Methobaby

Stroller, you are evil to me, right now.  I’m sure that the future will prove you quite useful and probably my favorite item of baby gear.  But right now, you perplex me.

My goodness the options.

Okay, I’ve got to confess something.  I have a little bit of a head start.  When i was 15, a little sister came into my life.  Back then, there was basically only one option, your traditional umbrella-esque, foldable stroller.  Sure you saw the occasional first-time, eccentric, spend-too-much-money parent pushing one of the larger strollers, but those wound up parked in the basement in favor of something lightweight.

But today, the umbrella-stroller is only one option.  You also have the jogging stroller, the modern take on the pram, and the urban stroller–something that will take the beating of the miles, has larger wheel, and collapses for those darts onto the subway.

General consensus here is that you need two… one for “reconnaissance” and one for “expeditions”.  In other words, you need a lightweight, foldable one, and you need a heavy duty one.

I’m thinking that we’d go with the umbrella and one of the more substantial city strollers, that could double as a jogger on S.’s morning walks.

Then there was the curveball.  The in thing to do is to get a stroller that will accept you infant car-seat (so you don’t have to wake the baby).  Remember the last post where the tipping factor between Graco/ Britax was length of baby?  Well, the Britax car seat does not seem to be acceptable to too many strollers.  But I think we’ve decided on this:

This is the Maclaren Techno XLR.  It’s foldable.  The handles telescope.  It accepts the Britax Companion car seat.  The only problem is that its so hard to find!  I want to find one before I decide.  Oh, and Maclaren invented the umbrella stroller.  I’m sold.

So the Recon Stroller is settled.  The expedition stroller is still up in the air.

Stay tuned

Edited: Yeah, so we go to the Maclaren store while in New York.  A wonderfully nice lady informs us that, contrary to claims on website, there’s no way the Maclaren XLR accepts the Britax Companion.  Back to the drawing board.