I had a video review completed on this swing. I really did. My daughter was in the swing, I was talking about it and showing every angle of the damned thing. I pulled the video off of my camera and realized that I had made two mistakes. One, I used a different video editing tool (should have just used iMovie or Final Cut Express) than I normally use because I had a quad core Windows machine that I wanted to try as a video editing box. Two, I didn’t review the tape before I took the little one out of the swing. Add those two together and I had a choppy clip with terrible audio in which I sound terrible. I know you’re all thinking, “What a lazy punk, but the kid in the swing and record it again!”
Too bad. I mean, I would, but it’s just not worth it.
The Graco Compact Infant Swing just isn’t that great. It does what it is supposed to do. You put your kid in it, turn it on and it rocks them. My wife and I were looking for a secondary swing for our room or the study that we could use to plop the little princess in while we try to get some work done. We already had the mac daddy Fisher-Price Papasan Cradle Swing but instead of spending the $120 on the one that we knew would be great, we went for the $70 model to save a few bucks.
At first glance, the swing seems OK, it’s small, compact and with nothing hanging over top of the baby. Easy in and easy out operation for sure. If your kid is a runt. My daughter is a big girl…not some 30 pound fatty, but 
It does have some perks. It’s small and light, which is nice since we bought it to take from room to room. I’m really trying to think of something else here…
I think that if it was under $40, I wouldn’t be so up in arms about it’s size and quality. At $70 it’s just too much for a mediocre swing.
It does get pretty good reviews on Amazon (I’m guessing by people with normal sized babies) so it may be worth checking out. I’d suggest avoiding it all together though and just go for the Fisher Price model.
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