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Pram decisions for a 2 and 1/2 year old and newborn!

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RoosterRed1 · 04/11/2024 13:23

I guess I’m posting for traffic (sorry!). As above, will have a newborn and a 2.5 year old. I have an uppababy vista so could use that with bassinet and seat then get another seat but it looks so big/heavy and cumbersome although it’s good quality for going over different surfaces etc.

I’ve seen out and about double buggies and they are wide looking but look lighter/easier to manage?

or do I just get a buggy board for the toddler? For context, they don’t really like the pram at the minute and we rarely use it instead using a kind of trike scooter thing I can push them in which won’t be possible with a pram too. But I’ve heard some children want in the buggy all the time when they see the new sibling in it!

what did anyone else do with a similar age gap?

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RoosterRed1 · 04/11/2024 13:39

@Parforthe that sounds like a good idea! Could easily have the sling in the basket if toddler got tired. It’s only be the first six months when baby is in bassinet toddler would have to make do with the buggy board. ive just googled and found one with a fold down seat though so that could work well.

the double buggy seems to cumbersome.

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NoItsStillNighttimeDarling · 04/11/2024 13:38

We just used a buggy board. There were a few times where they were both tired or we'd been out longer than planned etc where I thought 'urgh a double pram would be so handy right now' but nowhere near enough times to have been bothered with the hassle of lugging an enormous pram around all the time when half of it would be mostly empty

Parforthe · 04/11/2024 13:36

Mine have an age gap of almost exactly 2y. I use a bugaboo bee with buggy board. Don’t love the pram as it is, so I’d never have coped with a double! Mainly used the sling for baby when they were little. So sling + pram (toddler napping) or sling + scooter, then pram + buggy board more often as baby got past 1y.

JollyGreenSnake · 04/11/2024 13:28

Buggy board. DS was 2 years 8 months when DD was born. He's stopped sitting in the buggy from about 2.5 years and was quite happy for DD to be in the buggy instead.

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