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?
Can she carry the baby in one hand and the folded stroller in the other.
What would you have done back a few decades when we didn’t have foldable strollers, just those big gorgeous carriages?
You’ll be pros at pulling the thing up the steps in no time. It’s just what people do.
Can you talk to your building about leaving it under the stoop? Presumably someone has storage under the stairs.
earlier generation,:-)
of course, maybe the point is that the wife really wants to move to an elevator building, rather than do all the heavy lifting that raising a child in a brownstone walk-up entails. All that carrying is good for building muscles. Not so great for those with bad backs.
SUV – huh? Had to look that up. Cool stroller. (NOT like an SUV – it is more ergonomic, not less like SUVs which are harder to steer around obstacles, being built (mostly) on truck, not car, bases.)
But, since the child is higher up on this stroller, I would think it would make the stroller harder to carry with the child actually in it – unless one is very tall.
And, I’d check with stokke, but I would doubt they’d advertise as being able to be pulled up stairs – that just sounds dangerous and dumb.
Babies can’t sit upright in umbrella strollers, there big fat heads just flop over onto their chests.
I learned everything i know about steps and baby carriages from Sergei Eisenstein…
Best way for a new born is to use a car seat mounted on stroller base, then detach and bring that up and down separately. The base you just muscle up and down, or rely on the politeness of strangers to do it for you. Don’t see the appeal of those Stokke’s, can’t load them up with all the other shit you need to carry.
Great. So you got an SUV stroller (if the website is correct) and are complaining about lifting it 5′? Do you bring it into stores and block the aisles too?
Get an ‘umbrella’ stroller..it’s cheap and is quite easy to fold up and carry like … an umbrella.
swap wife out for earlier generation.