Baby Gear and Stuff
(Note to Family: To see the strollers I am talking about in this post click on the underlined text.)
So our hunt for the right baby gear continues. First of all, the amount of gear there is for a baby is absolutely amazing. Then second of all, the number of choices there are is mind boggling. But ultimately it is about getting the gear that is the right "fit" for you.
Everyone has an opinion and it is surprising sometime how personally some people take their decisions. I am hoping that Dan and I will be able to maintain a reasonably unemotional stance when it comes to all of this because ultimately the decisions need to be what works best for you. Anyway.....back to the "stuff"....
So the gear hunt started with the stroller - umbrella versus travel system versus something in between versus the almost worshipped Bugaboo stroller. Now, on the Bugaboo, we have friends who have it and love it. But they are all NYC residents living in apartments. So they are not faced with our semi-suburban lifestyle of getting in and out of cars combined with walking a fair amount. This helped to eliminate the Bugaboo because it is really only for those in a city where there is not a lot of getting in and out of cars - the seat portion has to be removed from the base to fold it up. Plus, there is the $900 price tag that takes one's breath away. But, this leaves the panopoly of other stroller choices out there.
When we first went to look we got the lecture from the guy in the store on the most popular strollers and why etc etc. and we came away with a certain set of choices. But the process of thinking about it brought to the surface for me some of the notions I had in my head as to what my ideal stroller would be. When I was a little girl, I had one of those old fashioned baby prams that I would put dolls and cats in and push around. I realized how important it was to me to have that with my own child - the stroller, not the dolls and cats :-). (It wass like when Dan and I arranged our wedding, we knew that there were certain things that needed to be there so it felt like a wedding...) So the hunt for a pram type stroller began.
On the one hand, it had to be practical - there are new versions of the old fashioned prams out there but they are not collapsible etc. On the other, it needed to provide that wonderful, look at your baby design. We looked at a LOT of options. But I think we have found it. Very exciting! :-) It operates as a typical stroller. But then you can turn the handle around so the baby is facing you and the seat sits flat. All the things I wanted in one package! :-)
Of course, now the search begins for the perfect infant car seat. And that is a whole other story to be told another time....
So our hunt for the right baby gear continues. First of all, the amount of gear there is for a baby is absolutely amazing. Then second of all, the number of choices there are is mind boggling. But ultimately it is about getting the gear that is the right "fit" for you.
Everyone has an opinion and it is surprising sometime how personally some people take their decisions. I am hoping that Dan and I will be able to maintain a reasonably unemotional stance when it comes to all of this because ultimately the decisions need to be what works best for you. Anyway.....back to the "stuff"....
So the gear hunt started with the stroller - umbrella versus travel system versus something in between versus the almost worshipped Bugaboo stroller. Now, on the Bugaboo, we have friends who have it and love it. But they are all NYC residents living in apartments. So they are not faced with our semi-suburban lifestyle of getting in and out of cars combined with walking a fair amount. This helped to eliminate the Bugaboo because it is really only for those in a city where there is not a lot of getting in and out of cars - the seat portion has to be removed from the base to fold it up. Plus, there is the $900 price tag that takes one's breath away. But, this leaves the panopoly of other stroller choices out there.
When we first went to look we got the lecture from the guy in the store on the most popular strollers and why etc etc. and we came away with a certain set of choices. But the process of thinking about it brought to the surface for me some of the notions I had in my head as to what my ideal stroller would be. When I was a little girl, I had one of those old fashioned baby prams that I would put dolls and cats in and push around. I realized how important it was to me to have that with my own child - the stroller, not the dolls and cats :-). (It wass like when Dan and I arranged our wedding, we knew that there were certain things that needed to be there so it felt like a wedding...) So the hunt for a pram type stroller began.
On the one hand, it had to be practical - there are new versions of the old fashioned prams out there but they are not collapsible etc. On the other, it needed to provide that wonderful, look at your baby design. We looked at a LOT of options. But I think we have found it. Very exciting! :-) It operates as a typical stroller. But then you can turn the handle around so the baby is facing you and the seat sits flat. All the things I wanted in one package! :-)
Of course, now the search begins for the perfect infant car seat. And that is a whole other story to be told another time....
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