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keke j.
im pregant with my second and due october 26th. my 1st daughter will be 2 by time i have the baby. when i go to the mall and stuff now she gets in her little umbrella stroller. so should i invest in a double stroller for both of them. im just wondering about if i get a single and i go to the mall without my husband will i have to chase a 2yr old down while pushing a stroller
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I have a 5 year old, 2 year old (he'll be 3 in June) and 5 month old, so they're each 2 1/2 years apart. This is what I found out the hard way. Double-strollers are NOT worth it. They're lunky, huge, heavy, bulky, impossible to maneuver, terrible in stores, and definitely NOT worth it.
When my 2 year old was born we decided to try the Ergo carrier for a while, with the idea that we'd get a double-stroller when he was 6 months old (since there's nearly no doubles that will lay flat and a newborn needs to lay flat, your choice is basically limited until about 4-6 months when they can sit up.) This was so convenient though that I just used the Ergo to carry him until my daughter was old enough to usually walk on her own. When she couldn't, the Ergo will carry up to 40lbs and in a backpack position, so one could be put on my back and I could still push the other in the stroller. This worked well.
Then I got pregnant with the third and I decided I HAD to have a double-stroller because I couldn't keep carrying a 35lb child on my back. I got a good one, Baby Trend since I loved our Baby Trend single stroller. What I found out is that the stroller itself is 40 something pounds. Then your kids have to be about the same weight for a side-by-side (which luckily my kids are, my daughter's very small and my son is about average for a boy, so it worked.) With both of them in the stroller, and the stroller itself, the whole thing weighs 100+lbs!!!!! The Chicco Cortina Together (which would lay flat) weighs 34lbs... the Britax B-Agile Double weighs 28lbs without adapters, but the lighter things weigh the more expensive they tend to be. The Britax B-Ready has two seats you can attach, but together it brings it up to 32lbs. And then you have to think... is your daughter really going to be riding all the time?
My recommendation would be to buy a carrier and just wear the new baby for the first year, at which point you can get a cheaper double-stroller, maybe a double-umbrella or a connector for two umbrella strollers, or a little seat behind the stroller for her to sit on, and use that. (Though even with the sit-and-stands I've never known anyone to use them past a year.)
I have a 5 year old, 2 year old (he'll be 3 in June) and 5 month old, so they're each 2 1/2 years apart. This is what I found out the hard way. Double-strollers are NOT worth it. They're lunky, huge, heavy, bulky, impossible to maneuver, terrible in stores, and definitely NOT worth it.
When my 2 year old was born we decided to try the Ergo carrier for a while, with the idea that we'd get a double-stroller when he was 6 months old (since there's nearly no doubles that will lay flat and a newborn needs to lay flat, your choice is basically limited until about 4-6 months when they can sit up.) This was so convenient though that I just used the Ergo to carry him until my daughter was old enough to usually walk on her own. When she couldn't, the Ergo will carry up to 40lbs and in a backpack position, so one could be put on my back and I could still push the other in the stroller. This worked well.
Then I got pregnant with the third and I decided I HAD to have a double-stroller because I couldn't keep carrying a 35lb child on my back. I got a good one, Baby Trend since I loved our Baby Trend single stroller. What I found out is that the stroller itself is 40 something pounds. Then your kids have to be about the same weight for a side-by-side (which luckily my kids are, my daughter's very small and my son is about average for a boy, so it worked.) With both of them in the stroller, and the stroller itself, the whole thing weighs 100+lbs!!!!! The Chicco Cortina Together (which would lay flat) weighs 34lbs... the Britax B-Agile Double weighs 28lbs without adapters, but the lighter things weigh the more expensive they tend to be. The Britax B-Ready has two seats you can attach, but together it brings it up to 32lbs. And then you have to think... is your daughter really going to be riding all the time?
My recommendation would be to buy a carrier and just wear the new baby for the first year, at which point you can get a cheaper double-stroller, maybe a double-umbrella or a connector for two umbrella strollers, or a little seat behind the stroller for her to sit on, and use that. (Though even with the sit-and-stands I've never known anyone to use them past a year.)
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