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Infant gyms, floor gyms, activity gyms, play gyms, playmats...
Are these just distinct techniques of describing the identical point?



Nicely, the initial four are all pretty much interchangeable.
A single manufacturer could prefer a single phrase over yet another, but
there is nothing to actually set a floor fitness center
apart from an activity health club. Play mats, however, are some thing else.
It's generally fairly easy to inform a play mat from
a play gym. That mentioned, you'll find even some manufacturers who, perhaps deliberately,
muddy the waters and use play fitness center to describe what's basically a play mat.
And vice versa. So what precisely may be the distinction?

A safe location for infant to play

Let's start by recognizing that playmats and play gyms each meet the same fundamental require.
They provide a clean, safe, soft surface for your child to lie on or play on.

Playmats comes in two primary forms. The padded fabric variety and
also the interlocking foam tiles type. Many are variations on a theme, but
some actually stand out as special. 1 of these will be the K's
Youngsters Huge & Huge Cushions and Playmat, which is a padded fabric mat with
detachable sausage-shaped cushions that create a protective barrier around the edge of
the mat. But overall, the key choice is between a fabric mat and a tiled play area.


Padded fabric mats

The padded playmat comes in a surprising range of designs.
Rectangular, circular, square, oval... even elephant- and giraffe-shaped.
Some are small enough to fold up and put in a bag. Others are as large as baby's bed covers.
Some play mats are absolutely nothing more than a patterned piece of
cushioned fabric for infant to lie on. Others have strategically placed pads for support or add-ons for recreation, exploration and learning.


On the whole, fabric mats are most suited to young babies.
But some are designed to adapt as child grows. The K's Youngsters Large & Big
Cushions and Playmat does exactly that: the mat neatly converts into
a mini sofa or obstacle course.

Interlocking foam tiles

Foam tile play mats usually come in packs.

You can buy as few as nine or you can cover an entire floor.

You can move them from room to room or leave them in location indefinitely.

And you can add to your collection as baby gets more mobile.



Foam tiles are all quite similar in form but they come with all kinds of designs - numbers and letters
are among the most popular. Some of the more sophisticated tiled mats
have developmental toys and activities built in. Lights,
textures, sounds, plenty of things to keep tiny hands and minds engaged.


So what's a play health club? The primary distinction between a child health club and a playmat is that the gym has dangling toys.
That's an oversimplication, but when you look at a mat next to
a floor health club, you can see that a mat is flat but a fitness
center has crossover arches with a number of hanging toys.


Manufacturers like to think that their gyms stimulate baby's senses and encourage development.
They may be right. But this kind of workout is probably not really a whole lot different from any other opportunity child has to watch, listen and touch.
That said, they are pretty cool and when my sister offered
to buy one for me and our child boy, I wasn't going to say no.
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