Double prams

Double prams are brilliant, you can take both babies out by yourself, they can chill together, all is well. Except they aren’t brilliant when:

1. You can’t reverse into a bay as there is no way on God’s earth you will fit the pram in between your car and the one you’ve parked next to. So if you’re like me and has a ‘mam car’ that you look way too small to drive then pulling into a tight spot in a car with the biggest turning circle ever, it becomes tricky. You end up looking like a tit who shouldn’t have passed their test.

2. You want to get anywhere fast. I’ll just nip to the shops for some milk. Oh wait, I can’t, it’s going to take me 15 minutes to get the pram out the car, set up and the kids in the pram.

3. Following on from that, as we have established I can’t pull into bays, I reverse in the drive but there is never enough room either side to push the pram fully set up with the kids. Instead I have to take the pram out piece by piece and carry it to the front of the drive. Then quickly get the kids into the pram without leaving any of them alone for too long whilst I try to get all the other things I need ie my shoes.

4. You try to be active and go on a walk that you don’t envision having barriers that can barely fit a single pram through never mind a double. I find myself taking the pram apart just to get through the barriers, why I didn’t just turn around and go back to the car is beyond me.

5. The older child decides they want to pester the baby the whole time they are in the pram and by pester I mean put their finger in his mouth; stroke his head (it’s cute I must admit); play with the buttons on his jacket; and sometimes taking it too far and hitting on the head. This is when you wish there was a barrier between them.

6. You go for a stroll and realise the slight incline you used to walk up with ease now feels like you’re climbing a mountain.

7. Your whole boot is taken up by a pram so the promises to your oldest to be able to sit in the seats in the boot have gone and he has to settle with squeezing between the two massive car seats.

8. You feel adventurous and perhaps a little bit foolish and decide to go clothes shopping. This ends in every time you go through the aisles you knock half the clothes on the floor as even if the space is big enough for you to get through, the children are close enough to pull the clothes.

9. You can’t fit through majority of doors so can’t just pop to the shop, round to your friends etc.

10. You go into a cafe and there is no place to put the pram where it won’t inconvenience at least 80% of people who are in there.

Moral of the story: don’t have children with small age gap so you don’t require the double pram and if you have twins – good luck!