car seat

So what did we end up using instead? I bought a Graco SnugRider Infant Car Seat Stroller Framesecond hand and got a Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat as a gift. Overall, it’s a heavier package, I’ll admit, but it’s a lot easier to get it onto intercity busses (intra-city busses in Israel, at least, allow you to bring the stroller on the bus for an added fee – always worthwhile, in my opinion). You fold up the frame while the seat is on the ground, put the frame under the bus, and then you have your baby in a comfy car seat on the bus. Total price so far $138. The cheapest Peg Perego Uno I could find is $350 and you still don’t have a car seat. The downsides to this are:1)that you have to buy a second stroller when your child is one.2) the car seat is somewhat difficult to put in a car without a base. If you have your own car or one that you use often, the base is certainly a worthwhile investment at roughly $35. (You’re up to $173.87)

I think I’ve already expressed how these universal carseat carriers are smarter than your average stroller. Until your baby is too big for the infant carseat, why bother dealing with strapping in and out of the carseat only to then be strapped in and out of a stroller and then back again? Why shlep a heavy stroller when you can just snap your carseat into a lightweight frame? And last but not least, for the car-less ones of us out there, universal carseat carriers are a lifesaver when using cabs when you can’t just leave the carseat in the car. It looks like there are four universal carseat carriers on the market: The Graco Snugrider Car Seat Frame, the Kolcraft Universal Carseat Carrier, the Baby Trend Snap N’ Go Stroller, and the Maclaren Easy Traveler Stroller. They each have all the basic features: A place to snap/strap the carseat in, a large basket, cupholders/tray, and an easy fold. Let’s look at some of the difference. BASKET: The Kolcraft by far has the biggest basket (though they all really have large baskets) and it is easily accessible while the carseat is attached. It extends so far back, however, that people with

I am now the proud owner of a Sit’n’Stroll 5-n-1 Combination Carseat/Stroller. Wow. This is quite an ingenious product. I had been wondering what we would do when Hila outgrows the carseat/Snap N’ Go combo (or, even sooner, when we have to give the Graco SafeSeat back to Bethami). Car-less as we are, will we have to put Hila in our Baby Jogger City Mini (yes, I decided to keep it) and shlep around a carseat with us just in case we need to take a cab? No baby of mine will ride in a car without a carseat. So what do people in our situation do? And here comes the Sit’n’Stroll to the rescue! This is the direct answer to our problem. She’ll sit in the carseat and then when it’s time to get out we’ll pop out the wheels and extend the handle and VOILA! — we’ve got ourselves a stroller! Getting back into a cab? No problem — tuck the stroller parts in and you’ve got yourself an infant (backward facing) or older baby (forward facing) carseat! It also serves as a booster seat and an approved airline seat. It’s not heavy and comes with (at an

Yes. That’s right, and I’ll say it again: I want to return my Baby Jogger City Mini. I don’t even remember what my priorities were before, but now they are: Lightweight and large basket. I mean, what good is a stroller if it doesn’t hold anything. By the time I put the Baby Jogger rain canopy in the basket of the City Mini, there’s absolutely no room under there for anything else. And I was hanging a few bags from the Mommy Hook, but that ended up being a piece of junk and broke (okay, maybe I hung way too much stuff on it…but still). And then of course there’s the disaster with the stupid carseat adapter. And the handlebar really is too short for Menachem. I thought he was exaggerating, but his knees keep hitting the reclined seat. So what do I want? I want the Maclaren Techno XT or the Maclaren Techno XLR. Or even the Maclaren Quest Sport Stroller. Now I just need to call BuyBuyBaby and see if they’ll take everything back….

I should’ve gotten this from the very beginning. The Baby Trend Single Snap N’ Go Stroller is a godsend. No more tippy carseat falling off the stroller adapter, no more lugging the Baby Jogger City Mini up our 3.5 flights of stairs, no more leaving the house without a carseat and committing myself to not getting in a cab — all of our problems have been solved! Except of course for the low handlebar problem. I suppose ideally we’d have gotten the Graco SnugRider Infant Car Seat Stroller Frame which has a telescoping handlebar, but since we were lucky enough to borrow the Baby Trend Snap N’ Go (thanks Adina and David!), I’m certainly not complaining…though Menachem hasn’t actually tried it yet, so complaining may come later.