Carry cot to pram...

[Dueindecember2016]

At what age was your child before you moved them from the carry cot to a pram seat?

5 months with DD as she outgrew the carrycot.

At about 12 weeks but the pram bit lays quite flat. I needed to move DS that early so I could fit DD on the buggy board.

4 months.
Ds1 hated the carrycot so it was preferable to the car seat!!

8/9 months. The bugaboo carrycot was quite large

5 months, he outgrew the whole thing by 8 months so we had to get a stroller

Never really used it as she hated it and preferred the car seat as she could see out.

Went into the seat unit about 5 months.

4/5 months when he wanted to look out and was frustrated at lying flat. I made do with the car seat for a while, then did the transformation (it's a bugger to get back to a carry cot on my pram).

I got a pushchair that lay flat so I put them in it from birth.

3 months. He hated the carrycot due to reflux. He did have good head control at a young age though. If I had my time again I wouldn't have bothered with the carrycot at all, was a waste of money.

3 weeks because he had reflux and hated it but my buggy seat bit was also from birth so lay almost flat I started sitting him up a little at 6 weeks-ish the reflux consultant told me to since he didn't fold into himself raised up.

3 months, she screamed incessantly in the carrycot, I got an infant insert thingy for the pram seat so she could sit up and look around a bit. Transformed going for walks.

My DD outgrew the bugaboo carrycot at almost 6 months. She was a bit miserable lying flat for the last few weeks of that though, and as she was sitting independently before 5 months I probably should have moved her earlier!

I think about 10 weeks. He liked to look around so the pram seat was better for him.

Used carry cot for 3 months. Then car seat until 6 months,Now use seat and car seat.

4 months. Bugaboo so it was massive so no need to space wise. But he cried in the carry cot every single time and never slept. In the sitting up bit is happy, interested in what's going on around and now will nap. It's been a life saver.
I was using a baby carrier previously but by 4 months he was too heavy to go everywhere with the baby carrier anymore so I didn't feel like I had a choice.

Not joking ... everything became SO much easier the day we took the carry cot off.

Thanks everyone. We have a travel system and have all the bits ready to go. I like the idea of the carry cot for the early days but I would like to move to the pram (with a newborn insert) as soon as baby is ready. I like the idea of baby being able to be upright a bit more. I know it's all personal choice at the end of the day. As I don't drive I wouldn't be using the car seat unless I was with DH.

It isn't better for babies spine development to be flatter in pram the first 6 months. That's why prams without carrycots are suitable but only if a completely lie flat type, not a bucket type seat

Yes Art ideally babies should lie flat until around the time they can sit well with support (for most babies that is by 6 months hence the recommendation). If they can sit independently or with minimal prior to that it's probably ok to move them earlier.

By looking at the comments on here, everyone is different. A majority of prams are suitable from birth anyway.

We used ours for about 6 months. Our pushchair part did recline but preferred the carry cot.

I know some people have said they used the car seat bit after a few months but that is really bad advice. A car seat should Not be used for extended periods as a pushchair, there is scientific research showing that it isn't safe.

Prolonged time in a car seat can curve the spine.

12 weeks as DD got bored of lying flat so would grizzle the whole time we were out. The pram allowed her to be more upright and look around a bit.

The endless screaming in a lie flat just isn't in for anyone. Sometimes you have to find a happy middle.

9 months here, but the carry cot in our travel system was huge and had a back in it which we could raise so DD could sit up (from 5-6 months). If we'd had the right harness, we could have used the carry cot instead of a car seat too - we do very few long journeys, but it someone needed to travel a lot with a young baby, it would have been better than a car seat.