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‘Buggy’, ‘stroller’, ‘pushchair’, ‘pram’, ‘three-in-one’, ‘travel system’, ‘jogger’: there are countless devices for transporting your baby from A to B. In essence, you need to buy some form of transport for your newborn that lies flat for the first three months, because tiny babies don’t have the head control to cope with sitting more upright. After about three months you want to be able to raise the back of the buggy seat up progressively so that, by about six months, your baby can sit up in it. You can buy expensive lie-flat prams for new babies, but they’ll be redundant after a few months. As a basic rule, if you want a buggy to last you from birth to four years, it needs to be lightweight, easily foldable and have a back that can lie flat but with several more upright positions too.

You can buy ‘travel systems’ or ‘three-in-ones’, which give you an infant car seat, pram and pushchair in one package. If you get one of these, make it lightweight or you’ll almost certainly ditch it when your baby reaches about six months, as it’ll become too clumsy and hefty. After about six months a lightweight ‘umbrella-type’ stroller that folds easily is really all you need (you can buy these suitable from birth–Maclaren does a popular one that lies flat for newborns).

As for the rest, in general, buggy accessories add money but not much value. The only really useful ‘extras’ are: somewhere to put your shopping (a sling-type pocket under the buggy is fine); a good rain cover; some form of sun canopy (you can buy clip-on sun umbrellas) and, in the winter, a ‘cosy toes’ sleeping bag that fits on the buggy can be handy (blankets slip off easily when you’re mobile).