To think Stokke pushchairs look ridiculous?

[olimpia]

Honestly I turn around whenever I see one. The futuristic look is quite ridiculous and they look like a heap of cheap plastic.
Can't imagine why anyone would spend £800 to buy one!

Well I agree they are weird looking.

But I have one and I love it.

Baby high up so you can have a nice chat.

Good for tall persons such as myself who don't want to be kneeing their baby in the face.

You can use it as a highchair.

Easy to get up stairs.

Narrow base so easy to get around shops and public transport.

Good shopping bag which extends up and also unclips so you can unpack shopping while baby is sleeping.

No need to pay £800 for one, you've got to shop around!

I don't like

I have a vintage, coach built Silver Cross which DH haaates with a passion and a nippy Quinny which is great

Do kids really mind being bumped round a bit though? My DDs both loved going down a stone footpath being bumped up and down in their Maclaren Quest, making an "Aye aye aye aye!" noise. When they were very little they had a pram though.

Marysbeard you're right. It's long been my theory that prams with excellent suspension are foolish and babies need a good jiggle about. And in this regard the Stokke doesn't disappoint. On slightly uneven ground it's highly unstable, which my boys seem to like!

yanbu... like the highchairs though

I have had two of these, one for each dc. They are brilliant!! I loved talking to my kids as we walked and they were at my level. I am short and found the adjustable handle brilliant. YABU ps I never paid full price for mine...I got ex display models for much cheaper!

I used to want one of these with my pfb. Couldn't justify the cost though. And they do look a bit odd.

I know three people who had them, all of them had switched to a bog standard Maclaren or a Baby Jogger City Mini by the time the babies were 6-8 months.

Can I just ask? Which prams are like babies in baking trays?

Baking trays? What do you mean?

I don't know what make they are and if I was at home I'd link but I'm on my phone.

About 3 years ago I saw an absolute rash of these prams. Designed for newborns rather than carrycot style with actual sides the baby was lay on what can only be described as a baking tray. Completely flat, no sides. The lack of protection just made me feel quite queasy. I presume (I hope) that the baby was strapped in in some way. No cosy enclosed comfort just a baking tray on wheels.

I'm sure they're good quality they'd better be considering the extortionate price tag and have lots of pluses BUT....they look so odd and the parents do foolish! Like someone here said "display stands for babies". Exactly that!

They are stylish and innovative imo. They just look like a seat on wheels like most buggies.

And of course the children/babies are strapped in.

Not sure why a parent would look "foolish" pushing a buggy. That's a mean thing to say.

I don't like anyone being mean about other parents' choices. But as a total pram hun, I do have trouble understanding the love some have for the Xplory.

I don't like the design. I don't like the idea of a child being so high off the ground anywhere there is concrete around it...not a baby-sized child anyway.

I'm sure it's very stable (even if it doesn't look it somehow) but if something did make it fall over it wouldn't be great.

I also think Stokke are VASTly overpriced in all their nursery equipment - see the 'keep' (shelving unit) and the sleepi, which converts (apparently) into a desk. (so you don't need to buy a desk for your two year old)

Saying that the furniture element is very attractive - but with the specialised accessories you need (oval sheets, oval mattress etc etc) it does feel like a bit of a confidence trick for parents who want that little bit extra.

I wouldn't give them any money.

I also have trouble with the bugabooo bee for similar reasons - it has no sides. Great for your older baby/toddler but the woman in the shop trying to get me to buy one said you need to buy/use something WITH sides on top of it, to actually stop your child falling off the sides. Some kind of cocoon I think.

Anyway I like prams that have proper sides so all the bottles/dummies/toys/crap gets stuck somewhere you can retrieve it rather than falling off onto the pavement unnoticed.

I love the Bee folded - it does look like a little bee! - but as a pram I think it resembles a wheelchair. Which is nothing against wheelchairs but still. It's not beautiful.

I like the Cameleon though it is flimsy when you have a steep kerb to negotiate. And also overpriced. At least it looks quite pretty.

What is the Stokke like to push? Has anyone said? It looks like it would be counterintuitive, from an outside perspective. I could be very wrong.

People who use 'talk to baby line' are a marketing mans wet dream, You can talk to a baby in any pushchair/pram. Also car fume don't stay at low level you know.

Winkywinkola- the comment I made wasn't referring to the Stokke. I was answering someone up thread about a different pram I like the Stokke as I also mentioned up thread.

The comment about being strapped in.

I have to admit though in the ugliness stakes, to just having bought a Teutonia Mistral S.

They look fairly terrible, but they're actually brilliant. I got it new but ex-benchmark testing so it's probably been knackered on a conveyor belt and bashed with hammers and so on but it seems alright. £500 worth of German engineering for £85 of your English pounds. Vorsprung Durch technik

Oh it sounds like I meant the Bugaboo bee then. A newborn precariously lay on what amounts to a baking tray?

I wondered if you meant the Bee.

I never realised it required something special to keep babies from falling off, till the other day.

That's just silly. She said it like you don't have to buy the extra thing, but actually you'll feel totally obliged to iyswim

Flighty stokes are brilliant to push. You can't take it off road though, it's very much a city or town pushchair. I have never pushed anything so easily in my life, with one hand if needed.