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Play yards—updated versions of playpens—are for more than just playing. Play yards can also provide babies with an enclosed place for napping and some can function as a portable changing table, saving you from having to run to the nursery for every diaper change. How necessary is a play yard? You can certainly live without one. But a play yard can fill a need you might not know you have until you start using it.