Cycling with a baby is a personal thing. The Dutch do it from the day their baby is born and in other countries it’s taboo. For me it was a choice between us being together as a family on our bikes, or one of us being on a bike, and the other on the footpath pushing the buggy.
To anyone who cycles, pushing a buggy is a whole new, slow world. In the two months that I was buggy bound (before we bought the bike trailer), I discovered parts of my neighbourhood that I never knew existed, having flown past them on my bike.
Reader’s Story: Cycling after Childbirth
I’d always assumed that cycling with my baby was something that might happen when the baby was older. This point of view changed when our German friends rolled up to a picnic with their 6 month old baby son in a bike trailer, comfortably secured in a specially designed baby hammock. The instant we got home the research started.
Four months later I find it hard to imagine life without the trailer. I use it everyday to go everywhere , except in winter when snow and ice make cycling dangerous and cold. It’s been on two cycle tours and even to London. It’s a gamechanger and has revolutionised my life as a cycling mother.
