Oyster3 Stroller

Babies get a lot of early social development/emotional regulation by being parent facing from birth. I know I smiled and talked to my babies a lot more because they were looking at me. We've used an Oyster 3 (secondhand off Facebook marketplace, and got replacement parts when they broke from ebay) and it's not compact but the seat can lay flat and change to parent/world facing. It fits flat if I take one wheel off in my Peugeot 208. It looks like a Yaris is a similar size boot.

another vote for the oyster! we bought the oyster 3 in august 2023, using it again now for our second baby! it's really hard wearing, i've loved it and will be sad to part with it when baby is older! i'd look at the oyster 4 now though

Seconding the suggestion to go try some out and consider what you want out of a pram - do you go on lots of walks on mixed terrains or are you mostly popping around the city and hopping on and off public transport. Do you have a big or small car. Do you want to have lots of storage underneath or is that not necessary. Are you likely to have another soon, in which case ones that can convert to a double pram or have an inbuilt buggy board would be worth considering. For us, we’ve got an Oyster 3 and really like it. There’s the Oyster 4 out now but it’s similar to the 3 with a few upgraded features. We used our pram with our eldest until he was about 2.5-3, now we are using it with our second. It’s got a good adjustable handlebar (husband is tall), folds easily and relatively compact for a full size pram, isn’t too heavy, good storage underneath, decent sized canopy for naps, good wheels for when we go on walks to national trust properties etc. If I were buying a pram now though I think I’d be looking at the ones where the bassinet also folds down, that wasn’t a thing when we bought ours but I think it’s a great idea as the bassinet part does take up a lot of room in the car.

We used the Oyster 3 and used to carry baby upstairs in the carrycot often. It is a sleep safe carrycot (watch out for that; some are not necessarily intended as a proper sleep space though they're fine for little supervised naps, so think about whether you might want to use the carrycot as an actual second sleep space - we did when travelling). I don't live in a flat but our house has the living room and kitchen upstairs so we'd usually want to take the baby upstairs when we get in if still asleep. It can also be rocked gently while on the floor which can help soothe baby back to sleep if they start rousing with the lack of pram movement. However, I'm not too sure that I'd go for this one if i were you living in London, as it's not the most compact travel system. You could see if you could find it on display somewhere (or I think it might be oyster 4 now) to see what you think. Alternatively some prams have "cocoon" attachments, only for little newborns but they are great for carrying sleeping babies. I now use a Mountain buggy duet (because I have a baby and a 2 y/o) and it can be used with either carrycot or cocoon, both of which are suitable but the cocoon is probably easier for your purposes. You obviously don't need a duet but there are single prams with this option too like the mountain buggy nano.

I have the Oyster 3 and have loved it - I'm still using it for my second baby now, so it's withstood heavy use for 4+ years. It folds fairly flat and is lightweight to push around - other people have also commented on the latter, compared to their own prams. I got the bassinet as well, so use that as well as adaptors for a Joie car seat. I don't know anything about the Oyster 4 tbh, but if it's like the 3 I'd say go for it!