To ask if you can push your pram up steps?

[JemimaTiggywinkle]

I have 5 steps that go from street level to my front garden path (no driveway).

Is it possibly to push a pram with a baby in up and down the steps? And if so, can you recommend a good pram for steps?

(I’m not planning on doing this when newborn - I know you’re not meant to bump them about)

You can turn around and pull a pram up steps by bumping it up each one. You’d need one which has wheels smaller than the step depth.

Interesting.. don’t know why but I’d assumed bigger wheels would be easier

Yes, turn around and pull the pram up each step, and to go down you raise the front wheels and lower the back ones down slowly. You’ll have to do this with a newborn anyway if there is a high kerb when you’re out and about, they’ll be ok provided you’re not running the pram over cobblestones for hours...

A pram with suspension like the Out n About 360 is much, much easier for steps.

I used to take my pram up and down a long staircase. Big back wheels. Wouldn't do it in a carrycot, just something they were strapped into.

We had to do this with 15 steps with my eldest two, as did another few mums in the building, and we didn't have a car for a while too..After a few false starts my tips would be:

• Newborn in the sling wherever possible and you don't take a buggy out (eg a quick trip to the shops). So much easier!

-i had a Baby jogger GT which I loved, because it bumped easily but also folds easily, I also had a bugaboo at one point that bumped well and you could remove the seat with baby in, put them in the hallway.and take the frame up separately, which was handy, but felt less secure as the baby for older -A yo-yo/maclaren can seem like a good idea but as they get bigger it's hard if they nap in the buggy, because the wheels are too small for bumping up but also it feels a bit dangerous to lift up a whole buggy with a sleeping older.child (might be ok for 5 steps Vs 15 though). I did buy one for when they were a bit older and we had a car, it was useful for public transport too, and as they got older and are less likely to nap and more able to get out of the buggy and walk up themselves.

It not going to be easy, but it’s doable. Backwards bumping up is best. I would alsways recommend carrying baby inside and the dealing with the empty pram afterwards, it’s much safer.

I would suggest something that folds easily and can be carried up, but we all know it will actually have a bag full of shopping attached and a basket full of nappies, sun cream and half eaten snacks that will need emptying first!

I can do it easily with my icandy as it has big back wheels. I've got a folding buggy I use when they are a bit older and it's much harder due to the smaller wheels and position of the brakes. There might be a trick to it I've just not found though!

I have 3 steps to the front door and turn it around and bump it up backwards. In our old house we had about 10 steps and sometimes I just used to pick the entire pram up without folding and carry it up. I have the YoYo and actually think the tiny wheels and light frame make it pretty easy. DC is 3 now so would definitely tell me if the bumping was uncomfortable! Agree that I wouldn’t do it with a newborn though.

I used to bring my baby up 8 steps in my OutNAbout Sport. When she was little I'd carry the entire thing. It was possible to bump it up quite easily.

I've got three steps in and as pp said go in and out backwards. Do go up the steps, it makes it less bumpy if you can hold the handle bars and slowly pull the wheels up rather then bumping them up x

Wouldn't be a problem with my Uppababy Vista, although a bit of a pain in the arse.

I don't do this I just carry my pram. I got a bugaboo bee for this precise reason, I have to carry it up stairs to front door of building and we have 21 stairs to our front door. My son is nearly two and I can still carry it. I don't think I would bump him up the stairs that would be dangerous

With the bugaboo bee aswell you can detach the carry cot, take that up if your baby is sleeping. Put it down then carry the frame up. That's an option. I did that with the stairs to my door

I use a babyzen yo-yo. It weighs about the same as a car seat so I tend to pick it up and carry it up and down steps with child inside.

Use one with large back wheels with air.

Phil and teds maybe?

I also had the baby zen yo-yo and would just lift it. Very handy for the numerous times the train station lift was broken and I needed to get to work on time.

I could lift it with DS in until he was 2. We stopped using it then because he’s like a collie and can walk for miles but if we’d still been using it I could have taken him out, folded it in less than 3 seconds and just walked down/up with it on my shoulder and DS in the other arm.

Small lightweight pram as others have mentioned is great. We had a greentomm one and could happily pull it up a full flight of steps (really handy on metro without lifts etc) as it's small, light and the wheels are just the right size.

Don't get anything with carriage suspension - the big Silver Cross prams have it. Our pram did have it, and it was great for us in lots of ways (dealt really well with rough surfaces), but hard work even on a single step.

Don’t mean to sound rude but how do you think people that live in flats manage? I use to live in a 3rd floor flat with no lift 48 steps in total (yes I counted) and had to bump a double buggy up pretty much daily otherwise I couldn’t get out (wasn’t allowed to store prams in the communal area so couldn’t be left downstairs) you turn the pram around and bump it up the steps, it won’t harm the baby, mine use to sleep through it, I even had to do it straight after my csection.

To get over railway bridges when ds was a baby I'd unclip his carry cot to carry in one hand and collapse the base to carry over the other shoulder.

Outnaboutnipper can do almost anything. I'd still go backwards though

I had 11 steps to my front door. I bought a Mamas and Papas Armadillo Flip specifcally for how easily the frame folded. So I could pop the carry cot off, fold the frame with one hand and carry both up.

Another one who had an out & about! I didn't realise they were so popular! It was great fir our 3 back steps. It would stretch forwards to the top. The front 7 steps I had to turn it around and pull up backwards.

I'm barely 5ft and couldn't lift a buggy with a baby in it safely.

My bugaboo bee can't be pulled up our (13) front steps because the strap slabs over hang and the small wheels get stuck under the lip. The are wide steps so I just lifted the pram up and down until recently when lockdown meant I hadn't dont it for ages and my strength didn't keep up with DDs (just 2) weight

Think there's a fine balance of step type and wheel size.

I've had to do this a lot (one family member lived in an upstairs flat when DS was newborn). Big back pram wheels, take your time and keep the pram level.

To go up just keep the pram level and slowly guide it up the step and then over the 'curb' of the step, back up to the next step and repeat. On the way down again keep the pram level and push until you feel the pram going over the 'curb' and slowly lower to the next step and repeat. I hope I've explained that well.