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I do hate seeing new born babies squashed up in the them orrid carseat buggy contraptions....I always think of newborn babies lay on soft sheets with primary bright colours ...

No, not just you - I hate it also. and I think it's so very bad for the baby to be scrunched up in a little ball.

Come back the pram! where have they gone to? you very rarely see one nowadays.

Jac xxx

Possibly display sheets too
I have to agree with you Hayley

They were a god send for me when mine were babies Hayley lol.

The car seat used to click onto a pram base.....Wailing baby at 8,30.... had to.take toddler to playgroup though ......put baby in car seat......car motion would send baby to sleep....take her out still in seat when we got there....absolutely sparko....settle toddler in......then pop her back in the car still sound asleep and undisturbed.......into the cot once home as she was deep enough asleep to stay asleep....BINGO.....couple of hours peace lol.

NO WAY would I have got that without the car seat !!! xx

I had a big pram for mine
Did a lot of walking as it didnt fold down to go on a bus
lol

No please dont get me wrong Muffy your a mother who drives....so of course a big pram or any pram would of been no used to you at all....when my were babies about 10 years ago or so I walked everything school shops where to hand if I went in to town I walked everywhere and had a pushcahir for when I didnt....both my sisters are Nanas and I am please to say even theirGrand babies where in prams...little ones but lay flat....its when you see them walking I dont see the point of them when they dont even drive...

I don't mind the new style pram/car seat multi thingy.... but what I am totally opposed to is front facing pushchairs!! A child needs to be facing towards his or her carer... I have been against them for years, but new research has proven me right... the average child has better communication skills when they can interact with their mum/dad or whoever!! They can't do that when they are facing away from you.

I had a proper coach pram for my two... with all white frilly bedding when they were tiny.

Love

Daff xxxx

Awww not a nicer sight than a new baby in a pram in summer with a sun parosal on it....I still have the babynest I had for my boys and the matching pramset....

I do agree with this carry on with the carseats on the pushchair ..but its the same position they are in ,inside mum .....so makes you think dont it ..

Mine all had prams

When they were sat up in the pram they used to be facing you...well mine did and I never shut up...and they used to yabba back...lol

I had a "proper" pram for all of ours, complete with sun canopy:))

I like pushchairs facing me as well.............you get to chat away as you walk along and see if the baby or toddler is alright instead of peeking to look every now and again.

I have always walked ours to school..................but then it's only 10 minutes away:))

and thats why babies and toddlers are always at the doctors with all sorts of colds and stuff....

lack of fresh air !! and lack of not being able to wrap them up warmly as there is no room for any covers,,

and they are out tiny tiny new babies in them buggy things when baby is just a few days or hours old,,,exposing to all sorts,,,,

I have converted my daughter to "proper prams " ,(we know have 23 between us full size and dolls) .I do not drive so nearly always use one of the big prams but it takes me twice as long to do anything as I am always stopped and chatted to. The ladies want to have a push and the men ask if they can have the wheels to make a trolley/go cart /boggey .
Baby in the pram toddler on the pram seat and shopping in the false bottom and you can still push with one hand.
We have a modern pushchair for the car.

Some of the designs leave a very small gap between the hoods of pushchair and carseat. I saw one in town yesterday. There may even have been a baby inside, but I couldn't see one.

Gwyn

I think we sould start a campiagn bring back the real pram...safer healthier babies and healther mums...lol

Yep and try and walk through the snow pushing a pram you end up with muscles like popeye...lol

One halfwhit holiday I was heavily pregnant with my second son, he was born in July, both my sisters had parttime jobs and I was nomiated as child minder...I used to walk down to my mums and meets my sisters every day so they could get their children...I had sisters baby in big pram mine son sat at on the top and my others sisters childen on either side of the pram...my Mum said bloody hell Hayley you look a right rum bugger....you like you have have had your TV reprosessed...pmsl ...

Evening Ladies

On seeing your thread Hayley, I must say it does not seem right

to see very young babies sitting more or less bolt upright in one,

of those new pushchair contraptions,,, surely this is very bad,

for a developing baby,s spine and/or back ??? much better

laying flat in a pram I think ?

Ray xxx (just an opinion from grandad)

I couldnt agree more Ray

signed a very young mother of very young children..:))))

they do look more comfy in a pram....and it looks nicer and brighter for display purposes...lol

See!!!! us blokes do notice things after all ! lol


Ray xx

I really don't think it does baby any good to be put in a sitting position, without enough spinal support when they are less than three months old. I was always told don't attempt to sit him up until he is holding his head up comfortable, as his spine won't be strong enough.

Now I see these car seat contraptions doing just the opposite. Surely baby should be laid flat...

Maybe I'm just old fashioned. I had a proper pram for mine, and walked everywhere. I never learned to drive, but I would walk the mile to school and back every day, and when they were tiny, I had them both in the pram and walked four miles into the next town for the weekly shopping, visit mum for lunch and back home again every week.

And I wonder why my hip was replaced LOL