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When did you stop using a pushchair?

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AndThisIsTrue · 30/07/2015 18:27

Just wondered really. I have read a few threads recently about people who stopped using them before age 2 but I know people who still using a pushchair with 4 year olds. So when did you stop using a buggy? Also when did you stop using a buggy on the bus? Thanks!

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AndThisIsTrue · 31/07/2015 09:14

Thanks, lots of varied answers! We live in a big city, I can't imagine taking DS(nearly 2.6) into town without his buggy yet. I look forward to not taking it on the bus but I'm not convinced he would stand at the bus stop without running away!

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Getyercoat · 01/08/2015 09:09

Shortly after second birthday.

I remember taking my sister buggy shopping with me when I was pregnant. She has three teenagers.
I was oohing and aahing at the ones that said "up to age 4" while she sniggered at the thought of one of her boys happily sitting in a pushchair at 4.
I didn't get it.... Then I had a tall, heavy ball of fury who needed mixed martial arts moves to be wrestled into the pushchair from 18 months.

Only1scoop · 01/08/2015 09:13

At around 2

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BagsyThisName · 01/08/2015 09:23

Ds1 was an early and strong walker and I also have a 20m gap to ds2. Ds1 barely used it at all from when he turned 2....until he was 4 then he used to hop in when it was vacant. I banned that when he started school.

Ds2 is a titch, and we have less patience, so used regularly until 3 1/2. We had a 'last ever ride in the pushchair' moment a few weeks ago just before he turned 4 when I was in a hurry. We got him a scooter with a strap so we can pull him along instead if need be for his 4th birthday.

BagsyThisName · 01/08/2015 09:25

Op I had a bag with a strap on for ds1 so I had that looped round my wrist while he walked next to baby in pushchair, also perfect for bus stops!

TheBookofRuth · 01/08/2015 09:30

DD graduated to the buggy board at two and a half when her baby brother came along. A year on and I've recently moved him to a lighter, umbrella-fold pushchair without a board, as pushing them both was doing a number on my back, so she has to walk everywhere. We don't take the bus but rarely use the car for short journeys.

She's pretty good at walking so long as she can take her time, but will occasionally stop and tell me she's "run out of power for walking"!

Thurlow · 01/08/2015 09:34

Still use it at 3.5. Nursery is a 20 minute adult stride first thing in the morning and I can no longer carry her if she refuses to move. Also I have to get the train after to work. Ditto for town, but it's mainly for the shopping and if she gets knackered.

She can get out and walk whenever she wants. But realistically if you don't drive or use a bus, and can't carry your DC, and don't have DC2 and a buggy board, I can see how you end up using a buggy till quite late!

toomuchtooold · 03/08/2015 18:35

3y3m twins here (hi!) and interfering people on bikes notwitchstanding, I'm going to keep using it any time we're going out and I know they will get too tired to walk by the end of the day. I don't strap them in now, and they get off and on fairly frequently, but it's just really useful to have something to carry shopping, 14000 changes of clothes they seem to get through and also of course the occasional overtired little person.

dietcokeisgreat · 06/08/2015 17:15

Just 4......how people get a 2-3 yr old to walkfar is totally baffling to me!

YeOldeTrout · 07/08/2015 09:06

Mine crashed their scooters into things (walls, posts, stones) then refused to ride them any further and I had to carry it. Scooters = waste of time.

Wrist straps still rely on child being energetic enough to walk a few miles. Straps = waste of time.

Well, for some of us, anyway!

Yika · 07/08/2015 09:13

About 4.5, and would have used it for longer were it not for feeling embarrassed that my DD was still in it!! She is pushing 5 now and would probably still happily go in it!

She is the kind of child it is not much fun to walk with... she either runs off or claims 'tiredness' after walking 50m (she can run for hours at the park or playground)... and she's also always liked the pushchair. She can have a snack or read a book while I do the work!

Any time I needed to walk a lot, or at a reasonable pace, like on a city break, it was vital!!

ceeveebee · 07/08/2015 09:16

My DTs are 3.8 and we still use at least a single buggy daily, sometimes double - we have a mile walk to nursery and we can't go slowly as I need to get to work. Ditto when they are collected they are usually tired, and at least one of them usually has a nap on way home.
If I am just taking one, or if both me and DH are with them we don't use the buggy.

Piratejones · 07/08/2015 12:58

About 4.5, and would have used it for longer were it not for feeling embarrassed that my DD was still in it!! She is pushing 5 now and would probably still happily go in it!
She is the kind of child it is not much fun to walk with... she either runs off or claims 'tiredness' after walking 50m (she can run for hours at the park or playground)... and she's also always liked the pushchair. She can have a snack or read a book while I do the work!

You should get a cheap one. It's honestly not worth the hassle.

happymummyone · 07/08/2015 13:01

At around two. I got fed up of getting the pushchair out and DD never seemed to run out of energy so walking was easy. Also getting the sodding pushchair on the train was annoying, much easier without it. (I don't drive)

Wishful80smontage · 07/08/2015 13:02

Not through my choice but my 2.5 year old has been refusing to go in hers for a few months now so we've stopped using it altogether- life was so much easier when she would use it- especially as I'm expecting again and its hard work taking her out just on the reins tantrums all the time :(

teacher54321 · 07/08/2015 14:17

We moved house a year ago when Ds was 2 1/2 and it got put in the shed and we've never taken it out again!! He's always been a really confident walker, I remember at 15mo he did a three mile walk without stopping at a national trust place.

Thurlow · 07/08/2015 14:26

Yika, that's what DD is like. She's always active, always running around, will go for a walk in the woods for hours, but trying to get her from A-B at a reasonable speed is a nightmare. We bought a secondhand Quinny Zapp (really easy to push with a heavier child) and then she can jump in or out as she wants.

Hardtoknow · 07/08/2015 14:43

DD is 5.9 and hopped in 3.4yo DS' at the weekend after a long, hot day during which she had been physically very active. Unless I'm doing a few errands in shops close to where I have parked or walking the few hundred yards to the local park, I always have it with me. I did have a moment of uncertainty at the end of term when I noticed that the other younger siblings who will be in DS' year and many from the year below were all there without pushchairs but then I remembered that they all drive whereas we walk the 3/4 mile each way. DS will walk part of it but, when he gets tired, I can't carry him especially if it is on the way to school in the morning or home in the afternoon & I have all of DD's stuff. Sometimes they both scoot but I find it terrifying when they do as so many driveways cross the pavement.

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