Hey!

We have the FP rainforst cradle swing and it is perfect, A friend loaned me another one to take to work that just rocked back and forth another FP one with a teddy and it went sooo fast, we ended up poping her in it and not turning it on. The Rainforest cradle swing is slower and there is a range of speed settings, which is important and also the option to turn the seat so it swings side to side or front to back. Some days DD would prefer one way over another.

Batteries last quite a while, but it would depend on how often you use it, and when you are also playing the sounds and making the animals move it would use up more batteries, but we only changed ours a couple of times a we got heaps of use out of it as DD was only small