New pushchair with sitting buggy board - advice please

[tartyhighheels]

By the time this new baby makes an appearance by lovely son will be about 22 months old. He is a runny-about type and we love the reins but I do need to get another pushchair. I currently have a petite star zia which i have no complaints with except that in the reclined position (which i will need for the baby) I cannot get a buggy board on and the bigger boy will not be able to see over the top. I am thinking what i need is a mummy facing pushchair and a buggy board with a seat on - JL still have some bugaboo bees (the old style one) coming into stock in a few weeks so i am tempted - £299 stills stings but not as much as £419!

I don't use a pushchair an awful lot, it does need to fit in my car without being too huge and i guess it needs to be easy to put on the bboard and take it off again.

I just wondered if you have any recommendations, I just cannot bear the thought of a huge double buggy, even a phil and teds but be massive when folded up and although i have a land rover i also will have four children so size is an issue as it spends most of its time being carted about in the car.

Does this combination exist? Or will i be never be able to go into town again on my own???

Can you not put baby in a carrier on your front for a while?

well i tried this with my son, two different kinds but they always hurt my back (i am extremely elderly and have had a hard life!)

I just know that really i need to have them both in pushchair of some sorts and have no idea where to start.

I have just seen a joovy pushchair that mothercare stock - the front seat is only useful from 6 months apparently but does anyone have one of these?

No but im in the same predicament as you apart from ds will be abit older so was nosey at the mothercare site, it is very ugly but brilliant looking and getting dh to consider it now, the front seat can have the maxi cosy car seat so that it can be from newborn. Wow you have really made my day

The ugly ones are very popular in the US apparently - my prob is in a land rover bizarely enough only a very few car seats fit and not the type you use in this - it has to be a fixed one so i would be carrying a car seat and a pushchair... bah! i too like the ugly one though it looks ideal as you can secrue them on the seat and that seeam a problem with sitting buggy biards - they can just leap off!

What kinds of carrier did you try, the ones in most shops are awful for backs but you can get some decent ones, Mei Tai or wrap type slings are good.

I know what you mean about the sit on buggy boards, i'd already imagine ds leaping off and jumping into the road.
It would be easier to get on the train than the giant tandem i have bought aswell.

But even if i have a carrier - i will still need a pushchair - i already have two slings a snuggly nest type one - which i think have now been discredited and a good tomy one that i had fitted and all but still cripples me. My babies start off at at least nine pounds so i don't hold out much hope!

anyone?