Infant car seats + airplane friendly 3-in-1

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There's buggy/cots, which are more for new borns, beds on wheels basically. The 3-in-1 system are basically these, but with a car seat which can also fix to the frame. Then there's more light weight strollers / prams, suitable for carrying by hand, and taking on hoiday. While the buggy/cot type do fold down, they aren't really practical for taking places as they're much more cumbersome. The strollers are good when you need something light weight. We had a Mountain Buggy and is was worth it's weight in gold, very light and compacted down into a square shape, as opposed to collapsing sideways into a long / thin shape. Made it very compact and easy to carry with the carry handle. Strollers are as cheap as £25-30 new, but the Mountain Buggy Nano is about £150. If you can afford it, it's worth the extra cost as you'll use it for a good 2 or 3 years.

Thanks for the tip on this. Someone locally is selling one of these 2nd hand so we've just put in an offer. It does look like a great travel option. Inflation has obviously kicked in as they're about £200+ new, which is still rather competitive vs a lot of buggies that are £700-1000.

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we ended up buying a new nano in the end. Great travel buggy. Took it to the hospital when he was born to use with the car seat but ended up just carrying him out in the seat in the end. Our day-day buggy is a 2nd hand bugaboo which has connectors for our car seat (we ditched the idea of using it on an airplane) but the nano is going to be our travel option/where we need somthing that will go in a cloakroom for a long period etc. The only improvement would be to make it one-handed opening and to have a place to securely stow the wheels when they're detached.