We got the Fisher Price Rainforest swing (the large version) it was the best investment for us and we wish we had gotten it earlier But the great thing about ours is that you could change the direction it swings, and there are days when Nakita will only wish to swing back and forth and other days side to side, but the preference is side to side for her.

But we have a second swing (at my office) it goes back and forth, it is a friends whose little boy hated it and just screamed in it, it only goes back and forth and the seat doesn't go as flat as the FPR one does and Nakita doen't like it as much. But each baby is different.

But for my sanity it has been amazing!