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Poll Results: Do you use a stroller?

 
  • 14% (18)
    Never!
  • 31% (40)
    We use it as much as we babywear
  • 15% (20)
    We use it more than we babywear
  • 39% (50)
    Other
128 Total Votes  
post #21 of 46
5/29/04 at 7:17pm
DS is almost two and over 30 lbs, and he likes to walk, so I don't carry him much anymore. We do use the stroller to walk to the park, or for walking around the mall. DH carries him in our kelty pack at the farmer's market every sunday, that's probably the most regular babywearing that happens these days.

Of course, as I type this, he's asleep on me in the OTSBH, so I do wear him sometimes.

Editted to add: I voted we use it as much. And we have a Maclaren vogue that I bought used that I really like.
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post #22 of 46
5/30/04 at 9:15am
I have a collection of strollers, but many more carriers I have a couple outdoor doubles/joggers which I use for my daily exercise.
post #23 of 46
5/30/04 at 12:39pm
We use the stroller about 25% of the time and the sling about 75%. We mostly bring the stroller if we're shopping so we can put out bags in it
post #24 of 46
5/30/04 at 12:51pm
We keep the stroller in the car and use it if we are going on stroller rides and such. I really like to let DS decide whether or not he wants in it or not.
post #25 of 46
6/2/04 at 2:22am
We have two strollers; both were gifts. One is a crappy umbrella stroller and one is a crappy Evenflo "regular" stroller. I like to take Bleuet for the occaisional walk in it, though often he will ask to be carried/worn (bf'ed) and I wind up pushing the stroller while wearing/carrying and bf'ing him. If we walk to the grocery store I like to have it to schlep all our stuff in. It's pretty weird when he falls asleep in it. I like the feeling of freedom, but it also makes me feel vaguely anxious whenever he doesn't fall asleep at the breast. I don't think I should feel that way, but I can't turn it off, either. I would really like to get a jogging/off-road stroller. The inactivity since being pregnant and having had a baby now for over a year is really getting to me. I foresee the stroller concept becoming difficult again, though, because now he wants to get down and walk and explore everything himself.
post #26 of 46
6/2/04 at 3:21pm
We have a small umbrella stroller. I didn't use it until I got pregnant with my second baby. Now I use it for my older ds when I know that we're going to be out walking around for hours. Like last month, we went to the Towsontown Festival and ds rode in the stroller while dd was in the sling.
post #27 of 46
6/2/04 at 4:36pm
I bought the stroller when I was PG. i don't even know why I bothered. I wear my son when we go out.
post #28 of 46
6/2/04 at 4:46pm
I have two kids and while I have sported a sutemi pack on my back with a homemade sling on front, I have to say that that is a really hard means of travel for me. So we use the stroller a lot too.

I take the double when I know I am going to need both hands totally free like at the park. I currently use the moby wrap and sometimes feel like it slips a bit and DS drops down. Not falls but just sinks too low. THen I have to take the whole thing off and redo it. ANyways, I wish I could babywear all the time but it just isn't practical for us all the time.
post #29 of 46
6/2/04 at 4:56pm
jogger -->gets use every day in my house. kiddo loves it, mom and dad are beginning to look great and like i said kiddo loves it.

umm also have a "travel system" we used when dd was first born. born via unplanned c section, dh works a lot so i needed it to help me carry her. after about 3 months of that, it got used very little.
post #30 of 46
6/2/04 at 5:27pm
i have an unhealth obsession with strollers LOL. i have owned many in the less than 3 yrs my oldest has been alive. the thing is, they aren't used all that often. i wore dd1 in a bjorn most of the time, and pushed an empty peg pergeo venezia wherever we were. we also had a pp aria for small trips that didn't require a need for a diaper bag or space for carrying bags ( this one has been sold). i tried those travel systems at first and HATED them. dd1 never tolerated being in the bucket so those got exchanged (we tried 2) for the venezia. then i found out i was pg and i bought a second single stroller ( teutonia "toni") and a martinelli tender twin. the martinelli was used 2 times then sold, the toni sits in the back of our second car as an "incase" stroller LOL. with dd2 she was in the sling from birth and now is almost always on my back. however, i LOVE to walk as exercise and baby wearing gets hard and heavy after 45 min of power walking. so, i bought a zooper twin air off of the TP and i LOVE it. the girls do too. it is a side by side, so that can interact. the seat recline all the way so they can nap, the canopy is enourmous. and the basket is huge. we also live a 5 min walk to the beach so i can load it up with all of our beach "stuff." it's so easy to push too, huge air filled tires it's great. down side, it's HUGE!!!!!!! and heavy. my dh calls is the SUV. so..................... it can't go OUT with us anywhere really. we went to disney last week and bought 2 umbrella strollers, but one person can't push both, and they don't have canopies so just this week i bought a inglesina double stroller, that is a side by side, umbrella folding, with canopies. this is going to be for walks in the mall, or trips home or airports. those kinds of places. my kozy goes with me everywhere, and if one of the girls has had enough of the stroller they come out and get on my back. i have tried the "wearing 2 kids" in public and not only is it heavy, but you get odd looks, and i can understand why. strollers have their place, they are nice to have when shopping, and my girls always sleep better if they fall asleep in the stroller. in the carrier, their heads flop around too much to stay asleep.

so, all in all i have owned 9 strollers WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's insane. right now we have 3 plus the 2 umbrella strollers, and 1 on the way. i think i need a stroller buying support group!!!!!!!!!!! :LOL i think i am going to sell the toni and the venezia though. they just aren't needed or used enough to warrant keeping them. last month we sold a crib, dresser and a highchair that weren't being used at all either ( we are having more children, but i have found that we just don't use these items :LOL)
post #31 of 46
6/2/04 at 5:38pm
I do use a stroller at times, but babywear more.
post #32 of 46
6/2/04 at 5:38pm
I have a few strollers too. (4) I think with the first baby you could live without a stroller but when you have a 2 year old and a newborn, diaper bag. There is just no way to do without one. I have a 1 double, one double/single, single and an unbrella stroller. But I also have 5 slings. LOL I collect things I guess.

Its called a car seat not a bucket.
post #33 of 46
6/3/04 at 3:19am
i call it a bucket because she didn't mind her carseat, a rear facing britax, but hated the buckets that come with those travel systems. we didn't use it as a carseat, so i'm not going to call it one.
post #34 of 46
6/3/04 at 12:29pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachel3612
Its called a car seat not a bucket.
That's just a tongue-in-cheek expression we like to use around here. I called mine a bucket, too.


Well, I didn't vote b/c our situation changed alot with age.

For the first 8 months of DD's life, we didn't own a stroller. She went everywhere in the sling.

We bought a Peg Perego when she began to get a bit heavy combined with parcels, etc. It did come in handy when out shopping on foot - we lived at the top of a long road with lots of stores, so going home all steeply uphill with packages/groceries, and a slung babe was getting to be too much. So for a while, we used them about equally, depending on the situation.

Now that DD walks we use both rarely. Probably the stroller more for trips to the zoo, etc. She's too big for me to sling for long periods of time, since I'm not in "sling shape" anymore plus I'm pregnant. I rarely sling her since she prefers to walk, but I do occasionally, like if she falls asleep in the car on the way to the grocery store I'll sling her so she can keep napping. Or if we are in a crowded area (like a recent street fair we went to) where a stroller would be a real pain, I'll also sling her.
post #35 of 46
6/3/04 at 12:34pm
well, i'll admit it. these days i use the stroller more then babywearing. My son is 10mos and about 22lbs and I had gallbladder surgery last week. I coudln't carry him at all till just yesterday without thinking i was going to pull stitches.

I have a jeep cherokee stroller and he loves the steering wheel. I have a buggy board on back for big sister to hop on and off of which she loves. We have the double jeep for the zoo and other huge events.

I do use the sling when not recovering from surgery to carry him when we're out and he's not happy in the stroller, shopping cart etc. But i'll admit it - we've been using the stroller more then the carriers lately.

That said - i have a sarahs ride coming in the mail any day now and i'm hoping that we'll both enjoy the way that feels - he's a "on my hip" kinda boy. Then i can wear him more
post #36 of 46
6/3/04 at 12:34pm
I know its just a tounge in cheek thing but it still irrates me that people give such a degrading name to something that will save your childs life. I am a CPS tech so I know what happens when people do not use car seats correctly. I have never heard of someone who calls it such a degrading name like a bucket to actually use it correctly. I have known people in real life that call it that too so its not just people online.

I am a CPS tech so to me a car seat is way more important than a sling or stroller.
post #37 of 46
6/4/04 at 2:35pm
we don't own a stroller. she's been in one once, and that was when some friends of ours insisted we take their stroller. we pushed her home in it, then put it in the garage and recently gave it back.

i just like wearing her.
post #38 of 46
6/4/04 at 4:41pm
We usually keep our stroller in the car "just in case" but I wear dd more than she strolls...she prefers to be at "people level" looking out at the exciting world around her.
post #39 of 46
6/6/04 at 1:45pm
We use the stroller now exclusively if dd is somewhere she cannot walk.

But that's only because I am 22 weeks pregnant, and she weighs 35 lbs, and I just cannot sling her anymore. She asks to ride in the sling whenever I get out the stroller, but I just have to tell her no....I can only go a few yards with her in it, and I am pooped and winded. Last time I tried, I had a lot of BH contractions, and figured I better lay off. She seems to be really bummed about it. It's kinda sad.
post #40 of 46
6/6/04 at 6:20pm
We bought a travel system when I was pregnant but never used the stroller at all until Fallon was about six months old. (Well, she was in it a couple of times just to see how she liked it - not much.) From about 10-15 months she wasn't in it at all as I stuck it in storage to get it out of my way for the winter. Now at 18 months I give her the choice, and some days she asks for the stroller, some days for my back, others for a sling on front. When we do go out for a walk with the stroller she lasts about 30-45 minutes tops, at which point she ends up in a carrier of some sort. Honestly I could have lived without a stroller, and if I knew then what I know now I likely wouldn't have ever bought one. BUT... it comes in very handy when I have a lot of packages to take to the post office. :LOL

Quote:
Originally Posted by morebabies
I currently use the moby wrap and sometimes feel like it slips a bit and DS drops down. Not falls but just sinks too low. THen I have to take the whole thing off and redo it.
OT I know, but thought I'd throw out a tip anyway. If this is happening to you then you likely need to start with it tighter. Tie it really snug to begin with; just enough room to get him in there. He'll drop a little within about five minutes, and after that he shouldn't drop much more. Definitely not to the point where you need to take him out and start over.
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