Cosco Playard, Born to be Wild review

Well Seth is breastfed, so he was a co-sleeper with us for quite a few months. But around 5 months my hubby was wanting "our" bed back. So off to find a new bed for baby Seth, we don't really have a lot of room in our bedroom and we are not quite ready to move him in with his brothers yet. So we had to find something smaller than a crib but bigger than his bassinet(he used maybe one time). A trip to the Walmart baby section was in store.  And wah lah, there were the pack in plays. They were just about the perfect size for our little man. So we picked out the Cosco Playard, Born To Be Wild. It was only $36.63 which was a great price, I had been looking on classified sites earlier that day to see if there were any gently used pack and plays or cribs and they wanted at least $50 or more for all of the used ones. Plus you can't beat the jungle theme(I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE elephants!). So we bought it and brought it home, got to the front porch and decided to try it out. Was pretty easy to remove from the box, and there really wasn't much to the set up. Just unstrap the Velcro from the padding part and then pull up on the middle handle, then pull in the middle of each side to secure the side bars(which used to be extremely hard) guess they have improved the clasp things since the last baby *YAY*. Then all that was left was to put the padding part inside and it was all ready for baby. So in goes Seth, who has no idea what to think of the new contraption, but soon starts to explore, pressing his baby face against the edges and looking out at mommy and daddy, giggling cause he can see us. So I would say that the Cosco Playard was a good investment. It is a very basic play yard, no storage pockets, or changing tables, or extra doodads, but for what it is, it is very good. I would recommend it to anyone who is just looking for a simple basic pack and play. Or for a temporary sleeping unit.

See very basic, but it has elephants!!