Mums with 2 under 2 I need your guidance 🙏❤️

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Hi firstly thanks for taking the time to stop and read!
So we are due our 2nd baby in October. Our Daughter will be just past 21 months when her sibling arrives 🙂

We will have 2 under 2 and i am really trying to prepare myself for getting out and about and trying to find the best solution. So I have a baby carrier and stroller as an option. But this will not always be do able. Ive had a look Breifly at prams and strollers. Alot of doubles are basically designed for twins...

So my question is how do you do it??? Any mum with 2 under 2 with tips and guidance please help 🙏
Anyone who knows of suitable pram/stroller solutions for a new born and 21 months old please point me in the right direction!
I am so excited ❤️❤️🥰🥰 -we all are as a family! - but my mind has been in overdrive on what will it do this last week 🫠🫠 Thank you x

Hey, congratulations.

initially I never bothered. We are rural and with lockdown never really needed something for town. I then had the younger in an out and about and the older on a scooter or sitting in with her sister if tired. I did have a buggy board which was handy on a longer walk.

I don’t think I would have used a twin buggy as by the time the baby could go in it the two year old would be wanting to walk, run away.

we then progressed to everyone can walk and I would take a festival trolley. All four still fight to get in it.

With double prams there is a bassinet conversion add-on, which you discard once they are a toddler. That means they can sit side by side from day one. Look up the Out n About for rural, or YoYo for city.

Baby Jogger City mini double was brilliant, easy to handle & fold and suitable from birth. Decent basket underneath for shopping.
I had this age gap and did a lot of walking and definitely got a lot of use out of it.

@murkydepths @PigglyWiggle @pteromum
Thanks for commenting and the recommendations. We will definitely want to be out and about, I enjoy being active and we are rural so definitely need something to hold both children in - of course our daughter can walk but there will be days and certain walks with our dogs she will be safer contained with the smaller baby.

I shall certainly look these up.

We had the joie signature 360 spin that came with everything and it's still in lovely condition, especially the newborn bassinet. Just feels criminal buy another when we have this but heading out daily with the two without having the option of having our toddler secured would be unsafe and stressful for me 😅😅 xx

Mine are 19 months apart and when my second was born let me tell you… I could not have survived without a double pushchair! We got the Ickle Bubba Venus Prime and a year on it’s still our most used purchase.

I think it really depends on the children but for me these are the reasons it was and still is massively needed:

My little girl was a beautiful big chunky baby, no way in hell was I going to be carrying her around in a carrier on every outing!
My little boy (now 2.5) is lazy tires easily and still doesn’t like long stretches of walking
When my girl was a newborn I used to love taking them to the park every morning and she’d sleep in there while I took my boy on the swings and slides

They're now 1 and 2.5 and I take them to National Trust places, long walks, shopping, so many places outdoor and I still couldn’t get by without it