pushchair for a disabled 3 year old

[buffythenappyslayer09]

hi everyone!
i havent been on here for soo long!!its all changed!!
anyway,i have 2 little girls with cystic fibrosis.my eldest of the two has a maclaren major elite.both of them get out of breath when walking and cant walk far without having breathing probs.
my other lo is 3 years old,and is about too big for my bugaboo cameleon.ive been looking for another pushchair,but theres too many!i had a maclaren xlr for my 6yo when she was younger but the wheels went stupid on it so im reluctant to get another.
just wondering if anyone has any advice on this.i dont want to get another major elite just yet,there not girly enough for me!!!but i do wnat something that is big enough for her and that she will be comfy in.
thank you in advance!!!
buffy

Hi Buffy, I used the Baby Jogger City Mini for my big 3YO and it was great, very easy to fold, light and small(ish) and good to push.

Buffy - DD2 (3.4y/o 15.5kg, 105cm) has just been (sort of) diagnosed with arthritis and I have had to go back to a double pushchair as DD3 is only 18m. We went with a Baby Jogger City Mini double and it's fab (though it's not parent facing).

DD1 has even cadged a ride and has room to grow (she is 5.1y/o, 113cm and 20kg). It seems very comfortable for all the DDs and DD3 has taken to climbing in to go to sleep! The seats can slump a little if you recline them and then put them back upright with the child still in the seat as the seat seems fix upright better without the child in (though I have heard this has been fixed with the latest edition). If you do the seat up empty you can get it really upright like a dining chair rather an easy chair IYSWIM.

I really recommend this even the double is really light and the folding is incredibly fast. The only down side is it's not very girly (I have the black, red and cream colour way).

baby jogger are good, and very generous. as are mountain buggies

the seat on the baby jogger micro is a little bit taller than the mini. the only other differences between the 2 are that the micro has smaller wheels and the seat doesn't recline much, but for a 3 yr old that's not necessarily a problem!

thanks everyone ,will have a look.i had a phil and teds sport but the tyres kept coming off the wheels,mothercare replaced it twice (kept happening) and then sent me a letter saying i had been sent a european model and not a uk model,so that went back.didnt trust it to gte another!!will have a look at the baby jogger,thanks again!!

hi my ds who also has cf was in his nipper until he was 5 he slept in it also when necessary. he was 19kg and i could still push him miles.
he was too big for a mountain buggy and it was harder to push.

hi raindroprhyme.whats a nipper??!!i looked at the baby jogger and the mountain buggy.dh likes the mountain buggy but just saaw what you said about the mountain buggy.dd is 12kg at the mo (shes 3 1/2).how is your ds?my other cf dd (6 years) is trying a new nebuliser,tobi solution through an i-neb.she has tobermycin when she has iv,and tobi is the nebulised version.sorry to talk cf when i only asked about buggys!!
we live ina very rural area and tehre arent any pram shops near us,so im having to look on the internet at them,but want to know what others recommend before i buy one,dont want to get something that turns out to be rubbish!!

It is a out and about nipper.

DS keeps really well, he has only just grown pseudo for the first time which is good going, and had our first lot of IV's at the begining of the year. We are really battling with physio since he started school has realised he is different i think. I was really lucky that ds has always been a good eater and continues to weigh a ton. Iceland is our friend.

DS is 22kg now and was happy in his nipper when we went to a music festival in the summer, was still able to sleep in it and was great off road.
The mountain buggy i felt was just too big and heavy, not sure if it actually weighs more but wasn't as easy to push.
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