WIBU to change my (very expensive) pram three months in??

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First baby, now three months. We got most of our baby stuff second hand except the car seat and the buggy. The buggy was our big splash-out item, we got money towards it from both sets of parents.

We ended up going for the bugaboo bee 6 as people seem to love it and I thought it would be a good compromise for London: small enough for buses etc but sturdy enough to go off-road, unlike the yoyo.

Three months in and I absolutely hate it! The bassinet feels wobbly, it’s the exact wrong length to bump up the step into our house, it’s way too big for me to manage one-handed on the tube, and it’s got buggerall storage so it’s crap to go shopping with - you can’t even access the underseat compartment from the front. I generally avoid using it at all costs and lug him around in the sling which is hell on my back and residual SPD.

I’ve been fantasising about buying an Uppababy Cruz which I adored in the shop but talked myself out of. However I feel this would be idiotic of me given we already have such an expensive pram. Also baby is gonna be big enough to use it like an ordinary stroller in three months and I might hate it less once he isn’t in that wobbly bassinet.

I feel like my options, in descending order of thrift and sensibleness, are:

1. Suck it up until he’s 6 months and see how I feel then
2. Buy the newborn cocoon for now so at least he’s not in that awful bassinet anymore
3. Buy a Cruz second hand (more of a faff than buying from a shop and DH is a bit queasy about second hand prams, worried about hygiene and safety)
4. Go insane, say fuck it, buy the vista of my dreams brand new and sell

the bugaboo at a loss

WWYD? I feel like such a dick having fluffed the big spendy purchase.

I love the bugaboo butterfly. X

Thanks for your input everyone!

Update: my phone was stolen on the bus on the way home from our anniversary dinner tonight 😖. So definitely no new expensive pram purchases for the time being! I'd already found a nice man up the road who's selling the bugaboo cocoon for £5 and I'm picking it up tomorrow. Hopefully that will fix the biggest issue. And I'll bear your recommendations in mind when I revisit in a few months. Thanks again for all the helpful advice! x

I bought a secondhand (well preserved) yo-yo from a friend and am really quite disappointed. Yes it's small and easy to fold, but everything else is a nuisance. It's so noisy and rattling unless the surface is completely smooth, the storage basket is somehow inaccessible, you can't really push it one handedly on uneven London pavements and it's no good going off road. It's ok for a second/travel stroller but way overpriced for it. It just feels cheaply made. DS is 1 and if he's anything like his older brother, he will ditch the stroller completely by the time he's two so it's not really worth it for me to replace it.

We have the bee6 and I was also disappointed by the basket and the way the wheels sometimes go weird on steps and that it's sold as a compact pram but it's not really all that compact folded or lightweight.... BUT I love it now (my daughter is 14months). We have a supercompact for travelling which I thought would end up being used all the time but the bee always wins out. The options for how upright it sits are great on the bee which might be important for your kid, and I'm appreciating its small footprint more and more.

Confused by the wobbly bassinet comments though... You can tell there's suspension in the adaptors so there's give, but I wouldn't call ours wobbly....

I have a bee (5) but didn’t get it until DD was 12 months - I had a Fox before then but found it a hassle once I was back at work and on and out of the car more.

I didn’t have a bassinet but loved the pushchair. I also have an umbrella fold but hate it in comparison to the Bee which is so much nicer to push. My very tall DD still fits in it at almost 4.5 (she grew out of the Fox seat at 2.5). Everyone said I’d end up using the umbrella buggy but I never did as loved the Bee so much - you may find it better as a pushchair rather than pram.

If you need extra storage I’d recommend the mammoth bag - it clips on to the frame. I had one and it was brilliant.

Update on this, for anyone scrolling with pushchair thoughts in the future: we did 2 and then 4. Found a second hand newborn cocoon on gumtree for £5 which did improve things a lot. That bassinet really is shit. Then I couldn’t resist picking up a Cruz V2 in the black Friday sales and oh my god I love it. It makes my life better every single day, I can’t believe I ever hesitated. I am in love with it. So smooth, so comfortable, so good looking, so easy to assemble, so sturdy, can fit anything I like in the basket, can push one handed round the shops while fully loaded. Baby loves it. It’s only 2kg heavier than the bee. Lesson learned! Not sure what lesson. But it’s learned! 😊