Baby Swings

Baby swings are one of the things that a baby really likes them or they don't. Luke really liked his swing before he was a month old. He had a hand me down swing from Levi, but usually you expect swings to last a while. I guess with Luke it ended a little different. He used the swing until he was about 2 or 3 months old, and then the motor went out. I thought we didn't want the big expense of paying for another when he was going to be our last baby. I sent out an e-mail to my friends hoping I could just borrow a swing for a couple of months until he didn't want to use the swing anymore. Well, we ended up borrowing the same brand and type of swing that Luke had before. I thought he would really love it because it was the same kind he had gotten used to. Well, it was no match for Luke. The swing lasted for only about a month, and then the motor went out on it too. Then Luke was without a swing again. There was another friend of mine who wanted to just get rid of their swing. I felt better about that because of Luke's track record. This swing was an older model, and about 8 years old. It worked great, and he liked it, but not as much as the other swings. But I thought he would probably get over it. The third swing lasted a little longer than the past two. It's motor kept running for about three months. It too slowly died on us, and now every night Luke does not go to sleep very well until we manually push him in the swing that has the motor out. I keep thinking he can't want to keep going the swing forever. But who is smarter? The baby who whines until he is put in the swing? or the parent who manually pushes the swing without a working motor?