Getting buggies up hills?

[r3dh3d]

I mean for those of us for whom (is that right? for whom?) powered chairs aren't really appropriate and our LOs are getting a bit heavy.

I've just jerry-rigged an arrangement of straps so that if there are 2 adults in the party, one can pull and the other can push. But that's not going to work forever, is it? What am I going to do when DD1 is 18 and I have to get to the top of the high street with her?

lol r3dh3d, i thought i was the only one who worried about these things - i ponder it frequently driving through villages 'what a lovely place (sigh) couldn't live here...'

on a slightly hysterical note, we're moving to canada this summer. the town is flat, but it's surrounded by mountains lol.

dd2 can walk, but can't manage inclines...

on a slightly different note, i know a few people who use attendant controlled powerchairs. so there are options if it is the fact that dd1 can't control a chair herself. not really looked into it despite my background concerns...

And if you park your LO in them and attach your bonkers dog to the handlebars, the dog pulls the whole arrangement over backwards, to the highly vocal disgruntlement of your now inverted LO.

you need to attach the dog lower lol. we've got two dogs now and not trialled them as a team . it's safer if we use the 3 wheeler tbh...

Down hill is as bad. I took our 3 out in the new buggy for the preschool run yesterday. DD1 (3.5, GDD & Epilepsy) & DD2 21 months, in the side-by-side seats, DD3 (4 weeks) in the top seat.

We walked down a hill and needed to go down a kerb to cross the road. As we went down the kerb, the whole buggy flipped over on top of all three girls

Thankfully, DDs 2&3 completely untouched, but DD1 banged her forehead on the road . She seems OK, but quite frightening.

and do the catwalk walk because of the anti-tips lol.
someone somewhere did point out that no-one did a physio assessment to see if the wheelchair suited the carer, as well as the individual.

fortunately i am very short. dh can;t push as he's a foot taller and they 'forgot' the adjustable handles...

Either Huskies or electric asstist for the pusher.
I am a terrible driver always crashing & tipping him up.

ds i smallluckily enough failing that when it comes to ahill I make allow his big brothers to push

Ahh another eason to live in Suffolk... its soooo flat!

I was offered a job in Bergen last year. Not only is it the wettest place in Europe: it clings to a blooming mountainside!

We are staying put.

My nightmare is of both dcs (12 and 8 needing the wheelchair on the same day). What does one do under those circumstances?

I've toyed with the idea of stacking DD2 on top of DD1. Only DD1 would chew DD2 and I couldn't bear the whining...

Hills do me in too, and dd2 is only 5, and only in the Major until after the summer when she will hopefully be on her feet again.

Last week I loaded so much shopping on the back of the buggy that when I took a hand off to push the crossing button, dd2 tipped over backwards . It also broke a bottle of wine!