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5 Top Limited Edition Strollers

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Here are my top 5 picks: 1. Maclaren Quest – Beatles Yellow Submarine ($224.37) 2. Maclaren Juicy Couture Stroller, with matching Juicy Couture Footmuff (What, you don’t have $1000 to spare on an umbrella stroller + accessory?) 3. The Bugaboo Meets Missoni Stroller (Price: You don’t want to know.) 4. Baby Jogger City Mini – Fuchsia/Black Limited Edition ($199) 5. Bugaboo Chameleon – Demin Limited Edition ($1029) For more designer strollers for your ultra hip baby, check out this if it’s hip, it’s here post.

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Phil & Ted’s Most Excellent Stroller Review

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Phil & Ted’s Sport (Explorer) Our Joovy Caboose died last week. I think I had mentioned that this stroller doesn’t take hills very well; apparently it doesn’t take little cracks or raised lines, not to mention curbs, very well either. And so, last Friday night, we were pushing the stroller down a hill and hit a tiny little bump and one of the wheels snapped off. Not a snap in a way where you can snap it back on, but like the plastic around the wheel cracked and the entire wheel section snapped off. It now rests in peace in a nearby dumpster. Thanks to our generous dinner hosts, we borrowed a Phil & Ted’s Sport (Explorer) stroller (with doubles kit) for our walk home. As someone who has for a long time wanted to try out a P&T stroller, I was thrilled, and after our long, uphill walk home, I was sold (well, sort of). This is a good stroller. Okay, so the sun shade is not as good as the Baby Jogger City Mini sun shade and the basket is hard to access (though it is really nice and roomy), but it is still the best double stroller I have

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Joovy Caboose (Ultralight): Pros and Cons

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I’ll get right to the point. Joovy Caboose Ultralight Tandem Stroller Joovy Caboose Ultralight Stand-On Tandem: The Pros It’s smart — a stroller with a back seat that lets big kids sit or stand. It’s less bulky than a double and a lot lighter. With the addition of the carseat adapter, this stroller holds a carseat, making it into an extremely convenient Snap-n-go-like stroller that has an extra seat for the big kid. This was a huge plus for us, as we are still car-less and take lots of cabs. The big kid can sit facing you (with her feet on the platform), sit facing forward (with her feet in the basket), stand facing forward, or sit on her knees facing forward. That’s a lot of options for a 2- or 3- or 4- or 5-year-old who likes options. The big kid seat can fit a rather large kid, probably up to age 5. Maybe older. Though I imagine it would make the stroller a bit harder to push if the kid is very heavy. The stroller is easier to push than most doubles, especially tandem (front seat/back seat) doubles. In fact, it is known as a “stroller and a

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Doubles and Triples and Quads… oh my!

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When you are shopping for a stroller for your first child, the selection is, quite frankly, dizzying. If #2 arrives when #1 is still small and you need a double stroller, you will likely find something you like from the many options out there. If #3 comes soon afterwards and you need a triple stroller, the selection is quite dismal. It’s almost enough to convince me to let my almost-3-year-old stand on the sidewalk crying because he doesn’t want to walk to nursery school…but not quite. Buggy Board Maxi The best triple stroller advice is to avoid buying one in the first place. One option is babywearing the new baby (while pushing a double stroller) until the oldest walks independently. Imagine the upper-body strength you will gain as you push two toddlers in a double stroller with a child strapped to your body! I’ve tried this and it’s alright for short distances, but not for longer trips.  Joovy Big Caboose Another plan may be to attach a buggy board to your double. They are inexpensive and easy to use…if your toddler will consent to standing on one while his siblings sit. A double sit-and-stand stroller (like the Joovy Big Caboose) is another option. It is only marginally larger and bulkier than a standard double

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Jeep Liberty Urban Terrain Stroller

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Jeep Liberty — A Nice Fold! A friend recently asked me what I thought about the Jeep Liberty Urban Terrain stroller  and today I had the pleasure of bumping into it, trying it out a bit, and developing an extremely positive opinion on it. Now, I hate to sound like a snob, but I would have never thought to consider this stroller. Jeep is not a particularly well regarded brand, and while I don’t travel so much in the Bugaboo/Orbit/Stokke circles, I do tend to think more about the strollers in the $200+ category than those below it.(It’s peer pressure — what can I say? You begin to think that if the price tag is too low then it must not be any good.) Jeep Liberty Urban Terrain But the Jeep Liberty stroller really does seem like an excellent all-in-one option, even if your goal isn’t to save money. It comes with a kid tray complete with 2 cup holders, a snack tray, and even a little steering wheel toy; it has an adult console with cup holders and other holding spots. There is a GIGANTIC basket with easy front and back access. The handle bar is at a comfortable

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Stroller Consoles

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I love my Phil & Ted’s Stroller with Doubles Kit. It has decent storage when used a single stroller and great storage when the Doubles Kit is attached and there’s only one kid in it (the second seat holds lots of stuff). But when two kids are in it, storage is a problem. What’s possibly even more useful than my Stroll’r Swivel’rs is a handlebar console. I bought this one, which is currently selling for $21.99, four years ago when I got my stroller, and I’ve never looked back. It attaches easily by wrapping velcro straps around the handlebar. It has two cup holders, which I use for sippy cups, water bottles, bags of snacks, flowers my daughter picks on the way home from school, and other miscellany, plus a zipper pocket for valuables. The only problem is sometimes I carry a child up the four flights to my apartment and then realize I’ve left my keys and/or phone and/or wallet in the console. But I guess that can happen with any stroller. Oh, and it could probably use a washing after four years, but I don’t want to remove it and have to be without it! You can get

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Stroll’r Swivel’rs

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Sometimes it’s the little things that you just can’t live without. (Like your kids, for example.) My stroller has limited basket space and no storage in the handlebar, either. Enter Kel-Gar’s Stroll’r Swivel’rs. These ingenious little hooks hold your purse, shopping bags, child’s lunchbox, etc when you have nowhere else to put them. I’ve read reviews about them breaking easily, but used the same set for years with no problem. Just make sure you put both handles of your bag over both hooks, to distribute the weight evenly. And obviously don’t hang anything ridiculously heavy. At $7.92 a pair, even if you have to replace them every once in awhile, it won’t break the bank. I keep a second pair in the house just in case. Note to husbands: Do not use these hooks to hold your dog’s leash when you go for a walk. And if you do, for goodness’ sake don’t tell your wife that’s how they broke. She will just give you THE LOOK and walk away, disgusted.

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The Stroller Debate Part II

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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)

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