Are Duo Strollers A Necessity?
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During this Labour Day weekend, while we spend time hoping labour doesn’t start early (aside: we’ve had Braxton hicks and tons of baby movement, which when combined with a very large baby make a normally nervous pregnant woman even more concerned about premature labour), I assembled our new stroller: the Fisher-Price Stand & Ride Duo Stroller.
We had hoped that our infant carseat would fit in such a way that the sitting option would be available to our daughter, but that is prohibited by the design. For the first part of our new baby’s life, she will stand or walk beside.
Interestingly, we arguably don’t even need the new stroller, because our daughter hasn’t used our existing stroller since the spring. In that time, we have done several trips to the zoo, where it was my wife who needed to take breaks, not our three year old. However, since we jumped on this stroller when it was on clearance back in February (it was discontinued, and was the one my wife liked the most when we investigated stand/sit and ride options), we could not return it. So, I put it together and figured it would offer my wife an option to keep a closer tab on my daughter when she’s having a snack or something. But really, we don’t need it.
For those of you with more than one child, did you purchase a new duo stroller? What was the age difference between the two kids? How much use have you gotten from the duo?
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AndreAnna says...
We use the sit-n-stand, not FP and even with the infant seat, she can sit on the bench. C refused her stroller around 16 months anyway, and this way she can stand or sit. She loves to stand and talk to her brudder.
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Dawn says...
Hi, SciFi Dad. Just discovered your wife and I are in the exact same week of pregnancy! (35, right?)
Too funny… I’m getting strong BH contractions, too…but I’m also taking Evening Primrose Oil and Raspberry Leaf Tea to encourage them. With gestational diabetes, they don’t really want her going to 40 wks.
Russ says...
Hey SciFi! As you know we have two (2.5 and .5) and we invested in a duo-stroller ($35 at Target, on clearance). Other than being a beast to navigate, especially after being accustomed to the single strollers, it has proved to be a lifesaver. Mr. B loves to be in a stroller, and at times when we make him walk he will still try to climb in and push Miss L out. When he has his own seat, that’s not a problem.
The other route the we go is single stroller and a pouch carrier. The only issue there is, we grow big kids in my family, so they size (or weigh) out of them fairly quickly.
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Whit says...
We’ve never been big stroller people, but the sit and stand has been as good as advertised. About the only time we’ve ever used it is at Disneyland, but we go there fairly often and it provides the perfect place for the oldest to rest, either standing or sitting on the bench while the youngest navigates from the cockpit.
Of course now that it has been stripped by stroller hacks it’s lost its resale value, but we still got our monies worth.
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