Babies and Prams?

[LaurLaur]

What do you all think about the new reports that having your baby facing away from you in a pushchair, may suffer from higher stress levels, when compared to babies facing you?

Who uses a forward facing pushchair? and who uses one which faces you?

I will be interested in peoples reactions as we are currently TTC, and yeah, it is just interesting!

 

[Magic Monkey]

I have both and my child talks more and sleeps better when facing away from me! So she doesn't agree with this research at all.

I think that parent facing obviously offers more interaction, but TBH how much time each day does a child actually spend in the pushchair - probably less than 10% of a day, so provided you are interacting with them at other times does it really matter if she isn't looking at my ugly mug when in the pushchair!

 

[Rachel]

Nathan had a forward facing pushchair and is fine. Kieran has got one that can forward face or face me. I prefer that I can look at Kieran and he can look at me while in the pushchair but I don't think any harm is done by just putting them in a forward facing pushchair

As Magic Monkey said, they don't spend that much time in the pushchair anyway and aslong as you're interacting with them the rest of the time they will be fine

 

[Bee]

There's a post on this in babies and toddlers, general chat