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Do you even need a pushchair?

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JamDad · 06/10/2018 17:10

Hi all,

Baby is still a bump, so I’m just trying to determine what we really need.

A car seat is essential.

We don’t really go shopping and buy most things online, so we’re mainly going to be between car and people’s houses, with a bit of strolling in the park.

Can we carry a tiny one in one of those papooses and not need a push chair?

Or maybe we just need a car seat and a very lightweight stroller?

What do people think?

OP posts:
Blondebakingmumma · 08/10/2018 03:50

I use a carrier and pram. As bub gets bigger and heavier it’s a relief to be able to put in a pram and have a break from holding

E20mom · 08/10/2018 04:55

My baby refused to ever stay in a sling. If yours is like that then the decision will be made for you and you'll need a pram!

speakout · 08/10/2018 07:19

I never used a puchchair or a pram.

It depends on your circumstances.

A pram would have been useless for me- when my kids were young we lived in the country- muddy paths with rocks and turfs of grass in every direction.
I used a sling until they could walk.
Trips out were in the car, buggies useless for supermarkets.
I have never owned a buggy or a pram.

NotMeNoNo · 08/10/2018 07:26

It's a good idea to wait until baby is born and you know how they react /where they sleep best. If you decide to get a pram then you will have a better idea what you want, can look at what other families using etc. Also there is a great secondhand market in prams/pushchairs.

GummyGoddess · 08/10/2018 09:01

I have a pushchair and don't use it, both children prefer to be carried. My eldest has just turned 2, he sits on a hip seat on one side, my youngest is 4 months and he goes in a woven wrap hip carry on the other side and I use a backpack.

Make sure you both carry asap after birth if you're going down this route. I now carry around 50lb of children plus backpack on a daily basis and it's OK, if I had just had this weight put upon me suddenly I would struggle.

PinkAvocado · 08/10/2018 11:05

Pushchair is so important - you won't want to be carrying a heavy 15 month about

As lots have said, this is not necessarily true. If you carry from birth, you build up to the 15 month old weight. You adjust how you carry too.

How do people do full shop in a supermarket (if that’s how you shop) with a pushchair? I’d find a push chair so restrictive!

bellinisurge · 08/10/2018 11:13

Childbirth crippled me temporarily. Without a push chair I would never have got out.

fruityb · 08/10/2018 12:55

Full shop in supermarket - trollies have seats in!

LisaSimpsonsbff · 08/10/2018 13:26

But you can't put a baby who can't sit up in a supermarket trolley seat, though, can you? We get a big supermarket shop delivered a week so most of my trips to the supermarket are excuses to get me out of the house quick trips to pick up one bar of chocolate forgotten item and I tend to use the sling then anyway, so I haven't paid it much attention!

speakout · 08/10/2018 13:30

They have trollies for babies at my supermarket.
They have trollies that you can put a car seat in too.

LisaSimpsonsbff · 08/10/2018 13:47

Ah ok - I've never seen them but I've never looked either! Carrying the car seat around out of the car is my equivalent of all the people who can't believe I can carry him in the sling for so long, though - I just can't carry the seat with a stone of baby in it, or even really get it off the floor with him in it! Which proves that it's whatever you get used to, because I know lots of people who use the car seat as transport outside the car with no problem with equally chunky babies.

speakout · 08/10/2018 13:50

They have these at my Tesco- for babies that can't yet sit unaided- even twin ones too.

Do you even need a pushchair?
speakout · 08/10/2018 13:52

Also have trollies that you can secure a car seat to

Do you even need a pushchair?
fruityb · 08/10/2018 17:16

I used the car seat trollies all the time - they were great!

jennymor123 · 09/10/2018 15:22

My advice is don't buy British. Our baby car seats, prams, buggies, etc (and mattresses) are stuffed with flame retardant chemicals which are toxic, babies particularly vulnerable. The reason is that the UK has the toughest furniture flammability laws in the world. Which wouldn't be quite so bad if they worked - but the government itself proved they don't four years ago. Which means our children are absorbing flame retardants on a massive scale, both from their bedding and means of transport, for no reason other than profits for the chemical industry. If you can, buy from anywhere else in the EU (except Ireland which has the same furniture laws as us).

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