about buggy weight limits?

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I have a 22m old daughter, she is by no means a stonking great big toddler, she looks TINY and wears mostly 18-24m clothes but still fits in a fair bit of 12-18m. She is long and lean, hardly a dot of excess fat or flesh to pinch. She weighs 12.9kg clothed.

She was a late walker and only walked at 19m, she walks well but has nowhere near the stamina or speed to go without a buggy anytime soon, and we don't have a car.

According to her centile she will be 15kg by the time she is 2.5ish, and being a small toddler compared to her peers I'm guessing that some of her friends are already this weight. One little boy I know for a fact is 36lbs as we went to weigh in together.

DD is my (p)fb and I'm not knowledgeable about buggys - when DD hits 15kg what will happen? Is it likely that her buggy will collapse/break? We have a Luna that we use mostly.

Does anyone else find it strange that the buggy weight limit seems so low when in real life I often see 3-4yr olds riding in buggies. Or is my DD just a behemoth of a child?

I'm surprised to learn there is a weight-limit for buggies. IME they do not automatically collapse under the weight of a (chunky) 3 year-old... and introducing a weight-limit appears to be more of a 'get out in case you sue us for it buckling under a 6 year-old' move rather than anything more scientific... Perhaps you could test the theory by placing 20kgs of something in the seat of your buggy and wheeling it around for a bit?

We only managed to kill ours by letting DS (then aged just under 5 and about 20kg) AND DD (just under 2 and 10 kg) ride in it together.

Many many times.

DD liked sitting on DS's knee.

So doubling the weight limit it took about 20+ occasions to make a Maclaren basic Truimph get wobbly wheels.

I doubt the frame is going to collapse when your DD reaches (say) 18kg.

Her weight gain will probably slow down as she gets older too - my DS is 4 and still weighs 15.8kg (although he's a bit of a short arse to be fair). He absolutely refuses to go in his buggy now although he was also a late walker. My Volo manages to withstand his weight very well :)

That's all they will guarantee it up to, dosn't mean it will collapse and ften the same pushairs in USA have higher limits!

My son is 3 and a half and weighs 14kg, so if she really is tiny then her weight will prob slow down anyhow.

Phew! Lol now I sound well paranoid!

Thanks for the reassurance! I will chuck a few bags of sugar in and go for a spin round the block - the neighbours already think I'm bonkers so they won't bat an eye!

My nearly 6 year old quite often goes in our maclaren techno. We've had the buggy about 5 years and he is over 20kg and buggy is still fine!
The rest of the time my younger ds goes in the buggy and ds1 on a buggy board which is supposed to be up to 15kg too and is also fine!
Just means if it does break then you can't get it replaced if you are using it to carry a heavier child, not that it WILL break

It just means thats the very lowest weight it broke in testing so legally they can't claim it will stand up past that. In practice you could push an adult around in most of them if for some odd reason you wanted to.