This is probably done to the dogs but I’ve emailed our bus company for measurements and they told me to phone each morning, like that’ll help me buy a pram that’ll fit 
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Next year I’ll have two under 1, yes I’m insane no it really wasn’t planned and no I’ll never make direct eye contact with a man again since I’m apparently super fertile after struggling with ds.
I rely on public transport, a lot, I can’t drive and dm has a tiny car that doesn’t even fit my single pram, so I’m up a creek with no paddle for lifts.
I really don’t want a tandem with the baby in the basket look.. I wouldn’t want to stare at my dsis’s rear end for possibly two years of my life. And I’m highly unlikely to be out with one until ds is in nursery or walking far enough and not napping (were 2miles each way from the shop)
I need a double that fits through a regular bus, no back doors, just a wheelchair and a pram space, id love a side by side that can parent face, with a carrycot for tiny and ds can pick n choose his outlook. I do love the bugaboo donkey.. but i don’t know if it fits, and I certainly won’t manage to take a baby out to hold while I reduce it for the journey, assuming ds won’t be reliably mobile at 10months when I’m induced.
I’ve looked at the mountain buggy online, can’t seem to find a shop that stocks it to actually get a feel for it though. Again pushing it for roughly 5miles a day it needs to be a war horse.
I’ll try and add a picture of our buses interiors if it helps. But double prams and buses? What’s the best suggestions?
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Lunafortheloveogod · 14/07/2019 13:10
I’d second the idea of sling and single but I think you need to get on board with the idea of the modern tandem styles as side by sides are just going to be too cumbersome.
Congratulations on your pregnancy 
I had two under 2yo in a side by side Maclaren which served us fine on public transport. But, important points to note: no parent facing (but from usable from birth), lighter than other doubles (but still heavier than our single, understandably), relatively easy to fold but no one hand fold.
Big issue - width. The Maclaren was one of the least wide (I think saying ‘narrow’ would be pushing it 
) and much shorter (from back to door) so didn’t jut our lots from the space on a bus or train. I wouldn’t be confident boarding a bus at the front, we used to get on at the back, however your aisles may be wider given there’s only the one entrance and must be wide enough for a wheelchair I would assume. However the larger Bugaboos like the Donkey are massive (compared to something like a single and carrier or simpler side by sides or inlines), and I can’t imagine getting one on any bus easily (especially navigating an aisle, even if it’s wide).
Also, it sounds like you are much further out from amenities. We could walk to a lot of places easily so were only contending with buses occasionally, and also had a very accessible train nearby. If you’re using buses a lot I think it will be trickier. Like others have mentioned, a wheelchair user may need to board and will take priority, or when the bus arrives there may already be a pram or wheelchair on board and you may not fit especially with a side by side.
Like others have mentioned, we often used a sling and lightweight stroller - if we stopped somewhere, DC1 could sit in a high chair and DC2 in the stroller - then later on when DC1 wasn’t napping and was walking more we had DC2 in the stroller and DC1 on a buggy board. This was by far the easier approach and much more flexible for public transport, around shops etc. We got the side by side because we did a lot of walking without needing public transport or shops, eg to big parks, so for the time that DC1 wasn’t quite ready to drop naps or stand/walk all day but DC2 was getting bigger and I didn’t want to carry all day the side by side was useful. We probably used it for about 6-9 months for that specific time period, but still used the sling and stroller option too. The Maclaren was relatively affordable (about £215 at the time IIRC).
We use the buses to pretty much go anywhere that isn’t a co op and most are an hour of a journey, hence the collapsing it down and keeping it steady with two kids being beyond difficult.
I’ve tried a sling/ ring,wrap and carrier with ds but I’m hyper mobile so at 10lbs I can’t even make it to the shop and back with him or sit with it for the hour on the bus. We’re really rural.
If a wheelchair gets on we get off, we do that already with prams as there’s literally no where to store a folded pram on the bus even a single. Unless it’s a tiny holiday buggy or umbrella fold and it’s not busy.
The isles wide enough for a standard wheelchair but I’ve not a clue how big a standard chair is 
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The icandys on my list but I’m not keen incase ds doesn’t want to face out yet.. he’s already a clingy little dude and likes company
I’ll add the others to my looking list 😂
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