We bought a shade a babe for £29.99 from Amazon more to cover summer holidays abroad than much risk from the UK sun. As such over the 30 months we've owned it we've probably only really used it on 11 or 12 occasions with three foreign trips and some unfeasibly hot, sunny days last summer. The idea of the shade a babe is that on sunny days it protects your little one from the UV rays of the sun, it is a darkened cover that you place over your pushchair which means the little one can see out and you can see in but everything is darkened both ways. My initial thoughts on this were that it was too large, too bulky and as our little one got bigger it ...  Read the complete review

The summer of 2005 was a hot one-yep we had an ACTUAL summer here in the UK! My son was born in early May so he was still very small when the hot weather hit us. I wanted to have him out and about in the pram getting fresh air but was concerned about the sun on his very young skin. Initially we picked up a parasol type sun shade product and I have to say it was a load of rubbish! It fell, it flopped and needed constant repositioning and so we knew we needed to look into other alternatives. It was then that someone recommended a shade a babe to me. I had never heard of them but apparently they were all the rage in Australia and so I bought one from an online ...  Read the complete review

We used to live 5 minutes walk from the beach in Bournemouth. The sun was always very hot in the summer when you used to be down on the sea front and on the beach. When my daughter was very young we used to like to go down there in the summer but I was always worried about the sun glaring on her when she was laying in her pram for her nap so when we found this Shade-A-Babe in Boots it was a bit of a God send though an expensive one at £35.00. The Shade-A-Babe is like a rain cover but instead of protecting your child from the rain, it protects them from the sun and its powerful UV rays as well as keeping the glare of the sun out of little eyes. The shade is ...  Read the complete review

For my eldest child I had a canopy style wrap around shade which was a good idea but kept falling off and so was no use at all! I was moaning about it to a friend when she recommended the Outlook shade-a-babe. What is it? This is essentially a canopy that covers the whole pushchair think of the rain cover but a sun version. The product is made of a triple layered mesh like fabric and a uv shade at the top. What does it do? Basically the shade protects your child from UV rays it also cuts out the glare which means your little angel can still fall asleep! The product also prevents insects from getting into your pushchair and also ...  Read the complete review

I purchased a shade-a-babe when we decided to go on our first family holiday to Paphos in October 2008. Our son was 5 months at the time and I really wanted something to cover his pushchair and protect him from the sunshine for when we were out walking. My friend recommended the outlook shade-a-babe to me as they had previously purchased one and told me how wonderful it was. I purchased my shade-a-babe from the official website - www.shade-a-babe.co.uk, it cost me £32.99 which included postage. You can get second hand one's slightly cheaper on Ebay but I decided that I would like a new one as we have quite a few holidays coming up so would get our use out ...  Read the complete review