I hate our pram... time for a new one

[Sterla]

We bought our pram second-hand from a friend of a friend... got a good price, but to be honest I've never been very happy with it.

We currently have a Valco Baby 3 wheel jogger (I think it's called?). Maybe if I were planning on doing some off-road jogging it might be good, but I'm not.
It's big, bulky, heavy, takes up our entire boot, and is basically just a pain - I avoid using it most of the time.

So, time for a new pram. This is what I'm after:

Lightweight
Easy to fold and smaller than what we currently have (which shouldn't be hard)
Able to have bub front or back facing
Possibly able to have a toddler seat added so it could still be used when # 2 comes along
Not too pricey

Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated .

[widdly]

i dont have suggestions for you, but I know its pretty much impossible to find a pram/stroller with every thing you want it to have. If you find something that ticks all of your boxes deinately let us know!

[Dr. Tal]

We don't have any actual experience with it yet (given that this is our first child I am pregnant with). But DH and I will be getting the strider plus. I don't know how it goes fold up size wise compared to other prams, becasue we've never had any others. But I do know you can change the seat to it's either forward or rear facing, and you can get an extension thingy (thingy being the technical term ) that enables you to put on a second seat. So you can theoretically have both an infant and a toddler seat fitted to it.

It also has a baby capsule attachment you can buy for it. That can be attached to the pram and is able to be taken and fitted as a proper baby capsule in your car.

From memory, the Strider plus (which comes with a baby/toddler seat) is about $600. I can't remember what the extension thingy to enable a second seat cost. But a second toddler seat is about $150 and the baby capsule is about $300.

HTH.

[SammyRo]

We've just replaced our three-wheeler with the strider plus, still only using it as a single till March. I like it, but it is still a big fold, so that might not suit. But it can be reversed as Dr Tal said, and it has the second seat. I think if you want a lightweight, small fold pram, you would probably have to forgo having a toddler seat attachment - it would probably make it too unstable. And most lightweight, small fold prams are also not reversable. As Widdley says, its really hard to find a pram that ticks everything!! That's why I have a big pram (which is the strider now) set up for walking, and then a Maclaren vogue, which is an umbrella stroller, in the car for the shops. I plan on just using that for DD and slinging the new baby when it arrives.