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Stroller Q - Contours Options

If you have this stroller do you love it? Or can you recommend a stroller that converts? I have the Joovy Twin Roo, but G is almost out of his infant seat so I need a different option. B will probably be in her infant seat till she graduates high school, plus (shockingly) baby #3 is on the way, so I need a stroller that can switch between 2 infant seats and regular seats. (We will use an umbrella stroller for G, when wearing the baby isn't more practical, instead of buying a massive 3 seater.)

The Contour Optima comes highly recommended but I can't see loading/unloading 3 babies and having to assemble/disassemble the stroller too.

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Re: Stroller Q - Contours Options

  • chrissynenachrissynena member
    edited January 2015
    We have this stroller, and so far have only used the infant seat attachments. You don't have to take those off to fold it up. It drives nice tho. Easy with one hand, while I have my toddler. But man is the frame bulky. It was a gift so I'm not going to complain. I saw that when you use the actual seats, you only have to take one off to fold it up.

    Edit to say I think I'm going to get the skateboard attachment for the back for DD. Just to get us from point a to point b, or wear a baby and have her ride.

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  • I have this stroller and love it! Have not used the actual seats yet, still have the girls in their infant carriers. It's big but it drives so nice and has a large basket for storing stuff when out. We put DS's umbrella stroller underneath when he wants to walk.

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  • We had it and it really suited our needs! It would really be perfect for one infant seat and one regular seat. I actually liked it a lot better when we switched it to the seats instead of car seats (we also had the joovy twin roo - I felt like both served totally different purposes) 

    And i did love the basket for walking to the grocery store. I always folded our with both seats in - we had the seats facing each other. 

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    I actually just sold it, since I sold it as an entire set with the car seats, bases and twin roo, since I had all of the car seat attachments to go with it, but I would have totally kept it as our walk stroller. 

    I replaced it with the City Mini GT which I am also loving and since I have a small car works better to replace the Joovy Twin Roo. 
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  • I had the Contour Options Tandem (in blue) and I LOVED it.

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  • For the 1st year, the kids were in Graco 35 snugrides and I used the baby trend snap & go! I loved it. It was so nice to not have to get them in and out of their car seat. It also had a great basket underneath that I used when I went grocery shopping.

    Around the time they turned 1, we put them in convertible car seats (RF) and started using the double baby jogger city mini. We still use this stroller ALL the time! I love it!

    We do have nice single umbrella strollers that go up to 50lbs and have tall handles so you don't have to bend over to push them. When we go on vacation, those are nice to have.


    I can't help you with fitting the new baby! You could maybe wear that baby in a carrier and push your twins for the first 6 months or so??

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  • @KDR1979 What brand umbrella strollers do you have? One with tall handles would be great.

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  • @DoublePortion

    We have 2 of these single umbrella strollers. We got them at Buy Buy Baby & I am pretty sure that we used 20% coupons on them. :)

    https://www.buybuybaby.com/1/1/26971-umbrella-strollers-summer-infant-3d-lite-convenience-stroller-black.html

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  • Thanks, ladies for your feedback! I ordered the Options yesterday and can't wait to get it in!

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    Me: 30 ~ Stage IV Endo ~ AMH .38 ~ AFC 8
    AMH .97 as of 4/2012! ~ AMH 1.63 as of 4/2013!?!

    Him: 29 ~ perfect swimmers

    Laparotomy w/partial oophorectomy 8/2009 to remove cysts/endo.
    Stopped BCP 4/2010.
    Multiple clomid rounds from 11/2010 to 6/2011. ~ All BFN
    IUI w/clomid 7/2011. IUI w/clomid & injectables 11/2011 & 1/2012. ~ All BFN

    IVF:EPP 5/2012 ~ (4R, 3M, 2F w/ICSI). Both embryos txfrd. ~ BFN
    BCP to manage endo from 10/2012 to 12/2012.
    FET w/donor embryos #1: 10/2013 Cancelled
    FET w/donor embryos #1.2: 11/2013
    ~ ET of 2 beautiful blasts on 11/27.
    Beta 1: 503(12dp5dt) Beta 2: 1035(14dpt) Beta 3: 3001(16dpt)
    Beta 4: 8503(19dpt)
    Twins with an EDD of 8/15/14! Team Purple
    G&B born 6/30/14 at 33w3d via emergency c/s.


    If you're wondering about my avatar...it's a fried pickle chip shaped like a fetus!


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