Babies see high contrast images first, particularly those in black and white.

This mobile will mesmerize your baby from around 2-3 weeks of age. The 2 levels help your baby learn to focus at different distances, while the motion as the mobile moves in a gentle breeze or to your touch lets baby learn to track moving objects.

How to bring this mobile to life for your baby

Hang it over a changing table. It will help calm your baby through those first changes.

When your hands are full, blow on the mobile to make it move.

As your baby gets older (around 6-8 weeks), attach a soft ribbon to the mobile. At first you can use a cloths peg to loop the mobile around Baby's hand. Soon your baby will learn to grasp the ribbon on her own. The look of wonder on Baby’s face as she learns that moving her arm will move the mobile is indescribable.

If your baby is at that grizzly “I don’t want to sleep, but I don’t want to be awake” stage, try wrapping her and leaving her under the mobile for a few minutes. She will often tune in to the mobile, then slowly drift off to sleep.

Features 

Tested	Not only does it conform to child development research findings, but we’ve gone out in the field and made sure that babies really love it. We first tested this product on our own babies, and then took it into baby health centers to get the expert opinion of a wide range of babies. Several small changes later we have this one.
Battery free	Remember the days before plastic toys and the need for batteries? This mobile moves under baby power, or in a gentle breeze.
Light weight	This is the mobile you can take anywhere as it folds flat, and weighs almost nothing. It is so light you can attach it to the roof of a car or stroller with almost any sort of clip. It is an easy way to make your baby feel at home in a travel crib or other unfamiliar environment.
Green	This mobile is recyclable, and has a low environmental cost of production.
Responsible	No sweat shop labor went into making this product (ok, we confess our children may have helped cut up the string, but we do feed them chocolate in return).
Décor item	This piece of nursery décor is an art work in its own right. There is a link below that will take you to examples of Tina’s mobiles for grown-ups.
Easy to mail	The ideal gift to mail to someone special (or let us do it for you, complete with beautiful gift wrap and a personalized card).
Safe	No sharp edges or choke sized pieces.  Our inks have been tested to ensure that should the mobile end up in tiny hands (and mouths) no harm will come to them.

Assembly

The mobile collapses flat, so you can take it anywhere with you, and comes in a handy storage pouch so it stays in mint condition

All you have to do when you first take it out of the box is cut the string to length (a measuring scale is provided), knot it through the holes, and suspend it.

Click here for information about designer Tina Matthews

Click here to see Tina's mobiles for grown ups

Click here for assembly instructions

Options: Mobile AU$17.99 with card and gift wrap AU$20.00 For gift wrap option: Card message line 1: Card message line 2: Card message line 3:

Better together - Also by Tina Matthews:
Out of the Egg You only think you know the story of the little red hen. A modern, environmental take on the classic children's story. Click for more information	Le petit poussin rouge Also in French and Hebrew. Click for more information