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to be actually surprised, in a way kind of freaked out, that you can buy a pram like this?

157 replies

Mintyy · 06/02/2015 19:18

presumably for girl & boy twins.

I know, I know, OBVIOUSLY there are genuinely shocking things in the world that this does not even begin to compare to, and NO it is not the only thing I need to worry about but ... I just seriously don't like this pram. I guess the gender stereotyping from birth wrankles, and when it is put side by side like this so blatantly it seems even more crass than usual. I don't know why else I get this really unsettled reaction.

But aibu?

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ILovedYouYesterday · 06/02/2015 19:31

I sort agree and I wouldn't have chosen it (but then my youngest is 15 and there was no such thing as a pink pram in my day, prams were mostly navy/green/red and you bought one and handed it down to your next baby unless it actually fell apart!) but is it really much different to dressing the little girl twin in a pink coat and the boy in a blue one. It's not doing anyone any harm is it. After all, the babies don't know or care which colour seat they are in!

On the fence here!

nicknack9510 · 06/02/2015 19:32

I'm jealous of anyone who can afford it. My twins had to survive in a "from birth" buggy Envy

Colour wise it's sad that people feel the need to basically signpost the gender of their newborns.

IShallCallYouSquishy · 06/02/2015 19:32

My poor DS in the bright yellow Bee (that his sister also used) sadly has no sense of his gender. Because wait, he's a baby.

NutellaLawson · 06/02/2015 19:33

There's is a mum who lives near me who has that very thing. I threw my dh a look when she parked it next to our table, unloaded twin number 1 into a high chair , dressed entirely in blue, then unpacked twin number two, head to foot in various shades of pink. Dh and I silently judged.

She then returned to the pushchair to get a bib of blue for son, a bit of pink for daughter and then, just as I was about to expire with my judgements around my neck, she gave each infant a sippy cup, also in blue and pink.

I seriously considered asking her whether they were identical twins and watch her head explode.

NutellaLawson · 06/02/2015 19:34

Judgement = judgypants

BossWitch · 06/02/2015 19:39

Oh good god that argos one is hideous. You may address me as Captain Judgeypants today.

Minty82 · 06/02/2015 19:40

Oh I wish you had Nutella! I can kind of understand colour coding your twins if they were identical, just to make sure you didn't mix them up! But the blue/pink thing I don't get at all. I've actually been congratulated for my open mindedness in allowing baby DS to use a pink sippy cup. I have two children. We have a rainbow of sippy cups. Funnily enough it's never commented on when DD drinks from a blue one...

bumbleymummy · 06/02/2015 19:41

I was thinking it was going to be a pram with an ipad holder as well. I don't see much harm in this one (aside from the price! :) ) Is it any different than someone choosing a single blue pram for a boy and a pink one for a girl?

Ponyboycurtis · 06/02/2015 19:41

Same here nicknack ??

CharleyFarleyy · 06/02/2015 19:45

I quite like it and don't really see the problem.

andadietcoke · 06/02/2015 19:48

I have this buggy, but with the jewel blue material (pretty cornflower blue). I have non-ID girls. The old women where I live can not process this. At all.

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 06/02/2015 19:50

bumbley I don't see why anyone would specifically choose a pink pram for a girl or a blue one for a boy either! It baffles me when I see people on our local buy and sell site asking if anyone has a 'pram suitable for a girl' available. Or boy. I didn't realise there was a distinction?!

the bugaboo donkey is actually a really good double pram and I would love one if I had the cash. The hoods are sold in lots of different colours, you don't have to go for the pink/blue option Smile

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Mintyy · 06/02/2015 19:51

Well, tbh I don't like colour coded prams at all, but this just seems worse somehow. I had a girl then a boy. They both used the same pram and sling and ds got put in a lot of dd's cast off vests and babygrows too.

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SaucyJack · 06/02/2015 19:52

Is there a law that states you have to put a boy under the blue hood and a girl under the pink hood?

ImBatDog · 06/02/2015 19:54

i never bothered, they both used the black graco travel system/baby seat, then the black/white maclaren. I had a double for a while and it was a grey maclaran with blue trim.

in fact i dont think i've ever bought my dd anything 'pinkified'.. it annoys me. she doesn't need a pink kitchen or a pink playhouse, the 'normal' primary colour ones are fine!

BMO · 06/02/2015 19:54

I think it's cute.

Lagoonablue · 06/02/2015 19:55

Soooooooooo expensive. It's a pram!

Xmasbaby11 · 06/02/2015 19:55

Bugaboos are great quality so I'm not shocked at the price. I don't think the colours are so awful, though I wouldn't buy it myself.

FreeButtonBee · 06/02/2015 19:56

I won't hear a word against the bugaboo as a buggy. 2 years into twins, it's been worth every penny. And since we're joe expecting no 3, I expect we'll use it for at least another year with a buggy board.

I have red for my b/g twins. Agree it's no worse than a single blue buggy for a boy and vv but there's somethjng about twins that makes people have VERY specific views, I find...

Hopingforpeaceandgoodwill · 06/02/2015 19:58

Our car seat is pink. Why? Because it was on sale, half the price of all the other colours. People think we got it because we knew we were having a girl but actually we got it before we knew she was a she!

Girlwhowearsglasses · 06/02/2015 19:59

When I was pregnant with twins I lusted on eBay after proper old fashioned Silver Cross type prams - some of them even had a hood at each end for twins.

I didn't buy them as we had five steps up to the door at the time but I would have otherwise for sure. In the end I use stage Bugaboo pram I already had for about six weeks and top and tailed them, they looked like the Jack on a playing card.

It was most disconcerting looking at the vintage prams as most of them were obviously being traded by women collecting those dolls that look like real babies.

NowABitShapeless · 06/02/2015 20:00

It's just a Bugaboo Donkey with one pink hood and one blue one. You can choose any colour.

I have a Bee and love it.

Disastronaut · 06/02/2015 20:01

I clicked on Outraged's link. My eyes! That thing would traumatise them for life.

PatrickOShea · 06/02/2015 20:02

I like it. I also like the Cosatto ones.
I couldn't give a shiny shit what other people dress/push their kids about in. Buy a bright pink pram for either gender. Do note though, you'll get the piss ripped out of you if a little girl ends up in it Hmm