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Bad luck to keep pram at home before baby??

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Mrsb999 · 06/01/2013 08:47

Anyone else heard of this? Or more to the point does anyone believe it?? Our pram is due to be delivered this Wednesday and people have been asking where we are planning on keeping it as its bad luck to have it in the house before baby arrives?

DH and I shrugged it off and have planned to keep it at our house, will be too much of a faff to go get the car seat bit if we store it elsewhere and I suddenly go into labour!

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LadyMargolotta · 06/01/2013 08:48

I've heard of it, but ignored it. My dd1 was fine

cupcake78 · 06/01/2013 08:49

Old wives tale. Our pram was at home and ds is fine! Dc2 on the way and pram in the attic.

aimingtobeaperfectionist · 06/01/2013 08:53

We had all baby stuff at ours, set up and ready to go. DD is the best baby in the world fine and I'd do it again for DC2.

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Mrsb999 · 06/01/2013 08:55

Yeh that's what I thought. DH's best mate and his wife are also expecting their first a week before us and he keeps banging on about how they will be leaving the pram at his sisters til they bring baby home

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EnglishGirlApproximately · 06/01/2013 08:57

I had mine at home. The last thing i wanted around my due date was to be faffing about transporting baby stuff from one place to another when I had a spare room to keep it in.

tiredteddy · 06/01/2013 08:57

I really don't see how the pram is any different to any other piece of equipment. However mil made a fuss about it when I was expecting ds1. We had pram delivered to sil who then brought it round, slightly ridiculous way of keeping the peace. When sil was expecting this superstition was all forgotten and her roam was in her house grrrr . What a faff! Do what you like. Its a silly old wives tale.

lauraellajane · 06/01/2013 09:01

I would rather learn how to errect the darn thing before the baby is here!

cupcake78 · 06/01/2013 09:09

Yes, learn how to use it well first! It can be tricky enough getting used to how to handle a baby without having a pram to faff on with as well

HavingALittleFaithBaby · 06/01/2013 09:10

DH is a bit paranoid about this. We will be putting it in the garage because apparently this is ok

ISeeNoReasonForBandage · 06/01/2013 09:14

DSis went completely overboard with this old wives tale and refused to have anything in the house until after her PFB came home. I told her she was mad, but she was insistent. Not being quite so paranoid this time round I notice .

BrokenBananaTantrum · 06/01/2013 09:17

It is fine to have the pram at home. I did so I could learn how to use the thing before I had to put DD in it!

The idea comes (I think) from Victorian times when there was a very high infant mortality rate and as a pram cost so much money people didn't want to buy an expensive item if baby wasn't going to come home

HecatePropolos · 06/01/2013 09:26

It's an old wives tale.

How can having a pram at home cause anything? It can't. It has no power at all. It's a pram. It can't affect anything.

Like breaking a mirror can't give you 7 years bad luck, walking under a ladder doesn't bring bad luck. Putting shoes on your table doesn't bring bad luck. Opening an umbrella indoors doesn't bring bad luck. Not taking your decorations down won't bring the devil into your house. Spilling salt won't bring the devil into your house, it's not unlucky to pass someone on the stairs, it's not unlucky to...

People have this need to feel like they can prevent bad things from happening, or cause good things to happen by doing or avoiding doing something, or performing a ritual after doing something that would otherwise cause 'bad luck' (salt over your shoulder, saluting a magpie eg). It's not true. None of it's true.

sunnysunnyshine · 06/01/2013 09:32

I can't believe that anyone these days still actually believes old wives tales and superstitions! The pram has no power to cause any harm....

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Mrsb999 · 06/01/2013 09:34

Yep, pretty silly really! What about people that have no other choice but to keep it at home? Pisses me off because it can make people feel bad about something which, as some of you have pointed out, they have no control over!

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MarilynValentine · 06/01/2013 09:35

What a daft superstition!

Ignore it

TwitchyTail · 06/01/2013 09:46

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ILoveSaladReallyIDo · 06/01/2013 10:31

no don't believe it, and it's not practicible for people buying second hand who don't have a relative with convenient spare space near by. Also not possible for non PFBs as with no2 I might have to do a preschool run the day I get back from hospital so can't be waiting around for delivery/relative or friend to drop it off..
.. and what if you've kept your pram from no1? do you then remove it from your house while pregnant until no2 comes???? even though it was in the house when you conceived??

Lora1982 · 06/01/2013 11:19

Pfft im currently having to deal with this now. Mum is storing it at her house because her mum 'would turn in her grave' if she let us have it now... 40+2.... She allowed us to have a play with it to refamiliarise but noway is it llowed here.

Ive had to give her my keys so it can be dropped off when im in hospital pita if you ask me.

Rainbowbabyhope · 06/01/2013 11:25

I allowed myself to be suspicious because of family beliefs with DD1 and didn't prepare for her at all. She was stillborn anyway - makes absolutely no difference.

beckslovestimmy · 06/01/2013 11:33

My mother insisted on this too, so I organised for it to be delivered to her house and then she moaned she'd have to wait in for delivery, she's even more annoyed as it's had to be delivered in 2 parts on 2 separate days! It was easier to do this than argue with her. We just made sure we've got the car seat ready in the car, luckily she only lives 5 mins away so can pick it up easily. I was going to keep it folded in the car ready to go if I didn't have mother to contend with!

backwardpossom · 06/01/2013 11:37

Mum wouldn't allow us to keep the pram at ours with DS and made us keep it at her house. She relented on the car seat so that if I went into labour, we had it with us. I'm pregnant with DC2 and I've bought a new pram but haven't told her that

mumofthemonsters808 · 06/01/2013 11:41

I never had the pram in my house for both of mine but it's down to personal choice, do what you feel comfortable with.

EnjoyResponsibly · 06/01/2013 11:45

No way. Pram didn't arrive until after DS did. Only thing in house was Moses basket and a small layette.

MrsHoarder · 06/01/2013 11:45

It dates from when prams used to be passed around the community for when someone had a baby, probably to stop one person hogging it. Don't listen.

DoItToJulia · 06/01/2013 11:48

Nonsense!

I wanted my pram aired and smelling of our home before baby went in it, so it needed to be at my house.

Ignore ignore ignore!

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