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?
Why make fun of this guy? Trying to determine the best stroller for city living is hard, especially with all the pressure to spend a gazillion dollars on a stroller. The Stokke is the silliest stroller on earth btw. It looks like you’re pushing your child around in an office chair.
OP, here’s practical advice from another parent (not somebody who never had kids like most the comments here): Go ahead and use the Stokke during the initial newborn months but get rid of it as soon as baby can hold her head up and go in another stroller. Everybody who splurges on some huge expensive stroller always always ends up with a Maclaren. Everybody also has a jogger whether they jog or not, for pushing across the grass at the park or for getting through huge snow drifts in Winter. I don’t jog but thank God for our jogger or this snowy Winter we’d have never gone anywhere.
As for bouncing up and down stairs, goodness, everybody does it. The jogger bounces up and down stairs very easily. Always get the lightest weight one you can when you have to navigate stairs. For an umbrella stroller, the brakes and other things on most of them catch on stairs either going up or down one or the other or both, so you have to carry the whole stroller with baby in it. Or carry both separately. So again, get the lightest weight one you can. The Maclaren bounces down stairs well but pulling up the tab to collapse the stroller gets caught.
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Buy it second hand just to be even more unstressed about it disappearing.
no do NOT buy a second hand stroller!!! unless you know the person you are buying it from! there was a story on the news awhile back of a woman who bought a second hand stroller and her baby was eaten alive by bedbugs!
*rob*
how old is your baby? your wife will get used to it. don’t know how the stokke stroller handles but we have a buggaboo and i had similar problem when we moved from elevator / doorman building to a brownstone with a stoop. i just pull the stroller up the stairs – my baby would actually sleep through it so couldn’t have been that bad. honestly just a question of practice.
OP, isn’t that top part supposed to pop off so you can easily bring the baby up the stairs, set it down inside the door, and then grab the rest of the stroller and bring it upstairs without the baby? is your wife not able to detach it?
for the haters above, check out the limited addition sheepskin “winter kit”. http://www.stokke.com/en-us/stroller/xplory-gallery.aspx
With a cumbersome stroller, you take the baby out, bring her inside, come back and get the stroller. And as soon as she is big enough you get a MacLaren umbrella stroller…. Big ass strollers and stoops are not a winning combination. My daughter ended up in the ER after tumbling down the stoop while strapped into her stroller (not on my watch, of course).
before y’all turn this into a ps stroller rant (oops too late), note that:
a- poster is from bay ridge and
b- mentioned not ps.
but by all means let’s make this a (retread) conversation about entitled ps moms and their double-wide strollers.
bc it’s so so interesting.
collapsible standard McClaren, easy to carry both baby and collapsed stroller if need be. Also, when collapsed, it doesn’t take up much room. I don’t know about the dreamt-up head bobbing probelem – all those collapsibles have an adjustement so the baby can be virtually flat. Moreover, due to the odd Stroller-anxiety status sufered by many brownstoners, no-one is going to steal it if you carelessly leave it around. Buy it second hand just to be even more unstressed about it disappearing.
Jaguar, I think you’re kidding, but hopefully a three year old should be walking up the stairs, so should a two year old. 🙂
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Yes, I do hate large strollers with more wheels than a Mack truck and disc brakes. Gives Park Slope a bad name
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? just my observation tho. i find it funny people will rag on 1200 dollar strollers but heavens forbid someone rags on seriously overpriced dank brownstones in shitty ass neighborhoods or worse 15 dollars a scoop ice cream, then it’s it’s well it’s just what the market will bear and who is it to you what people can afford and if you dont like it find a better job or ooooooh youre just jealous. hahah it seems like ridiculously overpriced strollers are the only thing people are allowed to rag on these days, not youre overpriced apartments?
*rob*