Prams in school

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I use my car. Wouldn't dream of trying to use public transport with baby and toddler, I'm not in the bloody army.

trains are okay - you can always wedge a buggy in somewhere(!) and the driver doesn't refuse to allow you on just because you have a buggy - just buses can be a right nightmare

does annoy me to see big luggage racks on local buses, where I think they could have fitted in a nice buggy space!

Our local baby clinics have signs up banning prams, also.
This is part of my BIG Beef -- everything is set up for people who have only one child, or maybe 2 at most. Especially! places for other children. 3 yo desperately needs a wee when you get to school to pick up the 5yo? Have to use the bushes, school toilets are off-limits, or else get tut-tutted by the head "Please try not to use our toilets". Right, like I can predict the vagaries of a 3yo girl's bladder!
NCT coffee mornings? You try taking a 4yo with you, or getting there & back in the time the 4yo is in playgroup. Local Authority post-natal groups? No childcare provision for any other children you may have. Nativity play at school? How am I supposed to keep baby & 3yo quiet & happy for 35 minutes in a hot crowded room? Ditto for school carol performance at the church. I can go on & on...

Our baby clinic playgroup has told all mums to leave prams outside. Despite the fact they have a large garden area with a gate where they would be safe. You can bring your baby in while it's asleep in the buggy. I think it's madness because then all the people who would walk will bring their cars and that surely is more dangerous.

Joined up thinking eh? One of my beefs especially - when I ever did visit the babyclinic, I took to going by car, even though it's walking distance, because going with the buggy was too difficult. These factors just aren't considered though.

We aren't allowed to bring younger siblings to the nativity play either - their excuse is they become restless and distract the children. In the days of the baby clinic - prams/pushchairs weren't allowed either but they supplied bike locks!!

DSs infants were not alloowed younger siblings - a bit unfair I always thought.
As far as prams go - I don't think I am meant to but I just waltz in with it all the time -its a school

Ebeny, come to my NCT group, no problem with 4 year olds (though most admittedly are at playgroup and many mums drop off first, then pick up afterwards.

I can sort of understand the pushchair rule in a crowded hall, but not a half empty one. As someone who runs a drama school if someone wanted to bring a buggy inside (sleeping child etc) I would either offer to babysit myself just outside the hall or remove a chair and slot the buggy in the space, so as not to clog the aisle up.

At my dd's nursery (part of a prep school) I often wheel ds into dd's classroom, in his buggy.

I havn't yet challenged my clinic (its not within walking distnace but where I used to live I took the pram in, (was held inside doctors surgery)it never occured to me that I couldn't.