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I am going to be a first time mom and I need help finding a good stroller!! :)
What I am looking for:
Light weight as possible (I live on the 3rd floor)
Easy to move around corners
Has a sun shield
And most important.....
Is a stroller that has a removable car seat so I can use it for when my little girl is a newborn, infant, and toddler. I just don't want to have to go and buy a new one with each stage :)
thank you!!!!!!!
Answer
Strollers that lay flat are safe for a newborn, strollers that use a car seat actually are less than ideal because the car seat scrunches their back, tilts them forward more and can cause breathing problems as well as possible back issues. The SIDS studies still recommend laying a baby flat to sleep, not leaving them in a car seat. Also, hauling the car seat in and out of the car is heavy. It makes your 7-10 lb baby into a 27-30lb baby... which is as heavy as my 4 year old daughter and 20 month son, both of whom would be able to walk up the stairs. Basically, by the time they weighed as much as that car seat + baby they would be able to walk themselves instead of having to have me carry them up. If you want lightweight and easy to move, then you have got to dump the idea of using a baby car seat as anything but a car seat.
With my daughter I used a Graco travel system and it was miserable until I got a baby chest carrier (cheap one) and I used that a lot after she was 6 months old, so with my son I got an Ergo baby carrier and skipped the whole stroller situation. Besides, I liked the single stroller I had for my daughter (baby trend jogger, they're not that heavy, easy to push, and for going up stairs the big wheels make it easy to turn them around and just haul them up, but not while the baby is in it because of safety issues.) The Ergo was lightweight, easy to put on, easy to wear, didn't bother my back, and my son really loved it. The Ergo weighs something like 1lb if that, they do have sunshields (really) and are far easier to move around corners than any stroller on the market.
After a baby can sit up (about 4-6 months) you can get any stroller out there without worrying whether it lays flat or not. So you can find an ultralight one. Also you can go on craigslist and find one that someone is getting rid of fairly easily. Link one weighs 14lbs for instance, link 2 weighs 11lbs, link 3 is 8.8lbs!, but you wouldn't be able to put a baby in it until they were able to sit up (6 months easily). Then you'd be able to use it until your child was 50lbs (which typically is 5+.) So by putting off buying a stroller at all for 6 months and using a baby-chest carrier instead for the newborn stage, you basically would be able to get a very light stroller that would last the rest of the infant-toddler-preschooler years.
But to point it out, even now if I'm going in a store where a stroller would be hard to handle in and out or too bulky, I put my son in the Ergo and he happily rides on me while I look at the books and such. He's nearly 2. Most babies don't outgrow the Ergo until 1 years old at the earliest. And your hands would be free to hold onto the handrails walking up the stairs rather than trying to balance a stroller and carrying a car seat to boot up the stairs. Far safer.
Strollers that lay flat are safe for a newborn, strollers that use a car seat actually are less than ideal because the car seat scrunches their back, tilts them forward more and can cause breathing problems as well as possible back issues. The SIDS studies still recommend laying a baby flat to sleep, not leaving them in a car seat. Also, hauling the car seat in and out of the car is heavy. It makes your 7-10 lb baby into a 27-30lb baby... which is as heavy as my 4 year old daughter and 20 month son, both of whom would be able to walk up the stairs. Basically, by the time they weighed as much as that car seat + baby they would be able to walk themselves instead of having to have me carry them up. If you want lightweight and easy to move, then you have got to dump the idea of using a baby car seat as anything but a car seat.
With my daughter I used a Graco travel system and it was miserable until I got a baby chest carrier (cheap one) and I used that a lot after she was 6 months old, so with my son I got an Ergo baby carrier and skipped the whole stroller situation. Besides, I liked the single stroller I had for my daughter (baby trend jogger, they're not that heavy, easy to push, and for going up stairs the big wheels make it easy to turn them around and just haul them up, but not while the baby is in it because of safety issues.) The Ergo was lightweight, easy to put on, easy to wear, didn't bother my back, and my son really loved it. The Ergo weighs something like 1lb if that, they do have sunshields (really) and are far easier to move around corners than any stroller on the market.
After a baby can sit up (about 4-6 months) you can get any stroller out there without worrying whether it lays flat or not. So you can find an ultralight one. Also you can go on craigslist and find one that someone is getting rid of fairly easily. Link one weighs 14lbs for instance, link 2 weighs 11lbs, link 3 is 8.8lbs!, but you wouldn't be able to put a baby in it until they were able to sit up (6 months easily). Then you'd be able to use it until your child was 50lbs (which typically is 5+.) So by putting off buying a stroller at all for 6 months and using a baby-chest carrier instead for the newborn stage, you basically would be able to get a very light stroller that would last the rest of the infant-toddler-preschooler years.
But to point it out, even now if I'm going in a store where a stroller would be hard to handle in and out or too bulky, I put my son in the Ergo and he happily rides on me while I look at the books and such. He's nearly 2. Most babies don't outgrow the Ergo until 1 years old at the earliest. And your hands would be free to hold onto the handrails walking up the stairs rather than trying to balance a stroller and carrying a car seat to boot up the stairs. Far safer.
Twins......stroller help?
Q. I am looking for a double stroller travel system for twins. Do they make the double stroller that fits both car seat carriers at the same time? I have been looking every where for one that does that and all I can find is the kind the only fits in front not back.
Does anyone know if the car seat on a double stroller fits in the front and back?
I hope I explained correctly.
Does anyone know if the car seat on a double stroller fits in the front and back?
I hope I explained correctly.
Answer
Hi I'm a mim if twin girls 6mos old and I have the baby trend snap and go and it adjust to almost any car seat and two car seats fit at one time it is so light weight and durable i call it the cadillac of strollers and I would be lost without it steers really good cause i'm a pretty bad driver but this does it with ease and it fold up easily to.I love like i said I'd be lost w/out it. I bought it online at target you most likely will have to by online cause most stores only carry the one for one car seat. but i paid $100 and got free shipping. so happy hunting hope i helped.its not side x side if thats what u wanted.
Hi I'm a mim if twin girls 6mos old and I have the baby trend snap and go and it adjust to almost any car seat and two car seats fit at one time it is so light weight and durable i call it the cadillac of strollers and I would be lost without it steers really good cause i'm a pretty bad driver but this does it with ease and it fold up easily to.I love like i said I'd be lost w/out it. I bought it online at target you most likely will have to by online cause most stores only carry the one for one car seat. but i paid $100 and got free shipping. so happy hunting hope i helped.its not side x side if thats what u wanted.
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