What is the best solution for battery operated Baby Items ?
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at
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This will only ratchet up as you enter the world of children’s toys. I recommend bulk packs of middling-to-decent brands of batteries from a store like Costco, stored in an easily accessible drawer in the same place as a couple of the small screwdrivers you need to open the battery compartments…
Rechargeables have never lasted long enough for me to make the hassle worth it.
The only thing I had to change the batteries in was the swing. Everything else lasted. I would just buy disposables.
I would invest in the rechargable batteries because they baby items tend to go through batteries really fast. It’s more expensive up front but in the long run you spend less.
well for some items you need different sized batteries. so a rechargeable one would only work for AAs.
i just bought a huge pack of AAs because you always need those and a small pack for the things that needed a different size.
my swing was very good on batteries.
good luck and congrats!
My daughter is six months old and we haven’t really gone thru too many batteries just yet. Her swing and monitor have an AC adapter so that really helps. The lighted crib mobile still have the original batteries. For a while we were changing the battery in her bouncy seat about twice a month. I just bought the value sized off brand of batteries and they seem to work really well. Good luck!
it would probably be easiest to buy disposable ones because most of those things, the batteries last quite some time and you’ll hardly have to change the batteries, rechargeable batteries are just too much trouble.
The rechargeable ones aren’t as reliable and take forever to recharge, the recharger will run you quite a bit. Just get a huge pack of disposable ones.
We’ve been buying them as we go but now that our daughter is nine months old, we’re seriously considering rechargable batteries.
Mind you, it’s not such a bad thing when batteries run out
I would by disposable any good brand name the only batteries i have changed where in my sons swing and his bouncer and batteries go in everything he has pretty much and each item is going to be a different size wouldn’t bother with the rechargeable ones!!!
I have the same problem with my sons toys I finally just bought some rechargeables becouse his night time music and lights mobile is his favorite thing at bedtime and I was buying a pack of batteries every two weeks. It gets expensive after a while. Now when they get low I charge them during the day and at bedtime they are ready.
I have noticed that sometimes our rechargeable ones don’t work in some of the toys then we put disposables in and whala it works..
I love rechargeables; however, i found that after a while they do not hold their charge. They also don’t come in C’s which is what so many of my baby items take.
The best buy is if you belong to sams club or cosco and buy them in the bulk packages.
Honestly, decide what really needs batteries and what doesn’t. The things that you don’t have to have turned on, leave them battery-less. How does a pack’n'play need batteries? Or a crib mobile, what happened to the wind up kind? Anyway, rechargeable ones don’t keep their charge after many recharges, are more expensive, and you have to wait for the recharge. Stock up on cheap disposables, generic store brands often work just as well if not better than brand name, in a variety of sizes.