Sharing baby purchases we regret, like our nuna pushchair

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I absolutely regret buying our nuna mixx next pushchair. I wish I could go back in time and pick a better pushchair. I'm convinced that almost any other pushchair is better. We've since bought another pushchair that's miles better, and shows exactly how bad the nuna is.

Theres no returning it so ive got to just live with how dysfunctional this nuna pushchair is. Now when I go to John Lewis I urge anyone I see looking at a nuna pushchair not to buy it.

So this is my digital version of that.

Below is a long account of why I dislike our pushchair so very much. Please read it if you're thinking of getting one. If not then feel free to skip and just share your baby buying regrets.

Reasons why I dislike my pushchair:

1. You can only adjust the straps behind the child, instead of being able to make adjustments to the straps while they're on the child like any normal, not brain dead pushchair design.

This means you have to take the child out of the pushchair anytime you want to make the straps looser or tighter, then put them back in and then if you didn't make the right adjustments the first time round you go through the whole process again.

And the reason you need to adjust so much? Because the straps get a lot tighter when you move the chair from upright to a more flat position (ie for a nap). So anytime your baby wants to nap you've got to go through this whole malarkey. Once you're through, baby is probably not nice and sleepy anymore.

1. The footrest is comically useless. It's so flimsy, it doesn't stay in a horizontal position (for naps for instance). It's also a lot shorter than many other pushchair footrests. Our 7 month old has almost outgrown it.

1. The nuna pushchair looks nice and well made but ours creaks and seems to veer all over the place. It corners really badly.

1. You cant use the nuna raincover on the pushchair if the chair is in any other position except upright. It's been a rainy few weeks and ive felt chained to the house because I can't do something as simple as recline the seat with the raincover on. I'm biting the bullet and ordering a universal cover from amazon - but really, the actual nuna cover should fit.

And how does that come up into conversation 🙄

I followed a blog link and bought two ‘splat-shaped’ weaning spoons for £16.. I proudly packed them in with the lunch I packed when they went to their grandparents for the day and I guess they got thrown away. I felt too mortified to mention them again because I know it was a gimmick and nothing beats a teaspoon in reality 🫣

That takes me back! My daughter is nearly 28 and I had the Bebe Confort Mini Plume.

I regret my second hand pushchair it just wasn’t as nice

@stormy11 we will try it again one as he will eventually grow out of his current one. It's more the position I think upset him after a year of reclining

I regret buying the Tommee Tippee Sangenic for nappy disposal - such a rank job to empty it after a couple of days of nappies, expensive refills, and so much simpler to whack the offending article in a nappy bag and into the kitchen bin, which gets emptied daily
I also regret the effort, time and money we took to restore a vintage swinging crib - baby hated it and wouldn't sleep in anything but the £10 second hand moses basket, little buggah
But I did love the Pacapod. Such nice quality, and well designed.

SouthLondonMum DS is 18 and we are using the muslins as tea towels.

I bought a pushchair which was meant to fold small and fit in a back pack, it was enormous, but I hadn’t found any stockists to actually see it before buying,

How interesting the different opinions!
We love our:
Nuna pushchair (only used the carry cot so far though)
Joie 360 car seat
Baby bath seat (nearly didn't get one but got a cheap 2nd hand one it's our most used item!)
Muslins - got a very sicky baby.
Owlet sock.

Regrets:
Ewan the dream sheep. Great reviews yet we were unimpressed and returned it. Now have a much better noise machine
Snuza breathing monitor. So many false alarms.
Mamas and papas bouncer chair is rubbish and feels really cheap even though it wasn't!

A snuzpod. Never been slept in. We had a stay in NICU, then DC was v clingy and didn't want put down. We co slept. That pod cannot have had even 1 hour of use in total. I never even changed the sheets. Also the 6 sheets I bought. Can't even sell it I am told.

Anything by Cosatto 😩 the car seat was awful - it’s hard to adjust, a pain in the arse to move between cars and looked tatty in a matter of days. My DS was always uncomfortable in it and it was so unsupportive in a nap, his head always lolled about. We have a Joie now. The cosatto is used as a backup in emergencies.

The high chair was heavy, took up loads of space even when folded, was horrendously fiddly to clean (I pressure washed it at one point to get the grime out of the plastic shell under the insert) and eventually it fell apart. It only lasted one child until age 2.

We bought the matching dragon bedding too. It’s faded and the sheets are really worn after 8 months!

after reading all the good reviews and promo stuff on here, I was so disappointed.

Breast pump. Breast fed DD for about a year but only ever managed to get a few ml using a pump. I found a couple of barely filled bags in the bottom of the freezer when DD was about 6

I adored my Nuna mix! Was so sad when DS grew out of it!

I agree with the creaking though!

Why can’t you sell it?!

Hana stretchy wrap. The NCT teacher raved about stretchy wraps so I asked for one as a gift from a relative. I did like using it but my baby was too heavy by 4-5 months. I should've just bought it secondhand.
Also an Uppababy Vista lover here! The giant basket carts so much stuff about.

Baby bjorn bouncer- all my friends babies loved it, my little boy just hates being left on his own very clingy so being in a bouncer was not for him. Now 5 months he is pretty strong so tries to fully sit up in it so much so that the harness detached and hubby caught him just in time. For such an expensive bouncer the safety harness part is very flimsy. Bought for 185 sold this weekend for 80

UV steriliser, barely used as baby refuses bottles….. selling it as he’s nearly 6 months and no sign that he is gonna take bottles any time soon

moses basket - same as above doesn’t like to be left alone ha

next to me - spent the first couple of nights in it, co slept ever since.

I looked at a couple of places and none allowed selling if baby beds unless new, so it sits in my room holding clean washing.

Happy to report 8 months in we've used everything we bought. I really really wanted a rocking chair but I'm happy now we didn't get one as it wouldn't have been used / would be a place to throw clothes! Why would I sit out on a rocking chair in the middle of the night feeding when my warm comfortable bed is right there 😅

I was incredibly short of money expecting ds so I bought pretty much everything second hand and very cheaply off EBay. You know what? I don't regret anything. Ds was very happy and well cared for baby. He neither knows nor cares that all his baby stuff was second hand....despite my huuuge mum guilt at the time.

I really like our nuna mixx next! It feels robust compared to other pushchairs. It’s good over bumpy rural terrain. It is wide and bulky for sure but it suits our lifestyle. I don’t think the car seat was particularly good.

Currently my biggest regret is spending £1300 on an icandy pushchair. We wanted something robust to take on dog walks but everywhere has been so muddy I have just been taking baby out in a carrier. The pram is currently in the living room as a glorified day bed for baby.

Might use it more in the summer but currently a big waste of money.

I used to put the baby bath inside the big bath too, easier too fill, not as low as on the floor and saves on water waste. Now we live somewhere without a bath and still have our toddler bath so I fill the toddler bath on the floor of the shower to bathe them both (the almost 6yo still fits in it!). The baby and toddler bath were definitely not regrets for us 😅

Actual regrets is usually full price or big space taking toys, we have too many, it's hard to whittle them back down/let go of them as even the almost 6yo still plays with some baby/toddler toys and I wish I could have at least found similar second hand or not bought some of the bigger things.

Tee hee! I know one of these people too, and another the uses the variation ‘nune’ or ‘nunie ’

We have a playpen but never actually used it to confine a baby lol, we actually bought it to give our eldest as space where the youngest couldn't get to him/get to precious toys, so it's a safe space rather than a confinement space for us. Youngest is getting close to working out home to get in though/steals things from through the gaps now, so we'll have to retire it and come up with a new safe place for eldest to put precious things later this year I expect.

If you still have it it might come in useful in the future if you have another baby maybe.

worst

baby bjorn sling: so heavy and clunky, baby screamed when attempted to put them in it

bibs: ours never wears one and we were gifted a ton

JoJo Maman: their quality is crap, threads and seams coming apart at the first wash and the company doesn’t back their product by refunding and exhanging the faulty item.

comforters : sleep guidance not to use and we were given a lot, and I mean a lot of the bloody things

Best value purchases;

Bugaboo bee. I agree it’s a faff to put groceries in as only one side gives access, but love it otherwise

muslins: can’t have enough with a reflux baby

snoo: used for day naps only, godsend for a refluxy baby to get them down for naps

tomie tipper microwave steriliser

We didn't buy anything at all other than the essentials (a snuzpod, a pram and a car seat) until our first was born and then we just bought as we went along with things we've been recommended or felt we actually needed. I've never understood how people spend hundreds of pounds on things when they haven't actually "lived" with a baby and don't know what things they'll need or want!
Therefore no regrets. The only thing I bought for my second was a chair that swings for whilst we have dinner. Not used it as much as I thought we would but it's still been useful on the odd occasion