Desperate to stop 18 mo dog from pulling on the lead

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Hello, I have a beautiful 18 month old Collie X he has a great temperment and he is brilliant with people and other dogs. He is a generally chilled out little fella. However, I never persevered with any methods of trying to teach him how not to pull on the lead. I walk him in town on my break from work (he comes to work with me) This is getting more tricky because I'm 25 weeks pregnant and he pulled so hard last week in the rain that I fell and really hurt myself. I blame myself for not training him properly in the first place, but genuinely I found nothing worked, he is 17kg and I'm panicking now about trying to walk him and push a buggy at the same time. Off the lead when we are at home is fine but in town he eeds to be on the lead.
Any advice would be welcome TIA :)

Thank you all so much for your advice, we're at home today so it will be off lead walking. I will certainly get a harness, it looks (to me) an easier version for him than the one that goes on his face too. He is 17kg so hopefully it will be enough.

Chickens you will be going around in circles for a while and might not get to go on the walk at all, but I promise it works in the end because you will be consistently rewarding good behaviour and not rewarding bad behaviour. Most of us run after our pulling dogs, effectively saying "Yep, you pull and we get to get there a lot faster!" which is rewarding them for pulling. This technique reverses the rewards. Good luck.

If you want to try a dogmatic I have an xl you could borrow. i would want it back for new dog, as current one now ancient sedate stroller and no need of it. just PM me if you are interested, but it may be far too big.