Buying a buggy.

Gingham_Ribbon

Tried the graco buggy today. It was very light and easy to push. (My friend's little girl uses one and I got a play today.) It's sturdy and reliable. BUT my son didn't fit into it. His head came over the top of it and his arms wouldn't squash in the sides. And that was without his thick winter coat on.

Going to shop around for the mamas and papas one we saw yesterday and see if we can get it on line any cheaper. It seems like the best deal AND it converts for newborns which will hopefully be handy. I can't push the one he has any more without it grinding to a halt or veering off in the wrong direction!

Thanks again everyone. I really needed to bounce ideas off people who'd been there.

Gingham_Ribbon

Starting to break into a cold sweat because all the mamas and papas stuff is WAY more expensive than what the assistant told me the one I was looking at was. I'm really really hoping she was right. I can't find anything by them for £90 on line.

Oh heck! I had my heart set on it too!

Gingham_Ribbon

Found it! £79.99 in Glasgow pram centre! Thanks for the link, callansdad.

callansdad

Thanks, no problems

moo842

if you have one on the way you should try the phil and teds e3 explorer!! it goes from single to double really easily. we had ours for 2years and then sold it to sil. this is the best buggy i've ever had and all my freinds loved it too. it is so easy to push and fits two kiddies in easily mine are 3 1/2 and 18months and they still both fitted, we only sold it as the eldest needed to be encouraged to walk everywhere as he is getting older and if he saw it there he wanted to go in it!! i would recommend this buggy to anyone

bylromarha

I saw the phil and teds buggy in Boots yesterday and it looked really impressive. Buggy for 1 size, but toddler and newborn comfortbly accomodated.

I wanted to ask the mum how she found it to use, but thought that would have been a little odd...admiring the buggy rather than the newborn it was carrying.

jellyhead

i was looking at somebody's buggy today in mothercare but the baby was having a nappy change so i wasn't expected to look at her lol! it was a maclaren techno xt i think but they said they'd had lots of trouble with it and it was poor quality. has anyone else found that to be the case?

moo842

jellyhead wrote:

i was looking at somebody's buggy today in mothercare but the baby was having a nappy change so i wasn't expected to look at her lol! it was a maclaren techno xt i think but they said they'd had lots of trouble with it and it was poor quality. has anyone else found that to be the case?

yes i'm on my third maclaren in just 6 months as the brakes keep failing, am not overly impressed and am looking at getting a new buggy!!

Gingham_Ribbon

Jellyhead, I'm glad you said that. That was the other one big enough for my lad. (Only because it had a daft pad raising the seat hight a little. I would have been able to fashion something like that myself if need be.) It seemed expensive for what it was though at about 140!

I like the maclaren we have but the brakes have never worked without being heartily kicked. I can't wait for the new one. There was no postage charge either so I got a very good deal.

If I was already pregnant, or my lad was younger, I would definately have gone for that 'Bill and Ted's one though. It looks really easy to use. I'm hoping that he'll be able to walk beside me by this time next year, even on our long jaunts.

Spendless

GR- There are 3 years and 4 weeks between my 2 and I never had a double buggy. We just kept eldest pushchairs as well as daughters pram. There was only odd occassions when we were going places as a family that we needed to take a pushchair for both of them. However son was in a private nursery when youngest was born 3 mornings a week and I dropped him off by car. When he started school nursery it's a 2 minute walk from my house. I might have had to reconsider what I used if we'd lived further away.