to just NOT get and in fact be slightly frightened of one particular area of MN??

[BunnyLebowski]

I've never ventured in there out of sheer fear but I've always wondered why there is an entire topic dedicated to......

Pushchairs???

With thread titles including such baffling words as Stokke and pramette and buggysnuggle? Oh and precisely who the hell are Phil and Ted?

It all sounds so elaborate and confusing and....well....utterly pointless.

Aren't they just vehicles in which to transport our loin-fruit from playgroup to Greggs or am I missing summat?

Don't people just buy whatever Travel System is on offer at the start and then (once they've wised up) grab whichever pushchair is 50% off in the Asda Baby Event? (or even better inherit one from a family member)

Or is it just me?

BEcause it's fun, Lissie.

And it's interesting (to me.)

I'm sure you find lots of things interesting that would bore the tits off me, and vice versa.

I didn't buy a buggy. I bought a giant raisin transporter it seems as DD likes to be carried everywhere, gazing down on unpended pack of Organix raisins riding around in splendid majesty.

Now THAT is what needs a thread all of its own.. bloody raisins, squashy spawn of Satan

lightly, that wasnt aimed at you, it was a xpost. im sure youre right. im sure you do enjoy it, and more power to you, i just dont get it.

"No otchayaniye what about nappies/ wipes/ change of clothes/ teether/ dinner once solids start etc..."

I put them in my bag. Today we'll be out to walk to park and playgroup, we'll have lunch out after I've walked her for a nap, getting train to toy museum and will sling her on the way back on and off.

I do this everyday (or my husband) and I've never felt the need for a changing bag or a pram (we'll I've occasionally thought about a pram but never got round to it)

She's just over two now.

And yes, I have a couple of wraps (one gauze when I lived in the tropics) and a german woven and a SSC for my husband (doesn't like wraps). I tend to use that in the winter as I don't like backwrapping over a jacket.

But I've never partaken in the madness that is stash gloating as on babywearer.com. Insane behaviour.

What the hell is a teether? Oh, and regarding changes of clothes, I tend to not take a full change of clothes. But sometimes take spare boots as she's a puddle addict.

They look really complicated, and if I were spending a lot of money I would want to know I wasn't getting a shit one.

Thankfully I have no need of one right now, but you can bet I will spend hours there if I am ever in a position to need a pushchair/buggy/pram (I'd also like to know the difference between the three)

coalition - i used it as you did and found it was great for all that and had added advantage of being easy to deal with on tube/buses. perfect city pushchair imo! different strokes, i guess...

must be smoother pavements where you are... ;)

Agree with you there bunny. It's parallel universe I think

And yes. I fail to see how a buggy could be that interesting. It's like having a whole area devoted to armchairs or irons or something

I don't see mine as any statement (2nd hand) but an important purchase worth researching for the following reasons:

1. practicality
2. how small it folds. Fit in boot and our Victorian terrace?
3. Robust
4. Light
5. Will it last to use for future children too.

I researched our baby carrier too...I'm spending our hard earned cash so why wouldn't I?? I think it'd be sillier not to. I suspect most people on that board are the same, seems a little superior to 'laugh' at them.

As it was I tried few first before deciding on ours (off ebay then back on), went and found 2nd hand version on ebay. I needed to try them as before DD appeared I obviously didn't know what I would need in terms of functionality.

But I see this thread has turned into a discussion of pushchairs too!

I try not to care....but I do find myself having the occasion flash of pushchair envy. Guilty pleasures, and all that.

Oh yes, forgot to add:

I have ended up with a Bugaboo Frog (old version of a Chameleon so £150 immaculate on ebay) and will buy a lightweight small stroller in a few years. Judge away.

I have no interest in researching them more now, but whilst deciding it was important. I think it is very smug to judge others like this, and think it is far more ridiculous to buy without researching.

I tend to use the baby carrier more, but like to have stuff that works for us.

utter nonsense. i carried my sextuplets in a basket on my head and then a wheelbarrow when they got too big. now they are 2 they are big enough to walk 6 miles to the fields where we pick potatoes

PICK the potatoes? Bet you cook them as well. We have to eat them raw out of the ground with our hands behind out backs. And they are 20 miles away.

I've had about 6 buggies for 2dds.

1. Massive mothercare travel system. Hated it, I lived in a 3rd floor flat with no lift. The buggy had to live in the car.

1. Lightweight stroller from toys r us.

1. Replacement stroller after a wheel fell off the first one.

1. Mamas and papas travel system when dd2 was born. Loved it, much lighter than the first, got it second hand for about £50.

1. Double buggy as my plan to use buggy combined with sling/buggy board didn't really work out.

1. Another stroller. Fell apart after 2 years, probably because dd1 insisted on being on the buggy board all the time.

1. Petite star zia. Don't use it much now dds are 4 and 2, but it's light and folds up really small and lies flat so will do if I ever have dc3.

Really wish I'd researched it better to begin with.

Don't have a changing bag though. And am certainly not some consumer zombie or whatever the hideously smug phrase from earlier was.

I spent ages researching my travel system and am so pleased I did. It has EVERYTHING I wanted (huge basket, high/long handle, massive carrycot, pushable with one hand) and nothing has fallen off. In the year that I have been using it, I've only seen one other mom with it (it's Swedish) and it did not cost the same as a new car.

I also own an umbrella fold M&P buggy but that's just for holidays. I spent as much time researching the pushchair as I did our car but totally understand that it must be boring for others - each to their own.

Chuh Cereal, at least you had a basket to put the sextuplets in.....

I don't get change bags either - they just seem like a gimmick-y way to get you parted with your cash. What's wrong with a larger handbag or shoulder bag?

'zackly. I mean, you shove a spare nappy and a bag of wipes into a carrier (which is then used to carry offending nappy elsewhere) I do not need a quilted (wtf is it with the quilting????? Are nappies sensitive little souls who might bang their heads on the sides????)monstrosity dangling off my (plain navy) pram/pushchair.

I did get a hefty sum on ebay for my (quilted) Silver Cross changing back and matching backpack. (yes, backpack, just to make sure I was totally co-ordinated)