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would beautiful dolls pram maker her look spoiled?

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mummyloveslucy · 14/01/2008 22:02

I know it sounds really silly but our 3 year old daughter has a beautiful silver cross coach built pink dolls pram. It has been like an ornament in her bedroom for the past year as she was a bit too young for it, but I think in the spring she could start to take it out. The only problem is I don't know what other parents would make of it. It really is head turning and I always have dressed my daughter in very traditional and beautiful clothes. I don't know if the two together would look very protencious and spoiled ? I know I shouldn't care what other people think, but I do I can't help it.

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mummyvontummy · 14/01/2008 23:51

Am desperate to get her another for her birthday-I never got over selling it. We live in Cambridge too so would look even cuter strolling round the college gardens, and as she's older she may be more bothered (crosses fingers and squeezes eyes shut!)? She never even asked where it went!?! We should have Oberon appreciation meet ups! xx

mummyvontummy · 14/01/2008 23:52

Sorry, that was we live in Cambridge NOW-ie we sold it before we lived here, hence her looking cuter-argh! I didn't mean cuter than Lucy, sorry, argh! xx

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mummyloveslucy · 15/01/2008 18:23

Aah yes, I can just picture that now. How gorgeous! I'd take her to a shop that sold them first maybe, just to see if she's still interested in them. I hope she is for your sake. I'd love to see her, you don't tend to see any other children these days so beautifully presented.

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pooka · 15/01/2008 18:28

Dd (Lucy) was given a pink silver cross doll's pram for christmas, by my MIL.
TBH I would much rather she hadn't been given it, because

It's too large and bulky
dd finds it a bit of a strain to push and, finally,
I cannot get in touch with my pink side and I didn't want her to be bought it in the first place and think it's a bit OTT.

I can see that it's pretty, and well-made and so on. And I know it cost an arm and a leg, but I resent the fact that she was bought it not because she asked for it, or wanted it, or because it would suit her personality, but because MIL has this set idea that girls have prams and boys have guns.

Anyway - a bit of a rant there, apologies for that.

But in response to the OP, if you are comfortable with your dd's clothes and with the pram, then of course you should use it. Would be daft not to. Don't let it be what dd's will be - something that lurks in the playroom causing minor eye injuries to toddlers who walk into the spring bit.

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mummyloveslucy · 15/01/2008 19:25

I thought I'd made it perfectly clear icod that it was my husbands idea to wait until our dd was old enough to have a say in the matter. I am not going to ask her oppinion!!!

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Alambil · 15/01/2008 19:33

I haven't got a DD but if I had, she'd have one of these prams; only so I can "help" push it lol lol - I am SO jealous!

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mummyloveslucy · 15/01/2008 19:33

pooka, I can see what you meen but at the end of the day it was a very expensive present bought with love from you dd's Grandma. I think she would probubly be heartbrocken if she knew how you felt. (I know I would be!)I just feel for your mil

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mummyloveslucy · 15/01/2008 19:41

Pooka, maybe you could sell it to geekymummy? It seems a waste to have it and not use it.

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pooka · 15/01/2008 19:55

Oh I agree - she would be gutted. That's why I am posting here!
Again, I couldn't give it away, because it would hurt MIL and, you are right, it was given with love.
Is also quite a useful place to keep some of the multiple dolls dd was given too. Can you sense my vibe of "I'm so not a girly girl"?

UniS · 15/01/2008 19:59

I had one of those. by teh time I was big enough to see over it I was too old to want to take dolls out with me. result it sat in the corner of my bedroom as a toy box for years.
They are nice to look at at but a pain to haul around. Good luck to you with outings.

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mummyloveslucy · 15/01/2008 20:09

My daughter is really tall so I hope she'll be O.K. She pushes it around the house no probs.
pooka- what a dilema to be in! I don't know what to surgest. Maybe your dd will take to it as she gets older, and you'll just have to grit your teeth when she takes it out, or dress her all in black to contrast.
Could you keep it at your mil's and say you don't have the room for it? that way she would only use it with your mil, I think that would make her very happy I know my mum would love that

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