to think it's weird of my friend to be so het up about pram choice when she is so laissez faire about everything else?

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I have a friend who is very keen to tell women that going back to work after having children is very important, that you shouldn't get misty eyed about spending time with your children etc etc.

She advocates c-sections and formula feeding (both of which I've done myself, so believe me, this is not a criticism of her choices).

She very much thinks it's important to be your own person after children and to make yourself happy and put yourself whenever you feel the need to.

So far, so whatever.

I don't know why, but I just find it weird that she is also a screeeeeeaming pram hun. Specifically, for any kind of Bugaboo. The BILE that spits forth from her mouth about using any old stroller rather than a decent, pricey pram just amuses me.

I don't know why I find it incongruous, but I do.

Fell in love with it... Not live with it...

Bloody iPhone!

I'm not a 'pram hun' (never heard that phrase before, but like it!) having used a gifted Quinny at the beginning, and when I had to give that back, a gifted Graco.

However, I loooove slings. I probably own 5 and DS is 7 months old! I go to a sling library where I get to hire different slings for a month for £6. Can you imagine something like that for pram huns?

What I don't get is where you store several prams. My one pram is knocking about in my kitchen and does my nut in, I couldn't deal with any more!

So cone on, what do you lot think when you see my Graco? I like it as it has a big basket, but don't like the dull grey colour - yawn! It looks something like this

Graco are good but some are a bit clunky and a tit to store

Bugaboo appeal to me because they are, quite simply, fantastically engineered. That's why I like playing with them.

I also have lots of slings but dd is now 18 months so I am mostly using my bee+ and toddler hawk.

Love the Toddler hawk. have you tried one yet?

I have a babyhawk.... SoOooooo pretty. :-)

Love 'em, I have the skulls in red

I think I must be missing something. I bought a Bugaboo Bee and I was shocked at how crappy and badly engineered it was. I could only fold it with two hands, the mechanism always jammed, bits fell off it constantly and my DD seemed way too big for it at only eight months.

All in all, a MASSIVE waste of money.

Thingie - the bugaboo chameleon is the one

For those prices (600quid +? [hshock]) they ought to be Gold-Plated not just "good on snow".
I have 4 DC, walk miles every day, have never spent more than 100 quid for a single pram/pushchair (and that one lasted 5 yrs, too).

Pram hunnery replaces handbag/shoe spotting when executives are on mat leave. Fact.
For example the new Stokke Xplory Evo is worth one and a half Mulberry handbags, or one Hermes bag. Or two pairs of basic Louboutins.
OP, please tell your friend, the Bugaboo range is all a bit Radley, IMO!

I didn't get the bee, only the bee+ I don't buy first models of things if I can help it, as I like too wait till any glitches are resolved.

My husband says pram hunnery is in inverse proportion to the level of education of the purchaser.

BagofHolly - what would the ICandy be? Am thinking something expensive but too flash to be chic - maybe Versace?

Please bear in mind, pram huunery in whole new world for me.........but think I could get in to it :)

Ochayanie

I'd disappoint him

I don't understand why the OP describes her friend as "laissez faire" and "laid back" at all. She sounds very bossy and prescriptive to me, being "very keen" to tell other women her views and "advocating" for c-sections and formula feeding.

Being down on other women who make different pram choices to her ("spitting bile" ) seems entirely consistent with the rest of her behaviour.

Best off-roader in the world is Mountain Buggy-you wont be disappointed.

Ochaynie-I'd disappoint him too, pram hunnery comes in all shapes and sizes.

I loved my Bugaboo's (yup I had 3!!) but I got to be honest, I'm madly in love with my MB urban, and the Bugaboo is nowhere near as good off-road. I had 2 xplorys (one v2, one evo) loved the idea-in reality they are rickety, and I wouldnt buy again.

icooksocks the Terrain would be perfect for field archery - but £500??? As I said, I paid about £40 for ours. That was for a brand new one. OK, so it was 9 years ago, but inflation hasn't gone that high, surely?

I didn't think I'd be at all pram-hunny but ended up with an Icandy Peach. Not for aesthetic reasons, I was inversely snobby about Bugaboos and other ones just didn't seem as solidly built. Plus we got car seat, and effectively a moses basket thrown in the deal.

But exactly as predicted, DS was carted around in a Maclaren from 13mo old. The Icandy is in the loft.

In my mind, I'm not sure why, I would associate someone advocating C-sections and FF with pram-hunnery.

I paid £200 for my 2nd hand Urban, andI got to be honest, think I overpaid compared to the prices of the ones of a similar age on Ebay. I was just to impatient to wait!! I would buy a 2nd hand Terrain, because once they are 2nd hand they hold thier value iygwim. You wouldnt lose on it. I usually buy 2nd hand anyway, more value for money.