Parent-facing buggies - when did you turn your seat round?

[SoupDragon]

My DD will be 9 months next week and I'm the last one of my mummy friends to still have the buggy set up parent-facing rather than world-facing. DD doesn't seem to mind as she can still see plenty, and I enjoy chatting to her. It seems weird to turn her round so I can't see her, though there is a window in the hood of the buggy. We also use a sling a fair bit of the time so I'm really used to being able to see her etc when we're out.

What age did/do you plan to turn the seat round?

 

[amelia26]

I turned my son round about 8/9 months but only because he hated the buggy when parent facing. Would cry every time he went in it. I thought I would try the other way and he was much happier.
Had he been happy parent facing I probably would have kept him that way for longer.

 

[MrsVenn]

DD was 18 months and DS will probably be the same. I enjoyed shopping having a chat mainly with DD, I think it helped her vocab develop too.

 

[pinklizzy]

He's 15 months and still parent facing! I have turned him around a few times when we've had a day out at a wonderland park so he could see everything but I didn't like it.
I'm hoping to keep him parent-facing in this pram until he grows out of it and then he'll have to go to the umbrella stroller that we have.

 

[LoveMyBaby786]

First time she was world facing was a month ago on holiday and only because i bought a cheapy stroller to use abroad so no parent facing option. My regular pram i use at home is still parent facing

 

[Perplexed]

8-9 months, sometimes I felt she wanted to be facing me but once we switched, we switched.

 

[hanni]

It depends how long were out for. We went shopping the other week and we're out for a good 6 hours (obviously had breaks and took him out of his pram) he must have got bored of looking at me all the time and wouldn't stop whinging so I turned him around and he loved it! Sat so content watching the world. I hated every second of it! Don't plan on doing it again unless were out for a while.

 

[Mrsb3]

At 9 months and he loved it!

 

[SoupDragon]

Glad to see a variety of ages, lol, I didn't know if there was some particular age you were meant to do it at for their development or something. I think I'll leave her as she is as she seems happy for the moment, but might try her world-facing if we're going for an interesting walk at any point to see if she likes it

 

[Larkspur]

Never! DS was still parent-facing when he decided he didn't want to use the buggy anymore around 18 months. DD is even more active and already flatly refuses to go in it! I'm giving it another month or two and then it's going on EBay. It's practically pristine.

 

[george83]

Ds1 was still parent facing at gone two years, then I started using a smaller buggy as opposed to my proper push chair so that was forwards facing. Ds2 was 15 months when ds3 was born so he was kicked out of his parent facing pushchair then so the baby could have the chasis wheels with the pram top otherwise I'd of kept him parent facing for much longer.

 

[Yo_Yo]

With both my girls, I had pushchairs I could alternate between parent facing a mind world facing. I found they had days they wanted to see me, others they wanted to look around.
We started world facing from around 10 months, and by 15 months they mainly wanted to world face all the time.

 

[topsy]

We had a parent facing buggy until LO was about a 13-14 months and then bought a stroller as it fitted in the car easier when we went on holiday and still use it now xxx

 

[JessdueJan]

DS1 was about 18 months as my parent facing buggy broke and I just replaced it with a cheapie. DS2 was 21 months when DD arrived and we moved to a double. We had the njoy bubble stroller that faces both ways and he just preferred to be facing me unless we were doing something particular he wanted to see.
He seems to have issues with crowds of people causing distress so I think he felt more comfortable being able to see me. Xx

 

[sethsmummy]

ds3 is 6 months and facing me. he will probably always face me im too paranoid to turn him roundxx

 

[Bevziibubble]

Around 3 years old! She was always happier parent facing but did eventually start asking to be forward facing, so we always do that now when she does need to use the pushchair.

 

[adrie]

I live in Canada and have a bit of a different stroller (pram) than you all in the UK. The one I have is a 3 wheel jogger type, and it was made so that the infant car seat could be affixed in the stroller facing me, and taken out to fit in the car. I took LO out in the stroller without the infant seat when she was able to sit on her own comfortably, some time after 6mo or so.

 

[Buttercup84]

Still parent facing here at 9.5 months. She's in a spica cast for a dislocated hip though so I like the extra 'protection' of having her parent facing. Not sure when i'll have her world facing all the time, possibly when she goes into a double pushchair when her younger sibling is born in March.

 

[Rhio92]

I turned my son's round at 6 months, he loved it! (But I missed him )