K..I...S..S...I...N....G

Well not quite kissing but sharing a plate of wet meat..no less !!!

Miracles do happen

My parents came down to visit today and whilst Deckchair and dad worked on the cabling in the back room, mum and I went baby shopping. Mum brought us two beautiful baby grows, one white with Roo and one in lemon and orange stripes with Roo...very cute and awaiting Bert in August.

First stop was the near side of meadowhall, where I showed mum the pram that Deckchair liked at Mothercare but she agreed with me that the material would get to dirty too quickly.

Then I showed mum the Graco Mirage pram I liked at Babies R Us at the retail park around the corner but the shop model they built for us a couple of weeks ago is broken and will no longer fold !!! Which is making me concerned about buying a Graco pram.

We looked at a couple other Graco models in the store but they had strange one hand twist
folding mechanisms which I didn't like.

So we went back to meadowhall the far end this time, to go to the big and expensive Mama and Papas shop. They had two very nice buggies at very nice prices !!! The lighter of the two prams was very complex to fold, needing two hands and a foot which I though was a bit much. But the pram was very light and very easy to open.

The other pram I really love it is a nice dark charcoal colour and folded up easily and quickly and even stands up when folded !!! Easy to unfold and to adjust the seat angle etc.
The car seat clicks in with extra links which are pulled up from the base which at first I thought what a pain but then I realised that the car seat is much more secure than the Graco seats.

The sales lady showed us how the seat would fit with the base in our car. Now I liked the base but was surprised that the seat beat is still threaded though the back on the seat. Also I liked the handle folds forward to brace against the main car seat, to protect the child from side impacts. They only thing I didn't like was the car seat handle was hard to move up and down whilst pressing the small silver buttons, the sales lady said it was only stiff as it was a new seat which I am unsure about.

I think I need more details on how the Graco seat bases work, I am wondering if they would be secure enough.

This evening I looked up Graco on the Mumsnet website and members feedback had four mums who had Graco prams which 'fell to pieces' and one mum who said her Graco is fine five years on but her first Graco also broke !!!

When I looked up Mama's & Papa's on Mumsnet and everyone liked them but felt they were pricey...which they are.

So what do we do now !!! I am very tempted by the Mama & Papa's one, just because I like it