Lovevery Review The Charmer – 3 to 4 Months

Lovevery is a subscription box designed by experts for your child’s developing brain. Their goal is to help every parent feel confident. Their play products are designed by child development experts and distilled to their simplest, purest purpose: to be exactly what children need at each stage. They kindly sent us this box for review.

I discovered Lovevery when I was pregnant, and received my first box just before Steven was born. I knew I wanted to get him a toy subscription but I didn’t want just any ol’ toy subscription. Lovevery appealed to me for a few reasons – the quality toys, the research that goes into the toy selections, and the amazing information we receive with each box. I learned so much from my first box and refer to the play guide often.

Subscription Details

Each Lovevery subscription box includes perfect play essentials designed by experts, for babies and toddlers. The Lovevery Play Kits subscription offers 8-14 products per each kit. The amount of playthings included vary per stage.

• Wonder-inducing playthings, delivered by stage.
• Receive a box every 2-3 months depending on stage.

Here’s a closer look at our second Lovevery Box – The Charmer. This box is for 3 to 4 months. Our next box will ship in 2 months and it will be for months 5-6.

The Charmer

In months 3 and 4, you will start to see that little person inside emerge. He now recognizes your face – cooing at you, smiling, and delighting everyone he meets.

Play Guide

Ideas for how to play during months 3-4, backed by all the research you don’t have time to read.

This little guide is so handy and extremely useful. I have referred to it often over the last few months. Steven is 3 months old so we have been getting a lot of use out of his first Lovevery box and the Play Guide has helped us a ton. Even though we are now on to his second box I can see myself using the 1-2 month Play Guide for a little while still. It has that much useful info.

Soft Book & Card Set

Your baby’s newborn reflexes are starting to diminish. She’s beginning to coordinate her eyes, hands, and mouth in order to reach, grasp, and taste things. Giving her rich, sensory experiences like the black and white cards, varied textures and sounds in the soft book will help her build foundational connections between seeing and feeling.

Your baby is very interested in more complex high-contrast images, her vision is improving, and she wants more of a challenge. Use the soft book to display the more complex black and white cards while talking to her about what she’s doing and seeing.

How wonderful is this little book! It’s soft, colourful, full of textures and sounds, and it can hold the cards from our first box as well as the new cards we received in our second box. This will be the perfect toy for tummy time, which we are trying to do 4-5 times each day.

Crinkle Bag

With practice your baby will be able to grasp and manipulate objects placed in front of them. Over the next few months, he’ll learn that he can make things happen, that he can produce sounds, movements, and effects by touching and exploring.

Hold the crinkle bag within reach of your baby and move it to make noise – see if he responds by waving his arms or legs in excitement.

Baby Steven is just starting to grasp objects. I have been using the rattle from the first box during our afternoon playtime and he will sometimes hold on to it. He hasn’t quite connected the dots as of yet and isn’t actually aware that he is holding on to something but I’m sure he will soon. This little bag will be easy for him to grasp and I love that it makes noise.

Natural Rubber Teether & Silicone Beaded Teether

As soon as your baby is able to hold things, she’ll want to put them in her mouth. That’s because the nerves in her mouth are more developed than those in any other part of her body right now. Studies show that mouthing objects helps with speech development and also prepares your baby for encountering different food textures.

Steven was in desperate need of some teethers so these arrived at the perfect time. He chews on his little hands often and is starting to bring other objects towards his mouth.

Wooden Rattle

Sometimes at 3-4 months your baby will start to look for and track the sources of sounds he hears. He’ll recognize the sound of his rattle, for instance, even when there are other noises in the background. Understanding that objects (and people) can make sounds is an early lesson in cause and effect.

Steven is just starting to track sounds. I notice it when I use the rattle from the first box so it will be nice to have another rattle for him to play with. I may keep one in our diaper bag and one in his play box.

Framed Mirror

Mirror gazing is a favorite activity for 3 to 4 month olds. Your baby doesn’t yet recognize her own face but she gets to see a fascination (and adorable) human looking back at her.

We often hold Steven in front of the large mirror in our hallway so I’m really happy to have received this smaller one in our box. I will lean it against the wall in front of him when we do tummy time.

Rolling Bell

When your baby plays with the rolling bell, he discovers new ways to coordinate his senses: the feel of the wood when he’s grasping it, the sound it makes when you or he rolls or shakes it, and how it moves when it’s rolling along.

Who knew there were so many learning opportunities in one little toy – touch, sound and movement. I have a feeling he is going to love this one.

Hand to Hand Discs

Passing an object between two hands is a step babies work towards for months. Getting it right involves coordination across the centre of her body. Skilled hand-to-hand transfer won’t happen until between 5 and 7 months. It’s the basis for later motions such as dressing herself, eating with utensils, holding crayons, and running.

Even though we are a couple months away from hand-to-hand transfer I love that we received a toy to help us get started on it ahead of time. Can I also say how much I am loving the wooden toys?

Talking Topics

Talking with your baby is one of the very best things you can do to help build his developing brain. The more you talk with him, the more he understands, and the more he’ll eventually learn to say by himself. Hearing lots of words early is proven to expand babies’ mental capacities.

In our last box we received a lullaby book and this month we received a book to help us become more comfortable talking to baby. Luckily, this is one thing I have no trouble with. I talk little Steven’s ear off all day long. I ask him questions, tell him what we are doing, make comments about his actions, and so on and so on.

Month Stickers

Every stage is important for your baby, and the first year goes by faster than you might think. Month by month, these stickers will help you record and share your baby’s first year.

This is a really cute way to document baby as he/she grows.

Lovevery Review The Charmer – Final Thoughts

I was so impressed with our first Lovevery box that I had no doubts I would love our second box just as much….if not more. Lovevery is so much more than a box of toys. It’s a wonderful resource and a learning experience for both baby and Mom. I can’t even tell you how much my first Lovevery box taught me. It’s really nice to have a book to guide you through baby’s developmental milestones as he/she grows. I love that we learn about each stage baby goes through and how to play with baby during each of those stages. Lovevery really does make me feel more confident as a parent and it really is exactly what Steven needs for each stage of his development.

-AYOB Sarah