We noticed it most when we travelled.
At home, we could adjust. Slow the day down. Head back if a nap didn’t happen. But on travel days — when you’re walking more, stopping less, and asking your pram to do a lot of the work — things felt different.
Our YOYO has always been our travel pram. Airports, holidays, long days out where you’re carrying snacks, bags, and a small human who is very much done with being carried.
But as our child grew, pram naps on the go became harder.
Legs hung off the edge. Sleep looked unsettled. And naps that used to carry us through a flight delay or a full day out suddenly felt fragile.
The travel pressure we didn’t expect
Travel with kids already asks for flexibility. But when naps stop working in the pram, everything else gets harder.
We found ourselves walking longer than planned just to keep sleep going. Avoiding sitting down. Timing coffee breaks around whether stopping would wake them.
It felt like the pram was still doing its job — but only just.
And that’s when we realised: our child had grown, but their travel setup hadn’t caught up yet.
A small change that mattered on the road
Adding extra leg support wasn’t something we’d planned ahead of a trip. It was one of those quiet tweaks you make because you’re tired of white-knuckling naps while moving through airports, streets, and unfamiliar places.
The difference showed up quickly.
Their legs finally had somewhere to rest.
Their body looked more supported.
And naps felt deeper — not perfect, but enough.
Enough to get through a long walk.
Enough to sit down for a meal.
Enough to let travel feel like something we were sharing, not just surviving.
Why it made travel easier
When you’re travelling with a child, comfort becomes everything.
Not just for sleep, but for rhythm. For giving the day a bit of structure when everything else feels unfamiliar.
This small adjustment didn’t change how we travelled — it just made the pram work harder for us again, in a way that felt kind to our child’s growing body.
Sharing from one tired travel family to another
If you’re finding that pram naps don’t carry you through travel days the way they used to, you’re not doing anything wrong.
Kids grow. Trips get longer. And sometimes, the gear needs to grow too.
This was one of those quiet changes for us — the kind that made travel days feel less rushed, less fragile, and a little more forgiving 🤍
For our family, that extra support came from an extra long leg rest designed to work with the Stokke YOYO prams, giving growing legs a comfortable place to rest during long days out and on-the-go naps.
