Talipes Baby Best Buggy?

The best buggy for a Talipes Baby? 

What Buggy would you chose?

When I found out I was having a baby with Bilateral Talipes... I was obviously spinning questions after questions around in my head.
My main question was what Buggy will my baby be able to go in nicely!?
Here we have my 3 out of 4 buggies -

• A Quinny Moodd
• A Bugaboo Cameleon 
• A Bugaboo Bee Plus

I tried Hugo out in all of them with his Boots & bar on... Bare in mind Hugo is 16 months old & out of the Full Time BnB; he very rarely goes in his Pushchair with his bnb on now. 

But when we are on holiday he will be in his bnb much more as we will be out in the evenings, 

So its good to know what buggy suits his bnb best.

We tried him in the Quinny Moodd first RRP is £600 from Mothercare

The footrest was fab - the bar rests on it nicely, Hugo didn't look uncomfortable in it either.

The front bar unclips *Its on elastic to stop it falling on the floor. its good for putting baby in & out. You can remove it fully & take the elastic off... you may need to do this with your baby if wearing boots & bar as you may get stuck!

Boots & Bar seem to manage to get stuck on everything... 

Quinny Moodd 

We next tried Hugo in the Bugaboo Remember this is not the Bugaboo Cameleon V3  Basic Bugaboo RRP £799 This is the Bugaboo by Bas RRP £2000+

The bar Removes really quickly with two little buttons from either side..

Clipping the bar back in...

Hugo in his Bugaboo By Bas Koster

The footrest on the Bugaboo looks good. its a good width & no gaps. the BnB rests nicely...

Last but definitely not least we tried the Bugaboo Bee Plus This is a All Black Missoni Special limited edition RRP for a basic Bee Plus is £479... RRP for the all black is £529

He doesn't have a foot rest on this one. no support for his BnB at all. But he looks happy enough in it. 

what i have noticed with him facing forwards is that he hits his legs accidentally on the front bits. He has hurt himself 3 or so times on it now.

 I think Hugo would chose the Bugaboo Cameleon & Quinny Moodd are the Best Buggy for his BnB ...

Hugo choses the bugaboo Cameleon...

Oh & he has just informed me that the Quinny Moodd was JUST as comfortable so they both win best Talipes Buggies.

Aswell as seeing what Buggy is Best for a Talipes baby... I have been keeping a secret...
Do you remember my blog post - The Bugaboo Brigade? I was blabbering on about The ANDY WARHOL Hood...
eeek!
We have a new addition in our family.
Yep, I think you just may of guessed. Its the Andy Warhol Special Edition Cars HOOD! I got the last one from John Lewis but the flowers is still in Stock.

Andy Warhol Bugaboo Bee Plus hood

You know I have A buggy obsession I can't help it... If you can't understand perhaps read...

Is that a Bugaboo?

& 

My Designer Babies & I

This is the Bugaboo's with their Footmuff's on too. Hugo Can fit in the new bugaboo-high-performance-footmuff quite well with his BnB on & its a tight fir but he can fit in the bugaboo-universal-footmuff

Please Note *Declaration I was NOT Given The Andy Warhol Hood By Bugaboo I bought it with my Hard Earned Saved Up Money. The High Performance FootMuff I WON from Bugaboo in 2012.
I am a Quinny Caster so I have been given the Moodd from Quinny to Test for 2013. All Views & Opinions are my own. 

Mind over Matter?? Hugo's Feet 16 Months on...

Mind over matter? I just can't seem to do this right now... Hugo is 16 & half months old. 

I did last week do a post about Hugo standing unaided but since then he hasn't even tried it. 

Its really like we take one step forwards & then two steps back. 

Well today Hugo took a very unsteady step, Brilliant I hear you cry. 

But its sent me into panic.

So much so I almost rang his consultant... His leg turned almost all the way round. In a blink of an eye. 

He has no balance at all. 

I feel so empty... I know he is only 16 months old. I know I know the average walking age is 9months - 18 months... well we are rapidly getting further & further into the later stages. 

I'm thinking so out the box...

 'what if he never walks?'

'What if he struggles to get balance?'

'What if he can walk but he looks as if he has a fake leg?'

Now there is Nothing wrong with prosthetic leg but Hugo hasn't got one so i wouldn't want him to look as though he has one. 

As he walks now with a walker... he swings his leg out.

I wish I knew what the future will hold!!

I would HATE him to be bullied for how he walks...

We are off to Miami, America next month & I stupidly had in my head that Hugo would be walking, running around...

Well he will be almost 18 months so why wouldn't he of been, in normal circumstances...

& the most stupid of questions...

SO WHY MY BABY!?

WHY MY BOY?

Oh gosh now I have tears rolling down my face... It does get easier being a mummy of a Talipes baby. Really it does... I'm the Happy Feet Talipes Admin I started the group.

I'm just having a bad day... 

On a positive note... Hugo is a complete dare devil & learnt how to climb on to the chairs to then climb on to the table today.! I'm sure i'm raising a monkey ! 

Hugo & I went on a long walk earlier today. * This doesn't help my *Over thinking* brain time. 

It was a beautiful outside green trees blue sky & Quiet!

Hugo has babbling away the whole walk. No chance of him napping...

I think it makes it worse that we see his Physio every 3 months which feels like a lifetime it really does.
I want to know answers... :(

Apologies about my absence in advance

Apologies in advance.
New house means installing EVERYTHING again... I don't mean Iphone Apps.
I am referring to the big I - Internet! Wow who would of thought the Internet would have such a hold over my life. A feeling I really wish I didn't have but i'm a blogger.
We had a whole week without real TELE * Do you know I can survive without Tele, I'm not a big TV fan, if its not raining the babies are outside enjoying getting muddy! But I am feeling a little lost not being able to connect to the outside world. I don't even have '3g' or even 'E' I live in the sticks. I had to remove my 'iMessage' from my iPhone as I wasn't receiving messages from friends.
Well Mic sorted the Sky out so we have a working tele. its ok to have a TV back but we still don't have the internet...
Its such a bummer!! Perhaps it will do me some good not being on the internet as much as I was...
The world revolves around internet though, I refuse to go to internet cafes again that was my LIFELINE when I lived in spain. I'd have an alcoholic drink & an hours Internet time.
we should have he internet working here by now but it didn't go to plan; we still have no internet.

As you can imagine I've been non stop sorting the new house & getting on with the real life day to day things.
Well it hit me last night with my dreaded Migraine. As a M.E sufferer I honestly blame my M.E for my Migraines; Only Migraine sufferers will understand just how awful they are. They aren't 'bad headaches' I literally can't move; all i can do it lay down in my room with the blinds closed & try to sleep it off...
I woke up with it again today. fortunately the little people are being amazing for me. I've spent half the day on the sofa watching Chicken little films... I took some strong painkillers & I'm feeling ok at the moment, I'll need an early night tonight though. Just got to see how the week plans out, i definitely don't want to do too much though.
We have settled in really well in our new home though. The babies are sleeping well although they are both poorly at the moment ... snotty noses & bad coughs.
They are annoyingly waking up at ridiculous 5 am times at the moment. they have black out blinds so I can't blame the sun.
This time for waking is NOT helping my lack of energy. 9PM bedtime for me isn't helping either. I must go earlier. *Memo to self.
We had a small open house yesterday with a few friends they all loved my new 'Flat Pack Home' I really love it too.
Life is good. Even with a migraine. The sun isn't shining yet the babies are happily playing on the decking & the decking is a life saver for a baby that is not yet walking. No Muddy knees!

I'll try to keep you all updated with life as much as possible. With lacking internet its tough...
Back at the Hospital with Hugo this Friday.

In the Moodd to get the Family together Task 4.

    

I should start by saying we have a Huge family... & trying to get everyone together at the same time proves I would say impossible.

But I think you would agree we gave it a good go! & we had such a giggle with it too! I integrated the family photo with a family 'lets have a snoop around my newly built house' cups of tea & cupcakes also persuaded them to come too.

I LOVE the laughter in this photo... we had a good day!

Old Drawers are bought with their History

Mic & I went furniture snooping last weekend. I had looked in a little boutique in one of our local villages earlier in the week & found a cute chest of drawers ... all shabby chic painted with Annie Sloan paint I had liked it but not in love with it. I told the lovely shop keeper that i'd bring my Husband in later in the week.

Well Mic & I did go back & we had money burning in our pockets ready to buy. BUT I couldn't bring ourselves to spend over £100 on a chest of drawers I just didn't love.

We decided to go & check out this really lovely quant little Antique shop that i had driven past before but never actually walked in & taken a look around. 

Funnily enough it is right opposite Mics work & he had never even noticed it! Shocking I thought as I saw it the first time I drove past... Typical man then. 

Strangely when we arrived there, I wasn't that impressed. I'm thinking because i couldn't fit the buggy in the store; it put me off. 

nothing worse than walking around antiques & breaking something thats worth hundreds of pounds.

As Hugo & I waiting outside Luckily the sun was shining. 

Mic & Emilyn had found treasure.

Treasure in the type of Beautiful Chest of drawers, 

This was love at first sight! 

3 large drawers with two small drawers at the top. 

It was victorian with original drawer knobs. 

It was PERFECT!

The Price was £225 which was slightly over budget but in my eyes totally worth every penny.

Then as i was starring lovingly at the beautiful chest of drawers I heard Mic calling my name ...

More treasure?

Yes it sure was. This time the most perfect Project for me.

A beautiful Dressing table. 

*Which strangely I have fallen in love with how it is now. As in I feel it could ruin it by painting it & shabby 'ing it up? 

The thing about this was the History that came with it. 

All 1946 of it.

Hundreds of pages of old Music books.

History fascinates me; not so much sitting in a classroom listening to the teacher bang on about henry the 8th but seeing History with my own eyes. 

Flicking through the music books looking at scribbled notes on pages.

Seeing how much the cost back then.

This Dresser has so much History with it. 

A lady with the name Sheila Cryps owned it.

She was a Music teacher & also a Sunday School Teaching assistant.

The drawer full of history.

I'm going to keep everything from the drawer; feels wrong to throw it out. It's the drawers History not mine.

I love that we have brought them in to our very new home. 

Giving our Flat pack house some history... 

Really honestly makes me smile.

I love all the tea cup staines on the wooden top. 

Thinking *what has this dressing table seen? 

Having girls doing their make up at it... like I now am. 

These beautiful children's music books * I'm going to frame them & put them in the children's room.

This Memo book with handwriting in... dating back to 1946

Inside the Memo Book

My Bedroom.

I love my new buys. I love that i've got good old solid furniture in my room. I love that Mic haggled the guy down so we paid just over £200 for both beautiful pieces of furniture.
Keep an eye out on my blog * I may paint the dresser...

My Happy Feet Boy & His Little Grey Monster

    

Hugo is just over 16 months & today we have had major developmental progress. He has been standing unaided; albeit for just a few seconds... but its amazing for me to see... you can take a look here - Hugo standing He has taken 4 steps in the past i'm so glad i blogged about it as it feels like a dream, he's never done it again. It seriously feels like i just made it up.
But my Mum & Gran saw him walk so I know he done it!
Hugos feet have been over corrected for about 5*ish months now as hes only 16 months old... thats quite a long time.
He is still wearing his BnB *(Boots & Bar) to bed 6pm - 6am & Can i have a quick rave about this Bar Bumper I recently had made - a little grey Monster eeek isn't it cute! The Lovely lady is called 'Bar Bumpers' she's on Facebook & Twitter.

I most definitely recommend her work **If you have a baby with Talipes & your going into the BnB stage You must order one! It totally stops the bruising on legs too.

Look at that packaging.

I won this adorable little bar bumper key ring from the 'winning Wednesday' she does.

Proudly on my key chain.

Hugo is in the Moodd to Sleep...Task 3 Completed!

I found out about this weeks Task whilst browsing the Quinny Caster page - HERE Then Quinny emailed me & Then the other Quinny Casters & I discussed ideas to get our non sleeping babies to sleep!. We even joked we could just get a photo of our babies blinking & pretend they were asleep.! *Luckily I didn't need to get that desperate* 

Although I was excited as I am every week for new tasks; I also knew this weeks quite possibly may be the toughest challenge yet.

Hugo does nap but 20 mins max a day. 

Trying to get him to nap in his Quinny Moodd will be even harder... 

We decided to take a trip to Sheffield Park Gardens a National Trust Park with beautiful gardens.

My idea was to let Hugo crawl around to make him tired. Hmmm

Mummy Multi Tasking *Like usual.

We walked from the National Trust Park over a mile to The Bluebell Railway...

Daddy Mic pushing Hugo - He loves the Moodd.

He was REALLY fighting the sleep...

It got to about 3pm & Hugo was still exhausted but all the loud noises kept him going... until the tiredness took over & the comfort of the Quinny took over ...

He has been awake since 10am & been busy crawling around... sleepy time now Mr.

Getting Sleepy 

It then didn't take Hugo long.. & he was sound asleep... He slept through the Music Band ...

Hugo fell asleep whilst the band played...

He slept through the hustle & bustle of people ...

He must enjoy the sound of music...

He even slept through the Steam train horn & then the steam train chugging away...

Once asleep Hugo slept through the Train Horn & the train chugging away...

 

  

Very asleep!

YOUTUBE Video's here - Steam Train Hugo sleeping through & HERE - My two crazies