Need a nan pushchair

acl2009

barbiedoll wrote: »

Pram envy....lol!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I work in a clinic which is based in a very deprived area. And loads of the new mums spend their hard-earned £500 maternity grant on a Bugaboo or similar. :mad:

They're really not particularly exclusive!

Must bite tongue at phrase "hard earned maternity grant" :mad:
I had to pay for my Bugaboo with my own hard earned money!

Buttonmoons

Crazy, I used some 3rd hand travel system that had been in the family, it was blue and I had a girl - I didnt care, Im pretty sure she didn't either, I liked the diet coke can holder on it. Then she went into that mothercare £30 pink thing. Job done. Shes now 6, no back brace required.

Dontknowanymore

OMG this thread had made me :rotfl:
I know MrsE personally so know that her daughter would have been consulted along the way, I also know that she would not buy anything that looked or seemed manky! The lady has class She just doesn't feel the need to spend a million quid on a buggy for her grandson.
Seeing as she managed to bring her daughter up to be a fine young woman, I am guessing her daughter beleives she is capable of making decisions such as buying a suitable buggy for when she looks after little man.
As for the parents providing the buggy, the OP would not have a bar of it

koalamummy

Sorry Dontknowanymore as I hopefully made clear in my post I did not mean to cause any offence by suggesting that the parents buy the pushchair.

I was in the same position with my own mum a while ago where she found the pushchairs (there were several of them! ) I had bought for my 3 year old son too fiddly and cumbersome to use on the occasions that he was with her. Possibly because she is a pensioner, but most probably because she is my mum and was helping me out I would not have considered letting her pay for something that ultimately was for my benefit. I suspected that MrsE's daughter may have felt the same.

I ended up going on a shopping trip with my mum and son to look at pushchairs she liked and could manage to get my boy in and out of and manage comfortably. I then sneaked off with some ridiculous excuse so that I could beat her to the sales area to pay for it! :rotfl:

Dontknowanymore

koalamummy wrote: »

Sorry Dontknowanymore as I hopefully made clear in my post I did not mean to cause any offence by suggesting that the parents buy the pushchair.

I was in the same position with my own mum a while ago where she found the pushchairs (there were several of them! ) I had bought for my 3 year old son too fiddly and cumbersome to use on the occasions that he was with her. Possibly because she is a pensioner, but most probably because she is my mum and was helping me out I would not have considered letting her pay for something that ultimately was for my benefit. I suspected that MrsE's daughter may have felt the same.

I ended up going on a shopping trip with my mum and son to look at pushchairs she liked and could manage to get my boy in and out of and manage comfortably. I then sneaked off with some ridiculous excuse so that I could beat her to the sales area to pay for it! :rotfl:

No offence taken, I was just meaning that even if the OP's daughter insisted, the OP would not have a bar of it.

MrsE_2

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

Does your son / daughter know you will be getting a nan pram?

I only ask as my baby is the same age as your grandson and we also have a bugaboo.

I would be quite offended after paying all that money for my baby to be in a good comfortable pram, that their grandparent would put them in a much inferior one.

Yes she does & I bought the Bugaboo;)

MrsE_2

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

OMG this thread had made me :rotfl:
I know MrsE personally so know that her daughter would have been consulted along the way, I also know that she would not buy anything that looked or seemed manky! The lady has class She just doesn't feel the need to spend a million quid on a buggy for her grandson.
Seeing as she managed to bring her daughter up to be a fine young woman, I am guessing her daughter beleives she is capable of making decisions such as buying a suitable buggy for when she looks after little man.
As for the parents providing the buggy, the OP would not have a bar of it

Thank you mate & I got you a fridge magnet;)

MrsE_2

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

No offence taken, I was just meaning that even if the OP's daughter insisted, the OP would not have a bar of it.

Lol
I bought the sainted Bugaboo:rotfl:

Dontknowanymore

MrsE wrote: »

Thank you mate & I got you a fridge magnet;)

Ooh I don't have a turkey one yet! I will have to pop round or you can pop in here

MrsE wrote: »

Lol
I bought the sainted Bugaboo:rotfl:

Hehe, see people! see! :rotfl:

Marisco

I've just googled Bugaboo images, why is everyone raving about them???? They are nothing special, in fact a couple of them are horrible!!! Give me one of these any day!!

http://www.silvercross.co.uk/Classic-Prams/

Then when they are older

http://www.silvercross.co.uk/pushchairs/