To use a buggy...for a 16 week old....(help please)

[whimsicalmess]

Obviously in normal circumstances I would never even think of it....
However, I live in the top floor flat and there is no elevator.
this means carrying a huge, cumbersome pram up 3 sets of stairs , at least 4 times a day.
Everyday I am limping because I bang myself all the way up and down, I'm hyper mobile too so my joints get a good hammering.
Also its very dangerous one slip and I've broken my neck alone with no-one to help me and don't even want to think what would happen to my baby.
I have a 3 year old who I have too,
I can't leave the pram outside my door, call the midwife esque - because some of my neighbors have dubious behavior and drug habits and it would probably get stolen,
After my second week in a row off limping and the other night I was wincing everytime I moved, urgh.
I just thought sod it! I'm using a buggy. But I know its not appropriate and I am scared of judgement tbh. But they do lay flat?

WIBU to use a buggy?

[Living]

You can get ones which are suitable from birth. But why even use a buggy - sling would be even easier surely

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Techno XT lies flat, is suitable from birth and is a good, strong padded buggy. No one would judge you for that :)

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Depends on the buggy, what's the age recommendation? Have you thought about using a baby carrier or a sling instead?

[Flossbert]

Thirding the sling idea

[wreckedone]

Sling would probably be even easier, but if that's not for you, then use a buggy-lots of them lay completely flat now. And to be fair, at 16wks my lad was sitting up in his, not lying down anyway.

[N0tinmylife]

I wasn't aware buggy's were not appropriate. I used one when DS was tiny, so no I don't think YABU. Why would it be a problem?

[Haberdashery]

I used a lie flat buggy from ten weeks because I was sick to death of the stupid pram. YANBU as long as the buggy is suitable for that age.

[sleepsforwimps2010]

i love my baby jogger city mini! it lies flat so is suitable from birth, folds/ opens with one hand and is really light!
i picked it up from ebay really cheap! and would def recommend.

[AntAndDecFan]

Dd has been in a buggy from that age, a cossato one that lays flat. My pram was far too heavy and it was a nightmare getting it in and out of the car!

She preferred being in the buggy anyway, she could see the world

[EskSmith]

In your situation I'd go with the lightest lie flat buggy you could find. I agree with those who have suggested a sling but understand that they are not for everyone, although perhaps a sling would be helpfuk even if you just use it to carry your baby upstairs, leaving hands free for the buggy & toddler.

Please don't carry the pram up & down with your baby in it :(

[PatriciaHolm]

Buggies are entirely appropriate, loads of people use them from birth!

[whimsicalmess]

It would be a forward facing buggy,like a stick one but the back goes pretty flat.
I thought it was pram all the way until they were like 6 months at least?
, my eldest was in until 5 months he got too big. It does lie flat though, I would put a raincover on and used the top bit as like a peephole.
regarding a sling
he's 16 + pounds now and can be a good hour walk, it wouldn't do my back any good. Plus in colder weather I like the 'added' protection being in something.

[ErikNorseman]

Wtf is wrong with using a buggy? I used a MacLaren from birth, it laid flat and said it was suitable from birth

[GirlOutNumbered]

er.... whats the problem? No way did my son want to lie flat at 16 weeks. I wasnt aware that he was not supposed too.

I would recommend a sling though, then no carrying.

[VisualiseAHorse]

There are loads of buggies that are suitable from birth. I'd buy a coccon/foot muff type thing to keep baby warm, and get a buggy with a 'window' in the hood so you can see the baby easily.

A sling would be even easier - but maybe having hypermobility doesn't work well with a sling? (naive on this subject)

[BabyMakesTheBellyGoRound]

I certainly wouldn't judge you for using a buggy. Go ahead,loads are suitable from birth.

[whimsicalmess]

I must live on a different planet , I see prams everywhere.

I thought like putting a baby in a buggy before 6 months was like a mortal sin!

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this is the sort of model I mean, the back goes down pretty flat.

[whimsicalmess]

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[TiddlyOmPomPom]

I'm hypermobile and have a Baby Jogger City Mini and an Ergo sling - DS is 22mo and I can still take him out for the day in the sling.

I think a lie-flat buggy will be fine, maybe get a sheepskin liner for it as well, DS has been very comfy on his.

[ilovepowerhoop]

I never even had a pram for dd and she went in the lie flat pushchair or in the car seat bit of the travel system.

[whimsicalmess]

where do all you people live! I never see tiny babies in buggies aha.

[BabyMakesTheBellyGoRound]

That looks fine. Are there a lot of eastern European people around you? My polish friends cannot understand using buggies. They say everyone uses a pram until the child can walk reliably.

[Xiaoxiong]

I never had a pram for DS either. Used a BJCM from birth with a fleece cosy (which reclines pretty much flat, I think it's something like 160 degrees?) and a moby wrap moving to a Boba when he got big enough.

It did seem a bit silly that I was worrying about my BJCM reclining flat when the GP was simultaneously telling us to angle the head of the cot/moses basket when he had a runny nose.

[BabyMakesTheBellyGoRound]

Don't forget to strap him in though cause a friend of mine had her few weeks old baby in a stroller,lying flat in foot muff type of thing,forgot to put straps on. Tipped the buggy to get up onto the footpath and baby went sliding out the back. Baby was ok,but my friend was in bits.