Is this a waste of money or good idea? Snap n Go until toddler???

seahoyden10

I can't stop thinking about this stroller business.  I'm obsessed.  What do you think of this strategy?

Snap n Go while they are infants.  (I don't jog but I will walk them in the neighborhood)

Then get one of the double strollers when they are toddlers and leave the car seats in the car? 

I keep looking at that big City Select which seems perfect for infants but then I don't like the tandem concept for toddlers.  And I do want the car seat option for the infant strollers and the doubles/side-by-side don't seem to have the option for 2 infant car seats. So when they're bigger, then I could get one of those City Minis or something?  Is this just a waste to do something like this? It seems that most of you have more than one stroller?

 I have no idea what I'm doing.

MrsLnt

I think it's hard to know exactly what you'll want when the time comes, but most of us have started out with the double snap and go, and gone from there.  I liked the versatility of the City Select and wish I would have had it from day 1 as a snap-and-go, but that's just me.  I will eventually get a side by side, but for now, the tandem is a great option for getting in and out of tight spaces, and I love that it can be a single, should that need ever arise. 

shellshavintwins

I loved my snap and go for right after my csection it was very lightweight, but mine was not very manueverable. It kind of handled like an umbrella stroller. I am going to be buying a single snap and go for this baby. 

seahoyden10

Hmmm.  So you would do the City Select and skip the whole snap n go thing if you could go back in time?

nycbride0707

seahoyden10:

I can't stop thinking about this stroller business.  I'm obsessed.  What do you think of this strategy?

Snap n Go while they are infants.  (I don't jog but I will walk them in the neighborhood)

Then get one of the double strollers when they are toddlers and leave the car seats in the car? 

I keep looking at that big City Select which seems perfect for infants but then I don't like the tandem concept for toddlers.  And I do want the car seat option for the infant strollers and the doubles/side-by-side don't seem to have the option for 2 infant car seats. So when they're bigger, then I could get one of those City Minis or something?  Is this just a waste to do something like this? It seems that most of you have more than one stroller?

 I have no idea what I'm doing.

 

I could have written this post verbatim (even though I know I have a loooong way to go!).

groovygrl

I don't really get the question. Toddler? You'll probably have them out of the infant carrier seats before you'd really call them  'toddlers' unless you're really strong, unlike me. LOL. And, the DSNG gets really hard to maneuver once they get heavier. I can't remember when I really started to struggle w/ it but they were probably around 7 months old maybe when we started using our city mini for walks & whatnot. 

Anyway, what I did & am very happy I did is did not decide anything about a 'real stroller' until I actually needed to- once I could not carry the kids in infant carriers anymore b/c it was too hard for me to lift them and DS was getting a bit long for it, we changed to convertible car seats & changed to a regular stroller maybe a little bit before that. New strollers come out all the time, so I just waited to think about it & test drive them until I was actually going to need one.

GL! 

ETA not sure I was clear here- I used the DSNG until we got the city mini. The DSNG is great but I don't know that you will be able to use it until the toddler stage...just until they're too big/heavy for infant carriers. 

joliemariée

DSNG is a total must IMHO. I loved ours and used it every single day until we changed to regular carseats at 1yr old. We got the BOB at around 8mth old for walking in the neighborhood and after switching to new carseats got the Combi...You really need a DSNG, it is a lifesaver not to have to wake a sleeping baby getting in and out of the car.seat  We just left our seats in the car most of the time, I never ever carried them around in their carseats by hand or needed to for any reason, I took the DSNG inside everwhere, including dr. appts etc.. ...HTH and G.L.