
I swear I don't work in baby retail or own stock in Graco. I'm just testifying to what the parents said.
Pleased Grandmother November 24, 2007
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought it for my first grandchild who I have not yet met. His parents picked it out and they are very satisfied with this product.
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