Pram recommendations for flats/cities

[Hrf1503]

Hi everyone - I’m looking tor recommendations for lightweight easy folding prams. All the ones I’ve tried so far have very heavy bassinets and I need to get it up three narrow flights of stairs with awkward corners. I can leave the base in the downstairs hallway. I’ve been recommended the yoyo but also heard mixed reviews and so wondering if anyone has any experience of yo-yo / other recommendations. Thanks!

Yoyo and Bugaboo Bee are great choices for your lifestyle. I would say Yoyo is the best for you though, as it has a hand shoulder strap meaning you can take it upstairs and carry baby.

Although, given the price of these, I would not want to leave it in an open hallway if your flat shared that space.

Whatever you get please just make sure the baby can lie completely flat for the first few months! (I.e. some sort of bassinet is important)

We had both a Bee and a YoYo. Much prefer the YoYo, so much easier to manage. My SIL also used one in their third floor flat and loved it too. We didn't use ours from birth but they did and had no issues with the bassinet. I regret getting our Bee now. We bought the YoYo for travel initially but it immediately became our everyday pram

Yo-yo

Love my yo-yo
One of the top five things I bought for a baby

I have three kids and all of them have used it

Yoyo.
get it with the newborn cocoon rather than newborn carrycot. Then it will fold in one piece to carry up and down even in newborn stage.

We have yoyo and it's been great for city and flat living.

I read the reviews and got hung up on the occasional negative one but no pram will have entirely positive reviews. Need to consider what feature is really important to you and find one that meets those. For me the only complaint for the yoyo is that the basket is a bit small, happy compromise considering how easy it has been to get around, fold down fit into small space etc.

We live in a flat and have bought a yoyo. It seems to easy and good quality.

Yoyo all the way. Best thing I ever bought for my child. So good for urban living and travelling - lightweight but robust enough

You absolutely need a sling/carrier too. So you put the baby the sling, the fold up the pram and carry it upstairs.

Hi everyone - thanks for the feedback. We went to see the yoyo this weekend and the bassinet seems absolutely tiny to me! How long did your babies stay in the bassinet / newborn cocoon thing??

@Hrf1503 - the babyzen nest is 78cm long. The bassinet 77cm. As comparison our mountain buggy one is 82cm.

But they will fit fine length wise in the nest until needed. Ds was out of carrycot by 4.5months as he could sit/ crawl/ pull up by then so it wasn’t safe and he wanted to see, rather than the length of not fitting. He was on the 99% length wise

I would happily use main seat on babyzen from about 3 months with the footmuff or sheepskin, so you would have overlap time if you stopped using nest at 4.5 months. The nest folds v the bassinet not if that’s important for travel

As a comparison for lengths. In Eu baby clothing sizes, it’s all in cm. 50cm is newborn. 74cm is 9months.
So even a baby at average 9 month size at 6 months would fit in almost all carrycots for length

We live in London and have a Yoyo, and so does pretty much everyone else around us! We do have a Bee too but I find it really heavy and clunky in comparison to the Yoyo so would never choose to use it on public transport. The downsides of the Yoyo are the size of the basket and the fact it can't parent face or lie flat in the 6+ setting. The Bee does both of those so might be a better bet for a younger baby, but you may come to wish you had a Yoyo when they're a bit older. We had the newborn nest but never had an issue of our baby growing out of it because she was fed up of lying flat before she got too big - I think we moved her up around five months. No one I knew actually kept their babies in the bassinet for the full six months.

Check out the Ergobaby Metro. It's a cheaper but just as good Yo-yo alternative that is for some reason much less well known. Like the Yo-yo, the newborn attachment is fully foldable but what I liked about it is that it is actually like a small bassinet so baby doesn't have to be strapped in, unlike in the foldable Yoyo newborn nest (we bought after she was born and my baby hated being constricted in a sling so we definitely didn't want to try the Yoyo, price aside). It also has a slightly larger rear wheel and I think does slightly better on roughish ground, though of course it's still a lightweight compact (and like the Yoyo, can go in the overhead locker on a plane)

Baby fitted happily in nest until 5.5 months, when she was ready for a more stimulating view. I was concerned about the size of the newborn nest but it wasn't an issue at all.

Stokke is amazing for city life!