Fisher-Price CHN38 Rainforest Spacesaver Jumperoo, Portable Baby Chair and Bouncer with Rattle, Teething Toy, Music, Lights and Sounds

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A jumper does take up space, and its aesthetic is usually aimed at babies, but jumpers can provide parents with a few minutes to prepare dinner or clean up while the baby is having fun. At the Good Housekeeping Institute, our experts regularly review a range of kids' products, from baby gates to the year's best toys.

As soon as your baby begins to cruise — holding onto things and taking steps — they're too old to sit inside a baby jumper. To create this roundup of best baby jumpers, our experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute tested a variety of both freestanding jumpers and those that hang in doorways. While how it works is perfectly fine, I’m just comparing it to the other one and think that the three springs work better, for jumping anyway.RELATED: Find more products to make parent life easier in Good Housekeeping's 2022 Parenting Awards. The base under the seat is what bounces, and our tests show it doesn't move as much as the larger stationary jumpers or doorway jumpers. Our team of engineers and parenting pros have vetted more than 15 baby jumpers to find the best ones for every home. Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.

Testers noted that it's easy to get baby in and out of this seat and that the fabric is machine washable.Once this jumper is off the stand and on the floor, your toddler has access to all of that, plus the toys on each side and the back, including a shape sorter. The interactive, space-age ‘command center’ is packed with rainbow lights, sounds, and music that will keep baby engaged as they jump. Time spent on the floor in a safe environment exploring freely and playing is more conducive to your baby's motor, sensory and cognitive development," Oledzka says. It's since become a classic, not least because it comes with 10 animal-themed toys, along with music, sounds and blinking lights. Though this isn’t essential, I think its nice that they can move themselves around to the other toys and see different spaces in the room.

A freestanding jumper is much easier to move from place to place and has many more toys to play with, but it will take up much more room. For instance, they could yank the edge of a tablecloth and knock everything on the table onto their head. When your baby is riding in the seat, the interactive steering wheel sets off more than a hundred songs and sayings. We're impressed that this jumper has five height adjustments — more than most — so a short baby will fit into it, and even a tall baby should be able to use it until about their first birthday.The other thing that I was slightly disappointed with, is the fact that there is only one spring, at the back. Granted, this won't last through preschool like Skip Hop's jumper-to-table (also on our list), but Bounce Bounce Baby becomes a toddler toy table that's useful until about your child's second birthday. You'll save money and space if you skip a stationary jumper and get one that clamps onto a doorframe.