My sweet niece (10 months old) has been a fan of this baby mobile from day one. From birth, the soothing music calmed her then as she got older, the mobile entertained her. Last week we actually saw her reach up and play with the characters then start the music (caught on baby cam). What a fantastic investment -This one is highly recommended and a keeper.

She sits in her baby bjorn bouncer and watch this mobile for at least 30 mins, giving me some time to chill or do some chores.

I love almost everything about this mobile. If we are using the mobile for soothing then I start it out on nature sounds or classical so hopefully she falls asleep before the more upbeat songs play. There are seven categories of music. If you let it play through it will go to the next category automatically. But if the large button is pushed it will only cycle through the 4 songs in the category it is already in. This didnt bother me before but my daughter now has learned to press that button. She can only choose from 4 songs unless she presses another category button or it plays through to next category. My biggest issue: There is a sleep mode, however, it takes 40 minutes of playing to get to the sleep cycle. This is so irritating!!! My baby has loved this mobile. She is now 9.5 months and wakes up wanting to play in the mornings and would likely fall back asleep or play for awhile. But it's turned off at this point. Rarely does it actually need to play through the 40 minutes! We manually turn it off. I wish there was a sleep button. But there doesn't seem to be anyway to put it in sleep mode yourself. Now I wake up to sounds of my daughter hitting at the mobile but it's not doing anything. The only way is to go in there and turn it on. No point. She will see me and no longer be interested. The only way around this, I figure, is to let it run the whole 40 minute cycle every night. Most nights my baby is asleep before I lay her down and the mobile is not needed to soothe her to sleep. So this could work. But it sure will use the batteries doing this everyday. And then I have to remember not to shut it off. A few tweeks could make this the perfect mobile for the little baby and the big baby. My baby still loves this mobile and I have no regrets. I just hope these mobile makers read the product reviews. The rainforest soother we also have is so awesome with all the individual options for play and a sleep button. You can do lights, sound, motion. Or just one or any combo. I wish it had those options.

Best mobile my son can't sleep without it!

I wish I had listened to the negative reviews. We had the opportunity to try the original Blue version of this mobile from Tiny Love, and I loved it. Since it seems to have been discontinued, I decided to try the Meadow Days version. Our crib has wide edges, so many standard mobiles don't fit. The "screw on through the slats" option of this mobile allowed us to have a mobile that safely attaches to the crib. My husband found it easy to assemble the mobile when it arrived. The music is the best mobile/children's toy music selection I've heard yet: not grating to listen to, doesn't sound like crazed carnival music, and offers a great variety so you aren't reusing the same three songs over and over again. We also love the white noise option as that's what we use to lull the baby to sleep on most nights.

However.

The reviews mentioning the clicking sound and motor sound are 100% accurate. The original Blue version mobile I tried had one figure that clicked rather softly, but the other two were silent. Therefore, I figured that it wouldn't be overly noticeable, even if they all clicked. I was wrong. On this version, all three figures click"” loudly. Though I can't tell if the baby minds, it comes through clearly on the baby monitor, which makes it difficult for me to sleep if we use it at night. I will try the yarn trick, but I'm surprised Tiny Love isn't addressing the issue given how many people complain about it. After a few days, I also noticed that the motor is ridiculously loud and audible over the sounds playing (and, unless we have the monitor turned down, audible over the monitor, too). For such an expensive mobile, I would have expected better quality.

The last unfortunate change to this mobile from the original is the removal of the light from the mobile stem. Although the light remains on the shuffle button on the music box, the one that used to help backlight the figures so you could see them in the dark has been eliminated. Pro: maybe the batteries will last longer, Con: it's hard to see the figures in a dark room even with the nightlight on. Had I not tried the original first, though, I wouldn't have known to miss that feature, so it's a minimal concern for those going straight to the Meadow Days model.

Since I like and will use the music box beyond the life of the mobile, and since it keeps the baby occupied and lulls him to sleep as mobiles are meant to do, I will give the mobile 3 stars, but I'm disappointed.

Update: Increased to 4 stars. The clicking sound softened over time to be only periodically from the heaviest of the figures. My son is big enough now to reach and yank on the animals, so we had to remove them, but he now likes to play with the buttons on the music box, so the versatility continues (just not as a sleep aid!).