Has anyone used a Bebe Confort Streety? I need a pram/pushchair for weaklings, any recs?

[BorgLady]

I need a pushchair that's going to be light and easy, because tbh, I'm a weakling!

The Bebe Confort Streety looks pretty good, though I have never seen one in the flesh and I know nothing at all about buggies.

I am hoping someone has one or knows something good and light they can recommend.

Would I be better off going the pram and then pushchair route? Would this be cheaper and easier? All the travel systems seem so heavy, I could barely pick up the car seat bit by itself, let alone when it's got a baby in it!

We've been looking at this too as I'm a real weed. We went to several stores to ask for a buggy that had v long handles (I'm quite tall and find most buggies cause me to stoop), allowed the baby to face forward and backwards and was under 10kg. We found 2 and both were travel systems (which I orginally ignored as I thought they'd be too heavy). I think we'll end up with the Bugaboo Chameleon which is less than 10kg in weight.... The other one was the Mamas & Papas pilko which is cheaper and has more stuff wiht it (but we realised we wouldn't use the stuff with it and was in the store when a couple were returning theirs because it broke).
Don't know if that's any use, but the big stores (mothercare or mamas & papas) are quite good if you give them specific requirements such as weight....

light weight does not = easy to push

big threewheelers like the Mountain Buggy, P&T etc or trad prams from eg Emmaljunga are often a dream to push because of their big wheels and good suspension - the weight is only an issue if you are hefting them in and out of cars etc

If you need something that you can heft in and out of the car, consider the Micralite (with a carrycot for a newborn, obv) or the Maclaren Techno. Both can take a carseat if you need them to but tbh it's much better for the baby to lie flat when not actually in the car.

Thanks MrsBadger, I hadn't thought of it like that. I haven't got my own car, so the only time weight would really be an issue, DP would be with me anyway.

Looking at the Streety, it looks like the newborn bit is just the car seat on the wheels anyway so baby would not be able to lie flat.

Perhaps I should be looking at a carrycot option.

Unfortunately, my local Mothercare is very small and they really don't have a lot of choice. I am going to try to get out of town and have a look in Toys R Us or something, where they have a much bigger selection and I can at least wheel them about a bit without knocking stuff over.

I've looked at the Pliko too pregnancy1 and while I like the shape of the pram, I REALLY hate the colours. LO is going to be a summer baby and they all seem so drab! Bugaboo is way out of my price range though, since my parents have offered to club together and buy it. Neither of them are very well off and I don't want to take the p*ss!

I'll have another look at the website and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for your help! Anyone else have any thoughts while I'm here?

phil and ted is superlight to push. if ds is a bit fractious i often pull it along by the bumper bar with one hand so i can walk next to him.

and it has a proper newborn bed. i am no fan of having baby in car seat too much.

he is asleep on my arm hence no capitals

I didn't realise there were problems with having baby in a car seat too much, thanks!

But I can't seem to see a pram that comes with wheels by itself, only as part of a system or something where you can clip it on to the frame of another buggy.

Is this inevitable? It's really going to increase the cost if so!

Often you buy a puschair and then buy a sepearate carry cot that fits on instead of the seat when the baby is small. Later you use the seat unit, so you're not wasting any money.

so for example here is the Britax Vigour pushchair, and here is the carrycot.

This often works out cheaper than buying a 'package' that includes a carset you don't need. Or if you do need a carseat to use occasionlly in someone else's car they can be good value.