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absent Sat 30-Mar-13 19:01:03

*JessM8 N0, not on their backs. In the night on the right, in the day, the other way.

Ella46 Sat 30-Mar-13 18:56:44

The plastic clips that fasten the harnesses are what get my arthritic fingers.
I have been known to just pull dgd out of one corner when the clips were too stiff grin

The buggy always has muddy wheels when it won't close, and I can't get it in the porch!

JessM Sat 30-Mar-13 18:34:23

And its not getting them into the car seat that's the problem, it is loosening the straps so that you can begin the task without crushing their internal organs (while wrestling the child out of the buggy in a public place) Once had to accost a passing buggy pushing man to help me.

Audreyab Sat 30-Mar-13 18:24:41

Og gracemum so know were you are coming from, I was trying to help my DIL open the blinking buggy one day as she had my GS in her arms and I just could'nt do it!!! I felt such a plank. In the end she gave me My Grandson and she opened the buggy!!! This was when he was a baby of course he is 4 now.

NfkDumpling Sat 30-Mar-13 18:21:13

Baby monitors. I can't master baby monitors.

hummingbird Sat 30-Mar-13 18:21:03

I can't remember how many times I've shoved the upright buggy into the boot, after having a full-on wrestling match with it in the street! It doesn't seem to matter how many times I'm shown, the dratted thing refuses to budge for me. Pitiful looks from DD make the whole debacle worse! I loved my Marmet Imperial - it didn't need to be folded down, just stood royally in the hall. (It wouldn't go in the car, though!)

JessM Sat 30-Mar-13 18:10:22

And remember which way round babies are supposed to sleep... let me see... at the bottom of the cot, on their backs isn't it. And then there is the turning the baby alarm off before you pick them up if mum is sleeping skill, otherwise alarm goes off and mother leaps 6 ft into air like a cartoon character (is that how it goes ? Its been a few years)

glammanana Sat 30-Mar-13 18:05:20

Gave up on buggies would rather walk and put baby into high pram and walk,don't care how far I have to walk just don't give me a buggy.grin

harrigran Sat 30-Mar-13 17:56:01

Buggy is the bugbear, even after 7 years as a gran I can not master the blessed thing.

kittylester Sat 30-Mar-13 17:52:49

I can do 1,2,3 but not 4 or 5 (I've just added that!) the pesky high chair that bites me everytime! angry

gracesmum Sat 30-Mar-13 17:50:33

DD1 said yesterday that to be a member of Gransnet one should be able to 1) change a nappy 2) bath a baby 3)Fasten and unfasten a child/toddler in a car seat and 4) UNDO and DO up a modern buggy. I can tick 1) and 2) and 3) as long as there is not TOO much opposition, but both the other Granny and I were struggling with the buggy yesterday at the MAC in Birmingham. The nails didn't survive the struggle but when DD said "Oh let me........" of course it popped open like a dream. Do you remember the "old" McLaren buggy? You could carry the toddler, 2 bags of shopping and still flip it open and ready to roll in a trice, but these new contraptions need stronger hands than mine!