To think my Dad was being totally reckless when he took DS upstairs in our local department store via the....

[DollyDaisy]

escalator? DS is 8 months old and was in his pram at the time!

I was furious as thought Dad was following me to the store's lift. But apparently it was quicker to take the direct route and he just wedged the bugaboo onto the escalator and up they went.

Mum was horrified too.....but the DH couldn't see the problem either. Or are all men in my family just totally clueless?

Going down , I would balance it on the back wheels (tipped)

Going up the same.

I understand accidents can happen , its too dreadful to even imagine.

But I still think its rare...and we don't know all the facts about how these accidents happened. How the prams were anchored for example.

I go up escalators backwards and down them forwards, both times with back wheels on the step, all the time bricking it. In London there really is often no alternative. I wish there were.

Car accidents are 'rare' in comparison to the number of journeys people make in cars every day. I've never been involved in one in my life - neither has dh. I wouldn't go out without the car seat though.
If you can easily avoid even a small chance of serious harm why wouldn't you?

Never done it.

I live in London and manage fine in lifts. If something did happen I'd soon regret it- I'm amazed how many people are fine with this TBH!

If you live in London you can't go anywhere without using the tube - lots of massively, outrageously dangerous escalators there! You just have to think it through. Forwards up, backwards down!

YABU.

Just watched the video Pickle and that's exactly what I saw! But the baby WAS in the pushchair and the escalator was packed and no-one had anywhere to go except on top of each other.

olgaga.... buses?

So do all of you who think that escalators/buggies are fine not put your kids in car seats? Or fit stair gates? I mean, accidents happen anywhere....

Everything in life is a risk, and most probabilities - including escalator accidents - are very, very low and the penalties small. Cars are higher risk and the penalties can be high so it is sensible to prioritise that, ditto an unsecured choked falling down stairs.

By the time you are worrying about escalators you are in the realms of death by carpet tile slip etc - very, very small.

if you can't manage to get yourself and a buggy on and off an escalator without maiming yourselves and/or others, you're a dimwit.

and no, I don't have stair gates, or plug covers, or 3 million locks around my house to stop children getting in anywhere. I use the handy package that most parents have since time immemorial...common sense and a couple of brain cells to rub together.

OK so why do you think the warnings are on the side of escalators and not carpet tiles? Some kind of conspiracy?
On what basis do you say that the penalties are small? The baby I saw injured was bleeding profusely from their head and taken away in an ambulance.

For the same reason there are instructions on toothpicks maybe? The world is fullof dimwits.

You know, you are right NVX. Round us up, in our girly lifts and cowering behind our gates and LARN us!

I did it with my ds but I went up and the pram stayed behind. I almost tipped him out - probably should have pushed the pram on first? I won't do it again and anyway most that I have seen do have signs saying not to.

In my view you are more dim if you see a sign warning you that taking your pushchair somewhere is dangerous and you just shrug and go ahead anyway because, of course, you are far too intelligent to have an accident

If I was on my own I often used the lift. DH very rarely did, more likely to be a weekend and busy.
We had a very robust, big wheeled mountain buggy, it bounced on and off escalators like a charm. Lay back canvas hammock seat so even a toddler couldn't really push against anything to over balance it.
It was a total pain in busy lifts. It was one of the very first 3 wheeled ones. It was very long and the front foot rest was very low. Someone was far more likely to step back, trip over it and sit on the baby than DH was likely to let it roll down an escalator.

thankyou pickle for the voice of sanity, never in a million fuckin pickled years would I risk my child's life by putting it on an escalator to buy some shanty pants!

But startail if someone sat on your baby in a lift that wouldn't mean score of other people would be forced down a moving escalator or that the pram would flip over.

Nope, people in wheelchairs tend to find the tube fairly inhospitable. There are some lifts / stations with street level platforms and these are marked on the map but they are few and far between and probably nowhere near ones start / finish point.

Just been looking on the London Underground website now. Apparently they are making more stations accessible but in the meantime they insist you fold your wheelchair before getting on the escalator

I do this all the time with my bugaboo from and have done it with all 3 dc in it and 2 of them on the buggyboard as well. Fine with a bugaboo imo

Well I prefer to take my iCandy in the lift I don't have an iCandy

frog sorry

I did it once and regret it. The front wheel locked or got stuck as I tried to get off the down escalator. I had to quickly spin the (maclaren) buggy around and yank it off. It was really scary.

I wasn't after the model . Just that further up someone said the OP was a stealth boast about having a Bugaboo.