General Chat

I wish I could.........we are seriously packed to the gunnels here..........lol

make room...lol

Lol Hayley.........I saw the perfect pram in a charity shop two days ago.....my fingers itched and twitched to buy it.........I had visions of lace trimmings and embroidery anglaise ( ? I think I have the right word ? ).....but I don't have any room left in the house now : (

Amanda...when I am a granny...when I an old enough I am going to have my own pram...with display covers and fancy lacy things...:-)))) lol

Muffy thats called wheeling em out with pride....whitson BCtsk....

TW I am ignoring you....you know why **glares**

Evening Mo Gwen Daffy Jean and anyone else..~~~~~~~~

Mine used to have a carry cot/pram attachment which would also fit on the pram base.

If I was going to be out shopping for any length of time then I DID used to transfer her to that......but for short journeys the car seat on wheels was dead useful !!!!

I used to walk all the time after I had the eldest...using the pram attachment as opposed to the carseat one.....hours and hours of wandering aimlessly around because the motion of the pram used to send her off to sleep when lying in a cot just didn't lol.

Trouble was by the time youngest came along.......eldest was always too worn out from play school/nursery to come walking with me.....so we missed out on that a bit xx

**have to say youngest hasn't suffered through being deprived of her pram walks lol xx

*frets...I just want to know what a halfwit holiday is as I don't want to miss out on nowt....

I don't look at babies these days, but I am sure everything has been scientifically tested etc......all I know is that my baby faced me in the pram so I could admire and chat to him:-)

BCXX

Hayley.......there is one of those very ugly contraptions of which you are speaking in my living room at the moment..........I don't like it either but they wouldn't listen to me : (

I think the general idea is that baby is more on " parade " because it's higher up if it's in the car seat bit. The silliest thing as far as I'm concerned is that you have to get the baby out ( thus disturbing it ) as soon as you reach your destination because ( as has been said ) it isn't good for their spines to be in it for very long...........I think they are stupid .

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

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


Ray xx

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

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)

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 ...

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

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 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.

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 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:))

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 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

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....