Updating pram! (Ickkle bubba)

Hi guys looking for some advice, we currently have the V2 Ickkle bubba travel system, my LB is 3 months old in a weeks time and we currently use the lying down bassinet option on our pram/travel system, as the other option seat unit for a only advertised to be use from 6 months+ and not from birth. Has anyone changed over from there bassinet sooner, as my LB now shows more interest in looking around and cries when he is just staring at a blank wall in the bassinet, I know I can give him enrichment to look at but just wanted some advice. We are also going abroad in November and think it would be easier to take the seat unit then the bassinet so he can look around he will be 4 months old when we go on hoilday. If not we will purchase a cheapish travel stroller that’s suitable from birth, is the only difference between this and the seat unit on my travel system that the stroller from birth are fully reclining with the legs straight, where as my pram is a seat uni but still tilts back. Any advice is appreciated thank you. (Picture for attention)

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great thank you and how old is your little one if you don’t mind me asking, I wish ours was suitable from birth I think I’m going to have to purchase one of these strollers instead😞xx

The key thing is that the next seat (the 6months + one) goes flat. If it goes flat you can switch over at any time. This is purely as the guidance says LOs should be lying down flat as much as possible for first 6 months. I have the mamas and papas occarro so we will be switching long before the 6 month mark (as my little one is about an inch off outgrowing the bassinet as 10 weeks!). Hope that helps 😊

On the travel point, there are a lot of travel strollers that go flat too. Depending on price range there are kinderkraft, joie, mamas and papas, babyzen ones. There are loads of others they are just the ones I am looking at for travel 😊

He will be 11 weeks tomorrow, we used it for the first time when he was about 7 weeks xx

We've been using our sitting unit for a few weeks now. He was getting annoyed with the carrycot as he couldn't see the world around him. The sitting unit does go flat and is suitable from newborn though. He is 11 weeks on Monday

hi Lauren, how did you get on in the end with the seat unit, my LO is 3 months old today and I’ve just put the seat unit on the pram to try, do you permanently use yours now? X

Hey we’ve been getting on well, he seems to really enjoy it, he was never unsettled in the carrycot part but is just a very nosey baby, I think he likes that he can see us better too xx

okay great to know, my lo loves it! X

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Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

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What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
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Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
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