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Pushchair help please

Looops

Hi everybody, nice to meet you.

My son is 5 and a half and still needs a pushchair, however, because of his sensory issues it has to have a hood otherwise cue massive meltdown and we can't go out, and therefore the Maclaren major is no good for him Unless i can get a hood for it which will be added expense. Not only that but our local wheelchair services say it is a restraint to put him in a pushchair, he doesn't "need" it and is able bodied So won't help - unfortunately about right for our area whwire completely useless and apart from a fantastic school everything else is a fight..... Probably familiar to a lot of you I suspect.

So, back to the pushchair, not a cheap prospect as you can imagine! He is already 26kgs and 130cm tall so most ordinary pushchairs are out although I have found a couple that will take up to 35kgs in USA so would be suitable for him.....

Any ideas where to go to see if I can get funding (I'm a single parent student with an older child to support too and money is a little tight until I qualify) or suggestions of pushchairs that aren't the major?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice..... I could ask forever about issues etc but one step at a time hey lol :)

  • Hi again - his push chair + hood sounds like his armour against the world, by the sounds of it.  What a difficult situation for both of you.  Have any professionals been able to suggest anything to help with his sensory issues?  I don't know if there's info via the home page or the nas helpline which wd be useful - maybe you've already tried all these suggestions.  If you have, apologies.  How does he cope in school?  Sorry, I'm not much use!  Maybe others will be able to help more.Smile

  • He refuses to walk, will drop to the floor, bang his head etc, or will go floppy or stiff and then i can't pick him up because he is too heavy for me to carry back to the car, he lashes out, bites, hits etc and I have the scars to prove it!

    He also will not go into a crowded shop or place without it, if he is in a pushchair with a hood down "people can't see him" and he will sit quite happily and play on his iPad whilst we go out as a family. Without the pushchair he will have meltdown after meltdown because of the noises, and then I become a prisoner in my own home because he just cannot cope.

    He also runs away and has no sense of danger which is never fun when he has managed to escape before and drops to the floor in the middle of the road, and although he is never strapped into the pushchair he won't get out and run if he is in it. Wrist straps don't work because he is not hidden away from people and they can see him.

    I doubt they class these reasons as a good enough need!

  • Hi - cd you let us know why your son needs a pushchair?  You'll know that specialist "equipment" can be made + provided if you are categorised as "in need" of that equpment.  I think your local council, via social services perhaps,  It'll be helpful when people reply.  When my son was little we got some help from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. I can't remember what their criteria was now.  We got a couple of big household items + money for a holiday.  I don't know if they still do these things.  There cd be other charities etc who might help with funding.