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To put a 3 month old in a forward facing pushchair?

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Softlysoftly · 28/08/2012 23:41

Ok before you all jump on me it fully reclines but I'm a bit about options as I've seen shock and horror on here about moving infants into pushchairs too soon!

Going on holiday next week and we are having car room issues with packing for DD1 (2), DD2 (13wks) and two adults plus fishing gear and a bike for DD1s birthday which is while we are away.

We have a bugaboo which we are currently using but is vair bulky and we have a city mini which we got for when DD1 was older. We can't fit in the bugaboo base and pram top and a Moses basket and a bike so my options are:

1 - take bugaboo base and carseat adapters but that means she spends all our "out" time in the carseat which is bad for the spine? Not seen the research?!

2 - take the base and pram top and she has to sleep in that leaving the Moses at home, but she hates the pram and has only just started sleeping more than45 minutes in her Moses basket, could make for a nightmare.

3 - take the baby jogger, fully recline it flat with blanket under her and head support nicked from a bouncy chair, it does say for newborns (as long as you don't actually jog not a concern ) but is forward facing and the straps will be loose.

4 - take bugaboo base and top and moses leave DD1s bike out, but feels very mean"Happy birthday heres a pic of your bike it stayed at home" :(

Help with my probably horribly over complicating it for myself dilemma (am blaming sleep deprivation).

OP posts:

Wigglewoo · 29/08/2012 07:50

I have never heard of ff pushchairs being an issue.

I think its about getting parents to spend more money on an expensive pram to be honest. Most of the cheaper models from. Birth all face forwards. I've never heard ofa child being late to speak because of a buggy - they would be banned if it was that much of an issue.

NellyBluth · 29/08/2012 08:01

Definitely think it is a cost issue. An all singing, all dancing forward facing Maclaren that is suitable from birth costs a lot less than prams and travel systems!

Bellyjaby · 29/08/2012 08:16

Now dc2 is incoming we've swapped our buggy for an iCandy pear. Both dc will face outwards on that (I know it's flippable, but I'd rather have baby near me and carrycot not in dd's face or dd able to kick carrycot). I'm obviously a cruel mother!

Moominsarescary · 29/08/2012 08:19

Take the forward facing, I don't think ds2 was ever facing me and he's fine.

marshmallowpies · 29/08/2012 08:28

We had the city jogger from birth, initially using adapters so the car seat could be clipped to it and be parent-facing. That lasted about 3 weeks I think, then she was flat inside it instead. Am sure yours will be fine flat inside the jogger too.

Never heard about head huggers, though, it didn't come up as an essential item to purchase like the raincover/footmuff did, this is the first time I've heard them mentioned - eek!

NellyBluth · 29/08/2012 08:33

I doubt head huggers are essential! I definitely don't think you need them if they are lying flat, but even at 3mo DD wanted to sit pretty upright, in which case the head hugger was brilliant.

Molehillmountain · 29/08/2012 08:35

We have a bugaboo and always used the carry cot instead of a Moses basket. I'd take the bugaboo and leave the Moses basket.

rogersmellyonthetelly · 29/08/2012 08:45

I would take the bugaboo. If you take all the wheels off, the bumper bar an the plastic inserts out of the carry cot it folds down almost flat. I think on a par with the bjcm, maybe slightly deeper, longer but narrower iyswim.
I wouldn't use a ff pushchair for a tiny baby when I had a proper lay flat carrycot available to use, I would fit it in somehow.

somewherewest · 29/08/2012 08:46

What are you doing putting your baby in any kind of artificial conveyance? You should carry them to Tesco strapped to your back like they do in Africa...otherwise you will not bond and they will be Scarred For Life. True Fact!

Seriously DS (9 months) has been forward facing from birth. He loves looking around and is bright, lively, sociable and very verbal for his age [stealth boast . In hindsight I might get a parent-facing thing for the first few months for a second baby, but that would be for my sake not theirs.

SuoceraBlues · 29/08/2012 08:50

I would go with whatever baby is most likely not to scream her head of in and has straps that fit correctly.

My "baby" is 12 now, so the forward facing issue is going over my head. He loved forward facing, when we moved him over to the pushchair and he could look at the world he stopped yelling his head off. Not so much with the first one for newborns that was facing me.

Perhaps I should have put make up on and not scared the poor child to death with my wan, haggard face ?

Mind you, had the little bugger slept at all, ever, in the first six YEARS, my visog might have been a tad less horrifying to behold.

Moominsarescary · 29/08/2012 08:52

I think at that age I spent most of my time looking down on a sleeping ds3 anyway, you can buy head huggers from halfords and Argos

lazylula · 29/08/2012 08:55

We havE a Maclaren techno which we have used from birth for all three of ours as the car buggy as the silvercross is too a bulky to keep putting in the car. We went away for a week when dd was 3 months old and she was in that for the whole week, it doesn't seem to have done her any harm. Ai like her rear facing most of the time, but that is my preference not for any developmental reason. I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

saltnpepashere · 29/08/2012 08:59

Do NOT bring the Baby Jogger. If you put your DD forward facing for a whole week you will totally mess her up for life and she wont say her first word until she is 17. The stress that she will suffer from laying in a perfectly comfortable but forward facing buggy will stay with her forever.

Fresh01 · 29/08/2012 09:03

We have taken our Bugaboo on many trips. Either as said above take off wheels and support rods for carrycot and it will lie fairly flat or we have filled the carrycot (taken off bumper bar) with clothing and used it instead of an additional bag. We usually fill the basket of it when it is folded and lying in the car with additional shoes etc.

When kids are little and in car seats there is a lot of space in the foot-well of the backseat.

SugarBatty · 29/08/2012 09:09

When I had dd most prams were travel systems and only way baby could face you was in the carseat attached as the pushchair bit only faced outwards iyswim. Now I have a pram for ds that you can have both ways. When he got to about 5 months I put him outwards facing so he could see what's going on. Now at 8 months iv put him back to face me as he cries if he can't see me! Op it will be fine to have your dd forward facing for your holiday.

Its funny how parent facing prams are so much more expensive than forward facing isn't it?

hawaiiWave · 29/08/2012 09:16

I'd go for option 2 or 4. If she doesn't like the Moses, could she sleep in your bed? My baby loved co sleeping for the first few months and then went straight to the cot next to my bed.

Or leave the bike at home and make lots of fuss of dc1 to compensate. I wouldn't like to use a forward facing pushchair at 13 weeks...

pigletmania · 29/08/2012 09:48

Dd had a silvercross pop stroller suitable from birth which reclined

KitCat26 · 29/08/2012 09:52

Baby will be fine don't worry.

Both ours were in the all singing all dancing forward facing maclaren from birth (when they weren't in the sling). The view kept them amused whilst I shopped and we could chat about what we could see.

They both spoke well very early so I reckon its rubbish about it causing a speech delay, thats just another stick to beat parents with.

Gentleness · 29/08/2012 09:54

I'd be more worried about loose straps than forward facing. Mostly because dh tends to bump up and down kerbs without thinking!

We used the pram attachment as a Moses basket for months, as a downstairs napping place and when travelling. It was fine but my kids were both easyish sleepers.

Gentleness · 29/08/2012 09:59

Oh and yes to using the pram to store the baby stuff. I could fit all we needed for one for a wk in there. Then when #2 came, I mysteriously found I could fit all we needed for two for a wk (bar a bag of nappies).

tryingtonotfeckup · 29/08/2012 10:00

*Starlight

I think it is absolutely essential to get the trained forward facing ASAP, so that once they are more they don't see you rating chocolate bars on the run and pester you for some.*

I thought it was just me.

I used the twin city jogger from birth, with twins I wasn't buying two prams / buggies when all they do is sleep as soon as they are in the pushchair when they are little. Don't see how it affects their speech when they are asleep in there anyway?

YANBU, take the CJ and relax.

Matildarae · 29/08/2012 10:08

Use the baby jogger there is no problem becauseit's suitable from birth.I have the double and am using it with my newborn five pound baby( with a snuggled insert) but a blanket and head support would do the same job. Enjoy your holiday x

Matildarae · 29/08/2012 10:09

Snuggler insert ahhh I hate autocorrect!

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