I launched MyPushchair in 2006 with my mother. The two of us built it together — attending baby shows, testing pushchairs, writing reviews, and trying to create the honest resource that neither of us could find when we needed it most. At the time I was Managing Director of a coach tour company, so this was a passion project born out of genuine frustration: I’d found choosing a pushchair for my young children bewildering, and I couldn’t understand why no one was giving parents straight answers.
The site grew to become one of the UK’s most visited pushchair resources — ranking number one on Google for pushchair reviews at its peak. Then life got in the way, as it does. The business consumed more time, the children grew up, and the site went quiet.
Now it’s back. And if anything, I have more to say than ever.
Why I relaunched
My daughter is currently struggling with a Graco double pushchair that’s too wide for doorways, awkward on buses, and a nightmare on stairs. She has two children — aged 18 months and 7 months — and she’s going through exactly what I went through nearly twenty years ago: too much information, too little of it honest, and nobody who’s actually tried pushing the thing through a real doorway.
Helping her find the right pushchair reminded me why I built this site in the first place. So here we are.
How we review pushchairs
We don’t just read spec sheets. We consider doorways — specifically the narrow hallways of real British terraced houses. We think about bus aisles, car boots, café gaps, park paths with uneven surfaces, and what it actually feels like to fold a pushchair one-handed while holding a child. These are the things that matter in real life and the things that most reviews ignore.
My wife Janette is a key part of how we assess pushchairs. Mums and stepmums often notice completely different things to dads — and that’s not a cliché, it’s genuinely true in our experience. Janette’s perspective as a step-nana to our grandchildren adds a layer of assessment that I simply can’t provide on my own. Our combined view is more useful than either of us alone.
We’ve also attended baby shows over the years — getting hands-on with products before they reach the shops, talking to manufacturers, and understanding what’s coming to market before most parents have heard of it.
The things other sites don’t talk about
Our experience with children with disabilities has shaped how we think about pushchairs in ways that most review sites simply don’t consider. Which direction is the child facing — and does that matter for this particular child? In a double buggy, are the children comfortable side by side — or could that be a problem if one child is prone to distress, lashing out, or has a medical condition such as a tendency to seizure?
These aren’t edge cases. They’re questions that thousands of parents are asking and finding no answers to. We try to address them.
We have written what we believe is the most honest guide available on choosing a pushchair for a child with additional needs — drawing on our own experience raising children with cerebral palsy, autism, Tourette’s syndrome and learning disabilities. If this is your situation, read our special needs pushchair guide.
We also think about grandparents — specifically grandparents with arthritis, bad backs, or limited strength. The grandparent who does the school run two days a week deserves a pushchair that works for them too, not just for a parent in their thirties. It’s an angle the market almost entirely ignores.
What we will never do
We don’t take payment for reviews. No brand has ever influenced what we write — positively or negatively. If a pushchair isn’t right for your life, we’ll say so, regardless of how much it costs or how well-known the brand is.
We do use affiliate links — when you click through to Amazon and buy something, we earn a small commission at no cost to you. That’s how the site sustains itself. But it has never and will never influence what we recommend. A pushchair that’s wrong for you is wrong for you, commission or not.
If you have a question about a specific pushchair — or a situation that doesn’t fit neatly into any buying guide — get in touch. I read every message and reply to as many as I can.
Mark — MyPushchair, est. 2006