Strollers in Brownstone
so we just had our little baby girl. we live in rowhouse with 5′ high stoop and 4′ deep basement. it means wife needs to pull the stroller up or down the stairs. and she had problems with it. she got crazy stokke stroller just because it alegedly easier to pull up the stairs. but…
so we just had our little baby girl. we live in rowhouse with 5′ high stoop and 4′ deep basement. it means wife needs to pull the stroller up or down the stairs. and she had problems with it. she got crazy stokke stroller just because it alegedly easier to pull up the stairs. but I do not see how.
so the question is: what you do about pulling stroller up the stoop? any particular tips about stokke stroller? she also asked aboul building rails to roll the stroller up the stoop. does it make any sense?
rob>most of the strollers i see in park slope arent big at all and most people seem to carry their babies in sling like things? j
You don’t live in PS or you’re blind. Most of the strollers around here are HUGE. Try walking past them in COmmunity Bookstore or Key Foods where the aisles are narrow.
> especially with all the pressure to spend a gazillion dollars on a stroller
What bloody pressure? From your mother-in-law? From the stroller-mafia? That’s the weirdest statement so far.
rob>most of the strollers i see in park slope arent big at all and most people seem to carry their babies in sling like things? j
You don’t live in PS or you’re blind. Most of the strollers around here are HUGE. Try walking past them in COmmunity Bookstore or Key Foods where the aisles are narrow.
> especially with all the pressure to spend a gazillion dollars on a stroller
What bloody pressure? From your mother-in-law? From the stroller-mafia? That’s the weirdest statement so far.
You don’t bump the stroller up or down brownstone stairs, you lift it up and carry it. It’s very awkward and puts little Sadie at a funny angle, but it’s the only thing that really works. You just give the stroller a big bear hug.
If the stroller is too big to grasp this way, you have the wrong stroller.
Congratulations on your baby girl! I never had the courage to bump the stroller up and down stairs. I used the car seat snapped into the frame until my daughter was old enough to hold her head up and then switched to the maclaren. Hang in there – this will all start to get easier …
OK, I had to chuckle at Rob’s 2:24. He’s got a point. You all know what the definition of a yuppie is, right? Someone who makes more money than whoever is using the word. It’s a sliding scale word.
Please don’t be mean to Bobjohn. He is a regular poster and English is not his first language. Also, I thought he was an engineer — maybe he works as an engineer for a bank?
Bobjohn, I don’t know anything about strollers but would like to say CONGRATULATIONS on the new baby. How exciting! Yay!
collapsible stroller – has thing so kid can lie flat.
umbrella stroller – just a lightweight fabric sling (like an umbrella.) Not so comfortable for long periods of time.
On second reading, it seems these people may own the house, and the basement their garden level. which makes the question so much sillier. they can put the stroller any d*&% place they want! (and buy as many different types of strollers as they need. most people I know have both a sturdy collapsible like a mcclaren, and an umbrella for when they occasisonallyi need less bulk/weight. didn’t realize everybody also had a jogger for the park and snow – maybe homeowners, not apartment dwellers – they are bulky to store.)
It’s the I’ve got a brownstone, I’ve got a baby, an expensive stroller, and life is so hard … so I can see why this detoured to a discussion of ps.
i disagree on the ‘chuck the stokke, buy a jogger / umbrella stroller’ advice. we’ve had the buggaboo chameleon for 5yrs (now for the second kid), never had another stroller. hate umbrella strollers with a passion b/c they are a complete pain to handle on the streets. one caveat – we don’t have a car and i rarely take the bus, so no need to collapse the stroller often.
Rob, your unprecedented concern for brownstoner’s babies is laudable, however your bedbug-mania is OTT.