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4 year in buggy

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lisa270988 · 04/04/2026 16:08

Hi
My little boy is 4 years 4 months old but very very small for his age 91cm tall 11kg weight.
He starts school in September.
I worry because he isn't very good walking and gets tired! He can walk short distances but still uses he buggy a lot! Luckily the school is only 5 minutes walk away so he will manage that ok.
I have spoken to health visitor and he been checked over no reason medical as to why he gets tired probably just because he very small for his age! He was born 10 weeks premature.
The health visitor says the fact he still needs his buggy most of the time isn't a concern ad long as he is able to manage to walk short distances and can manage the walk to school it's fine and because he is so small ge might need the buggy longer and just to encourage him as much as possible to walk but not overdo it! She said he around the size of 2 year old so he is going to struggle more then others and the fact he was born early.
I just worried that the buggy should be long gone by now but it's still used daily!

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HoneyB2025 · 06/04/2026 21:13

Mine stopped at 3. But if your 4 year old is big it will look awkward. I guess a small 4 year old won’t look so bad.

springtome · 07/04/2026 11:23

My daughter (also small) used her buggy for a long time too. We were just joking about this last night. Our walk to school was 35/40 mins so I used the buggy when taking her brother to school (she is only a year younger so would have been 4 for his Third term and she still needed the buggy. I think we under up using a scooter to help her get to school faster as I could also pull her along and leave the scooter at school rather than bring home an empty buggy.

She did grow out of it over time.

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