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Single or Double Pram?
At the moment I am looking at prams and have narrowed it down to two. The Baby Jogger City Select and the Bugaboo Chameleon.
I have pros and cons for each of the prams - as far as I am concerned there is no perfect pram out there for me!!
But a big difference is that one pram has the doubles capabilities and the other does not. I carried my DS around in a sling mainly for the first 6 months or so, and then still preferred to use the sling for shorter trips until DS was around 10 or so months. So I figure that I can still possibly get away with the single pram, but it only has the skateboard attachment and DS is really just too young to ride it effectively for quite some time (he will be 21 months when this bub is born). So only 2.5 ish by the time I need to put new bub in the pram......
I want to know if anyone has persevered with this sort of arrangement for their two kids?
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Yes, but my DD was 2 and 10 months when DS was born.
Similarly I carried him in a sling for ages. Heck i still do it. But she was that little bit older IYKWIM? Sometimes at nearly 4 she still occasionally asks to go in the stroller.
BUT saying that I was so glad I didn't get the doulble as it would have been a total waste after only a couple of months.
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Hmmm, that is what I was thinking. If he was closer to 3 when this bub was born I would have no qualms about the single pram, but just knowing that he won't yet be two I don't know if he will be able to handle the skateboard at 2.5 for long lengths of time. I tried him on it at the shop the other day and he is happy to ride it but when he has had enough he just gets off. I'm imagining chasing him around shopping centres!!
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I am hoping that the skateboard will be a total novelty for DS when baby comes along! REALLY hope!
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I'd get a simple twin pram for the times when you will definately need one. Like when you have to go on long trips, or you know he is going to be tired, or going to the zoo etc. You don't need a very fancy, expensive one, just one that you can use easily and when you need to. My daughters are 15 months and 3 yrs 10 months now and I wish I had a double pram for some of my trips.
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My DS was 27 months when Bub came along and we've only ever needed the skateboard or sling.
He loves he skateboard and will ride on it for hours. Having said that he dislikes the pram and hasn't even sit in it since about 20 months
HTH
Spring
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I'm searching for a second hand twin pram ATM for when #2 arrives. I walk a few times a week so this will be a pram that really only will live in the carport, plus we walk to playgroup and to the shop for bread and milk. I already have a Bugaboo and Maclaren stroller that we will use if we go away for the weekend.
But for shopping etc, Coles has a twin trolley that I'll use or I'll put DS in the trolley and new baby in the sling.
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I stopped using the pram for DS at about 2. Definitely by 2 and a half.
He liked to walk and I was happy to let him.
It gets hard when they are tired though, so I guess it depends on the nature and lengths of the trips your be making where therd be no other adult to carry your toddler if he got tired.
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Minimax - the novelty factor is what I am hoping for too.... but as always the novelty eventually wears off and I am not sure that Jett will be old enough to cope.
Miss H - From what you are saying I am better off with the pram with the doubles capabilities (Baby Jogger City Select). I don't want or need two prams when this one can convert from single to double and back again within minutes. You have clarified this issue for me more than you realise! Thankyou!
Spring - Jett had a phase where he refused the pram too, and we either had to carry him or just let him walk. He is now happy to go in a stroller again. But like I mentioned, he will only be 21 months when this bub is born, so not quite 2. And then adding on 6 months for slinging the new bub he still only be 2 1/4 years old. I'm not sure I can convince him to ride a skateboard for any length of time at that age. I just don't think he finds it tat much fun IYKWIM.
Sequoia - I have never used the pram for grocery shopping, just general out and about/shopping centre trips. And lots of walking around our area which is hilly and has various terrain from smooth flat paths to steep dirt tracks! Which is why this is kind of a big decision for me and I need to figure out if I can get away with the single only Bugaboo, or the single/double Baby Jogger.
Pandora - you are right. We are quite happy to let Jett walk most of the time, but sometimes the timeframe is too long, or it coincides with nap time, or we are in a hurry and he just can't keep up - especially while having to thoroughly examine every stick/stone/leaf on the path!!!
I think, after reading all your posts, that it has become clear to me that the variety of uses and times we currently use the pram for is going to call for the doubles pram. At least it allows us to set it up as a single pram for those times when Jett is going to walk it himself, or I am going to sling the baby and he can ride in the pram. Then on the longer outings we can have it set up for two and there is somewhere for them both to go.
Thankyou so much to everyone who posted, you have all helped clarify this dilemma for me!!
