When did you...

[laughingeyes2013]

... Allow your baby to sit up in a pushchair?

My 5 month old complains if laid flat but slumps almost immediately if propped up in his carrycot with cushions then complains even more loudly!

So I'm tempted to let him have a go strapped in to the push chair for short bursts but I know you're supposed to lie flat for 6 months.

From 4/5 months. I wouldn't prop him on cushions - use the pushchair on a recline setting instead.

Thanks for your reply.

Did you have a time limit or just ditch the carrycot altogether?

I think I let my DD sit up in the pushchair at about 4 months and she loved it although our pushchair had three reclining levels, flat, mid-way and totally upright and I think to begin with I had it mid-way, didn't go straight onto fully upright. DD was able to sit up unaided at about four and a half months though so that might have helped her support herself in the pushchair more? Think it'a one of these things that there may be guidelines for but it's more to do with deciding what's right for you and your lo

I had an icandy and the seat official age was six months, my baby had bad reflux from birth and also was able to roll on hes side from birth, I read somewhere not to lay in the carrycot when they can roll.
As soon as he was too big to have the newborn insert in hes carseat I noticed the angle of the seat without it was pretty much the same as the buggy seat reclined anyway so he was 10 weeks when I put him in the icandy seat reclined and he didn't look too small for it at all, he wasn't particularly long or anything but the straps on the lowest point the went were over hes shoulders properly not brushing past hes ears.

Really interesting! I have an iCandy too and thought the same about the car seat

Yeah my car seat wobbled on the frame and the proper seat seamed much more stable.
If you face towards you and recline its exactly the same angle I think.