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Best Buggy?

51 replies

Matlow · 02/11/2006 11:44

I am due to have my second child in february (my son will be 3 and 1/2). Have a Maclaran techno xt and Maclaran Volo for travel. Not very exited about them and would like a new buggy for my daughter....ahhh love saying that!) which can be used from newborne, will accomodate a buggy board, is easily manouvered and really cool to look at. It won't be used on public transport much and I have a big boot. Money is not particularly an issue. I am thinking about the bugaboo but there are so many around I don't want to be a sheep unless they really are the best. People have mentioned mountain buggies and quinny, microlite and phi and teds as possibles. Which is genuinely the most stylish and efficient buggy?

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TuttiFrutti · 02/11/2006 12:08

I have a bugaboo which I love, it is really easy to manoeuvre and I've never needed to buy another buggy for different situations.

lanismum · 02/11/2006 13:06

after buying 4 different prams, i finally got a mountain buggy, its lovely, very easy to push, nice to look at (well i think it is), i havent found anything i dislike about it in the 6 months iv had it.

amazonianwoman · 02/11/2006 19:31

Another vote for the Mountain Buggy (I bored everyone silly on here trying to make a decision!).

I had a Bugaboo Frog, which is still a fantastic buggy in that it has a cot, is reversible, manoeuvrable in small spaces etc, but I prefer my Mt Buggy - DD is much comfier (in fact she doesn't like to get out of it, which wasn't the intention, as she's being ousted in favour of baby no.2 in March lol), seat is larger, it folds in one piece, it pushes itself, is FANTASTIC on all terrains (Bugaboo was pants on the beach/rough ground), has large accessible basket/pockets etc, has viewing window, DH prefers it, you can add a Kiddyboard and still walk behind the buggy and not off to one side, there aren't so many around...

Just get one

accessorizequeen · 02/11/2006 22:17

I third everything that aw & lanismum said...cannot believe how easy my mountain buggy is to push & manoevre compared to my bugaboo. They're doing a special girly design at present I think tho I couldn't find it when I looked just now.
But having said all that, if you want really cool you might find the bug more your thing esp with the colours available now. Both MB's and bugaboo's will take a buggy board but if your son will be 3 and a half he might not need it much anyway?

hub2dee · 02/11/2006 22:23

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Matlow · 03/11/2006 15:53

Thanks for the replies, I will look a bit more closely at the Mountain buggy, does anyone know good site to buy from?

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hub2dee · 03/11/2006 16:58

I'd recommend Nigel .

(no connection to me btw).

HotterOtter · 03/11/2006 17:05

bugaboo every time - they simply ARE the best. I forward faced my ds today and it was such a pain - keep checking if he was awake/asleep/ alive!! ( I jest)
With mountain buggy you have to have this - with bugaboo you have the choice!

misdee · 03/11/2006 17:07

i was lusting over the lime green mb c drive on ebay......

misdee · 03/11/2006 17:08

but i just traded in all my buggies to get a pliko (LVAD strps on the back so is in the car) and a quinny buzz. which is great. rear facing is a must for me i am afraid.

amazonianwoman · 03/11/2006 19:32

There is a good viewing window in the MB to check on little one.

I'd 2nd h2d's recommendation of nigel - v v helpful, really knows his stuff.

MBs are also good value on groovystyle.co.uk - scroll down here to see the absolutely FAB flower power model which I think is still in stock. Would've loved this one if I knew I was having another girl

xena · 03/11/2006 19:40

Misdee!! I thought you bought a loola??

xena · 03/11/2006 19:41

and was just coming back to say that rearward facing is very important to me... but realised that misdee had already said it!!

hub2dee · 03/11/2006 20:03

I understand that rear-facing has been said to have some kind of impact on improved language learning (I haven't actually seen any studies on this though), but I still don't quite get the fascination with this... I mean, above a certain age babies like to see the world about them more than just staring at mum or dad don't they ?

Re: MB - they do a carrycot which is fabulous - baby can lay flat and you can stick their head at either end ;-) and also they do a clip system for carseats if you are that way inclined (geddit ?). I've tried the carrycot, not the carseat.

Stokke XPlory also can rear face.

xena · 03/11/2006 20:45

I don't really know if it helps there speech or not but when we walk along the road I chat to the other DC's but DS2 can't be included if facing forward? eh make sense?

hub2dee · 03/11/2006 20:47

But he'll still hear, understand, grunt back etc.

It's got to be lke facing the wrong way on a train, LOL.

HotterOtter · 03/11/2006 20:53

I think there were studies Hub ...I know that the pushchair market has revolutionised in the past 5 years to rear face more because of criticism.
Foundation stage teachers were saying language skills were poor in 4 year olds and prams were cited as a major factor.
I do believe it has an impact. One cannot converse in the same way to a child facing away from you.
They still see out of the pram - so they do not 'miss' anything.
I had three children before i discovered the delights of rear facing . I now have five and would not put them in anything else.

hub2dee · 03/11/2006 21:04

I reckon any decline in language skills would be because of the increase in time spent watching television, or away from a one-to-one carer (ie. increase in nursery attendance), but I'd be interested in looking at relevant research abstracts.

xena · 03/11/2006 21:21

Hotterotter (notanotter?). DD2 is our third child and her language isn't as good as DS1 and DD1's at the same age (although it has improved dramitically since DD1 has been at school and she has been allowed to speak for herself )

xena · 03/11/2006 21:24

Hadn't thought it of it like sitting backwards in a train hub

hub2dee · 03/11/2006 21:45

LOL.

Interesting about your dd2 piping up now that dd1 is at school, xena.

Also, how much time does one hope one's children actually spend in the buggy (awake anyway ! )... For the vast majority of the day they're playing / cuddling / eating spiders etc.

accessorizequeen · 03/11/2006 22:04

Haven't we been round this before? Can everyone on mumsnet even afford a rear-facing pram as they're all at the top of the range? Does it mean anyone who can't afford a bugaboo etc doesn't care enough about their child? I'm really curious about this 'research' partly because I fail to see how an hour or so a day spent in a forward facing pram can make such a big difference if the parent is interacting with the child the rest of the day? How many hours do most babies/toddlers spend in a pram anyway?? Personally, even with ds in forward facing pushchair , I seem to be stopping every five metres to answer some query (he usually insisted on forward facing with the bugaboo anyway).
Agree with hub on this, I think the amount of tv makes far more difference to language development than the buggy. and how do you stuff a mars bar down you if child facing you all the time

misdee · 03/11/2006 22:11

i did have a loola, but i couldnt lift it up over kerbs in rear mode as was too heavey. so sold it and some other stuff and picked up a buzz for under £200, much lighter on steering and doesnt hurt my hands (i have problems with my hands atm).

tbh hub, rear facing is important to me for various things

i spend at least 90mins a day walking with dd3 in the pushchair, and she loves to chat to me and dd1+2 who hold the buggy either side as wel walk along.

dd2 has speech problems, i want to help dd3 in any way possible to try and avoid the problems dd2 has.

i can see easier if she chucks her mittens out

i can see when she has fallen asleep and lie her down instead of her being seated upright, and trying to peer over to see if she has nodded off.

dd3 doesnt spend all her time staring at me, today she spotted a hot air balloon and pointed it out and said bool.

also i do like to watch her as she is my baby.

accessorizequeen · 03/11/2006 22:14

phaps this is just my guilt at having swapped rear-facing for forward-facing recently (new baby due in 6 weeks) although I'm going to use a carrycot

xena · 03/11/2006 22:25

ohh misdee I got such a good deal on my buzz (is yours new?) I bought a very lightly used 2nd hand one that came with a carry cot which I didn't need (I asked them if they would split it for me to which they said no it wasn't worth their while) I paid £200 and put the carrycot on BIN the next day for £75 and it sold in hours
Can you tell this is my specialist subject

AQ I don't personally think that it affects speech just my personnal preference and also sometimes I get to take DS2 shopping on his own so get to 'talk' just to him where as I don't at home IYSWIM

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