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Tell me about putting your newborns in double-strollers

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- sideXside jogger type - that do NOT have the infant carrier adapter. I really want to know if this is feasible. I really don't want to spend a ton of $$ on a double that takes a carseat if we can get away without one. Do you just lay the infant down flat in the seat and bundle up good? I really need realistic opinions. Baby#2 is due end of nov and I want to be able to go for walks asap....as in a few weeks after his/her birth.

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Re: Tell me about putting your newborns in double-strollers

  • kevschickee2kevschickee2 member
    I have a front and back double stroller and I put the baby laying down in the back.  It has sholder straps and everything.  I use to use the carseat in it to and they arent really that much more than strollers that dont take one.  I used the infant seat from Halee and I didnt care that they didnt match
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  • JOEBunnyJOEBunny member
    I have a mountain buggy urban, I have seen my friends with Bobs, Easy Walker Duo Sky, and phil and teds and the all lay flat for infants with the double.  I always just wrapped DD up and off we went.  If it is super cold where you live, you might look at the chariot, which has an integrated weather shield which is great in really cold weather.
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  • UGAbrideUGAbride

    My youngest is 3 weeks old, and I have both styles of the Phil & Ted's (the sport with doubles kit for out and about, and the side-by-side for neighborhood walks).  Neither takes a carseat (at least not my carseat) and I have put my newborn in both strollers several times already with it fully reclined.  I just strap him in and off we go!  It's been warm here so no bundling up yet, but I do have a bundleme to use when the weather cools down, and a snuzzler positioner I've been meaning to put in there (but he's fine without it). 

    It'd be nice if I could just plop the seat in the stroller, but truly it has worked out just fine not to.  When I know we are doing something where we are just going in and out then I just use my single travel system stroller for the carseat and carry my toddler in (like when I drop my toddler off at preschool, I carry him in and push the stroller with the other hand). 

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  • penguingrrlpenguingrrl member
    If you're worried about walking in really cold, maybe use a wrap or sling for the newborn so he/she is nestled up and gets your body heat.  I know I've seen maternity coats with a "reversible" panel designed for baby wearing after the baby is born... the larger part that was covering the belly flips upside down giving room for the baby's head!  I saw someone using one in a store last year and asked and she got it at nordstroms I think and loved it!
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  • ElizabethDElizabethD

    Funny you ask!  If you follow my sig blog I just blogged about double strollers and have a link to the one I got.  Its seat goes all the way down and I'd put my newborn in it.  My kids are so long they don't last in the infant car seats past 4ish months so I didn't want to have to get a stroller for just a few months... liberated myself to "any" double stroller.

    I also got mine on clearance for 100 from 200 in January - I got the VERY last model so I'd ask at BRU when they get the new models in and clearance "this years model".  I'm guessing that starts in Nov?

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