We've had to buy another pram second time around - but were thrilled to be able to pick up one of those fancy expensive ones with the front wheel only for 60.00 - HOWEVER the folding down of this thing is so complex it took DH and FIL about 5 mins to figure out how to fold it down LOL.

I am not sure when I will be able to learn to do it myself because I can't bend down and I also will not be able to do too much after the caesarian. Oh dear. I love it though, they normally retail for 450-500!

What kind of pram does everyone else have? or what are you planning on getting?

I have this thing about buying baby stuff second hand... I have seen tons of 3 wheel double strollers on Trade Me like heaps cheaper than brand new but I just can't seem to buy one off there... I am worried that there will be something wrong with it or it will be really dirty. KWIM
I just feel a lot better buying brand new which is hard for us...
However we did get a few things second hand for Abby... changing table, cot, baby capsule, highchair and bassinet. We bought the stroller brand new and the carseat.

I know we can't afford to be too fussy... I'm just a germ freak :oops:

Anyway, that's really good you were able to get one for only $60!!! :D

We are getting a Bertini 3 wheel double stroller. It has the toddler seat that fits on the front. It comes with a free rain/sun cover, infant sleeping bag and something else.... I can't remember what. It's $399.99 and the toddler seat is free and they are worth $99.99 so it's a really good deal. And we will get 150 Fly Buys points with it! Woohoo! :lol:
I am selling the single stroller we bought for Abby. I'm hoping to get $100 but probably will only get $75. I won't sell it for less than that because I have hardly used it and it's in excellent condition. I haven't ever seen one on Trade Me that is as good as this one. It has no fading, is not dirty and has nothing broken or teared on it.
I'll be doing free delivery anywhere in Auckland so that will save them money because it would probably cost another $25-35 for delivery... probably more actually. Or they can pick up if they want.

Hmmm....what is a pram? :? :oops:

Godzgirl - the thing you push your baby in LOL. What do you call it in the states?

Renee - I am so the same with second hand gear, I will only take it or buy it off someone I know!!!! (and I know this person I got the pram from) I am paranoid about going to view something out of the trade paper.

Also I was told by my childhealth nurse that it is NEVER a good idea to buy a second hand capsule or carseat unless you know the person who is selling it as it could have been present in the car during a prang or suffered rough handling and so therefore the safety of the baby can compromised due to it being rattled around or mishandled. So that is one thing we'd NEVER get second hand definately unless we knew the previous owner and the history of the device.

I have been to second hand baby gear stores where the smell of cigarette smoke from second hand gear is so overpowering it made me feel sick!

Last time we hired a capsule from the hospital and borrowed one from a friend who we knew well. This time around we are using my sisters newborn to 2 y/o car seat...

What is a capsule?

Thanks. You all down under sure can have some funny names for stuff.

Prang, means accident, right?

I am learning Austrailian and New Zealand this way!!! Yeah!!!! Hopefully I'll be able to use it down there someday......(Hubby and I would love to go down there someday to live for awhie. Who knows.)

Yeah prang is a minor car accident (another word for it is a BINGLE)

A baby capsule... is the kind of baby car seat you put the baby in when it's newborn and you can remove the part the baby lays in from the car and carry the baby in that.

WHat do you call a pram then? You know Prams were invented in China first seen being driven down the Yangsee River (IT'S TRUE!!). The term is English and is a derivative from the word Prambulator. I have no idea what the chinese called it - hee hee.

Godzgirl - the thing you push your baby in LOL. What do you call it in the states?

Renee - I am so the same with second hand gear, I will only take it or buy it off someone I know!!!! (and I know this person I got the pram from) I am paranoid about going to view something out of the trade paper.

Also I was told by my childhealth nurse that it is NEVER a good idea to buy a second hand capsule or carseat unless you know the person who is selling it as it could have been present in the car during a prang or suffered rough handling and so therefore the safety of the baby can compromised due to it being rattled around or mishandled. So that is one thing we'd NEVER get second hand definately unless we knew the previous owner and the history of the device.

I have been to second hand baby gear stores where the smell of cigarette smoke from second hand gear is so overpowering it made me feel sick!

Last time we hired a capsule from the hospital and borrowed one from a friend who we knew well. This time around we are using my sisters newborn to 2 y/o car seat...

Yes I have to check the expiry date on our baby capsule... I have to do that soon... incase we have to buy a new one...
We got it from someone we don't know and I kind of wonder if it was such a great idea. There is nothing wrong with it as far as we know. They assured us that it had NEVER been in an accident and it was in very good condition. We paid $50 for it.
I didn't know that it was not recommended then... no one told me. And so many people sell their carseats and capsules on the internet.
I could have hired one from Plunket but I thought it would be better paying $50 once and not having to hire one twice...

I don't know what we are doing about a booster seat... I don't like the ones without the 5 point harness that are for 14kg and up and all they use is the lapsash belt across the carseat. It just doesn't seem very safe to me and I've heard of a 4 year old dying in a car accident from being in one of those and the whole seat just flew out of the car ... but I don't know that we can afford to get the ones that go up to something like 36kg and have a 5 point harness... if I knew about those in the first place I would have got one of those instead of the newborn to 18kg one we got. *sighs*

What is a capsule?

Thanks. You all down under sure can have some funny names for stuff.

Prang, means accident, right?

I am learning Austrailian and New Zealand this way!!! Yeah!!!! Hopefully I'll be able to use it down there someday......(Hubby and I would love to go down there someday to live for awhie. Who knows.)

:lol:

Yeah prang is a minor car accident (another word for it is a BINGLE)

:shock: I've never heard that one before!

A baby capsule... is the kind of baby car seat you put the baby in when it's newborn and you can remove the part the baby lays in from the car and carry the baby in that.

WHat do you call a pram then? You know Prams were invented in China first seen being driven down the Yangsee River (IT'S TRUE!!). The term is English and is a derivative from the word Prambulator. I have no idea what the chinese called it - hee hee.

Oh so that's what a Prambulator is! :oops: :lol: :lol: :lol: I bought Abby some Peter Rabbit books on Saturday and one is called "The Two Bad Mice" or something like that... and it is talking about a Prambulator and I was like "what the heck is a Prambulator??!!" :lol: Now I know! I knew what a Pram is though :wink:
I use many words for it... stroller, pushchair, pram, buggy...

Anyone know what the word "lit" means... not the one that means lighting something... In the Dr Seuss book "The Cat In The Hat" there is a part where it says "as he lit". It's talking about the fish falling back into his pot (we call it a fishbowl). What the heck does "lit" mean? I thought maybe they just made an error in the book when typing it and it is supposed to be "hit"? Anyone?? :oops:

Renee', Lit in that case probably means to take off suddenly and quickly. He lit off for home (meaning he went home as fast as he could).

We call a capsule a car seat :D . Also called a carrier.

We call Prams (I knew what this was before, I read too much I think :roll: ) a stroller. However, baby carriages were also called Prams or Perambualtors, but those are not popular anymore. The popular strollers are the ones that the infant car seats (capsules) snap into to push the baby in and then when the baby outgrows the infant seat at twenty pounds (some seats now go to thirty), there is a regular seat under where the carrier snaps in at for it.

I got our stroller for ten dollars at a garage sale. It is a little older, but I don't care. You can't put the car seat in it, but the seat reclines flat. Not like I plan on taking the baby shopping with it. Those things can be hard to steer! It will do nicely for taking her over to the jogging/walking park a block away.

My MIL just bought us a car seat yesterday. I wish I could have picked it out, but then, beggars can't be choosers, I guess.

Crystal

ummm not exactly sure but I have heard the expression "lit on out of here" so it could mean - moved rapidly or left rapidly ???

I had never heard the capsules 2nd hand wasn't recommended either until the health nurse told me so.

Yeah I know about carseats dilemma, we have two of those ahh- it's a chair which the twins sit on and then they use their lap belt. It makes the lap belt tight and to size - we also had an awful accident last week in Perth where a woman was hit from behind by a P Plater and her baby came out of the capsule (one of the velcro belt ones) and flew out of the car and onto the verge. Some passers by revived her (the baby) but she isn hospital fighting life threatening head injuries (she was only 4 months old). That;s another reason I am using the newborn to 2 yr carseat, better seatbelt system involved.

Renee', Lit in that case probably means to take off suddenly and quickly. He lit off for home (meaning he went home as fast as he could).

Thanks! :D

We call a capsule a car seat :D . Also called a carrier.

We call Prams (I knew what this was before, I read too much I think :roll: ) a stroller. However, baby carriages were also called Prams or Perambualtors, but those are not popular anymore. The popular strollers are the ones that the infant car seats (capsules) snap into to push the baby in and then when the baby outgrows the infant seat at twenty pounds (some seats now go to thirty), there is a regular seat under where the carrier snaps in at for it.

I got our stroller for ten dollars at a garage sale. It is a little older, but I don't care. You can't put the car seat in it, but the seat reclines flat. Not like I plan on taking the baby shopping with it. Those things can be hard to steer! It will do nicely for taking her over to the jogging/walking park a block away.

My MIL just bought us a car seat yesterday. I wish I could have picked it out, but then, beggars can't be choosers, I guess.

Crystal

I love the old prams where the baby lies flat. It's like a bassinet but has wheels KWIM So you can basically make it up like a bassinet ... that is so nice! But I love the modern strollers too that have three wheels and you can run/jog with them.
I like the single strollers (for one kid) that have the reversible handles so you can have baby on your side so you can see them. I wanted one like that but they were more expensive...
I don't like the double strollers where you have one child next to the other. I like the ones with one in the back and one in the front. Our one has (the one we put on Layby) baby in the back and the toddler seat attaches in front and is a little higher up. I bet Abby will love being up high! :D

Oh yeah you try getting to the bathroom when out and about on your own with one of those side by side prams. Does not happen. There was quite a few times when I had to leave my shopping as I needed to go to the tut and could not exactly leave the kids out in the middle of the shop and it wouldn't even fit into a disabled toilet - however it was all we could afford at the time.

My pram is the jogger type... yay.

LOL! :lol: Yeah pram would be considered a jogging stroller here. And a baby capusle is called an infant car seat. :lol:

I bought a double stroller off of Craigslist for $30! It's the inline one that you can put an infant carseat in. Yay! We had to drive a little ways to get it, but with the exception of a little dust, it's in perfect condition. The cheapest one we could find new was like $180 (of course, I was looking at Sears...not exactly the cheapest place on earth). But yeah, only $30! I love Craigslist! :D

Oh yeah you try getting to the bathroom when out and about on your own with one of those side by side prams. Does not happen. There was quite a few times when I had to leave my shopping as I needed to go to the tut and could not exactly leave the kids out in the middle of the shop and it wouldn't even fit into a disabled toilet - however it was all we could afford at the time.

My pram is the jogger type... yay.

That is true...
I used to work at New World and mothers could never get those double strollers through the checkouts.
I love the jogger ones!

I bought a double stroller off of Craigslist for $30! It's the inline one that you can put an infant carseat in. Yay! We had to drive a little ways to get it, but with the exception of a little dust, it's in perfect condition. The cheapest one we could find new was like $180 (of course, I was looking at Sears...not exactly the cheapest place on earth). But yeah, only $30! I love Craigslist! :D

The cheapest double stroller (new) I've found is over $250. And it's a side by side type one.

I like the idea of being able to put the infant car seat in the stroller... saves having to wake baby.
I like how I can put the infant car seat into the trolley at the supermarket! New World has trolleys that have a metal part on top that is shaped and the seat just sits on it and then you strap it in. They are the only supermarket that has those trolleys here...
Countdown and Woolworths don't.

We got a very plain pram on special that works from new born upwards. It is not as good as the big wheeled mountain buggies if you want to go running or cross country (the wheels start to spin if you go to fast), but it has worked really well for us around town. When I was shopping around I looked for one that folded down well and was fairly light (so that I could lift it into the car boot easily). I have also thought that I would never want to try to manouver one of those side-by-side double prams. We haven't got a double pram - I think Joshua will be doing a lot more walking once the baby arrives. In fact, Joshua would like to be walking a lot more now - my pregnant body just doesn't have the energy to be dealing with constantly chasing and lifting involved when I am trying to get shopping done (when he decides it is a good time to stop for a rest or tantrum in the middle of the mall/street).

I have also been thinking about the carseat, it has only recently occurred to me that Joshua will be ready to be moved to a booster seat soon. So this is yet another expense I had failed to anticipate :( . I haven't started to look yet - and don't even know what the options are at this stage.