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I've been meaning to ask our ped, but they say no jogging strollers until 9 months, so I'm prepared for them to say the same about biking.

I was a big cyclist before getting pregnant and I couldn't wait to bike with DS. I did a lot of research and pretty much everything says to wait until your child is 1. That said, DS's first bike ride was around 10 months. Our requirements were that he had excellent head and neck control and could sit very well by himself. He also had the strength to be able to support the weight of a bike helmet (Giro makes excellent baby/toddler helmets). His first seat was an iBert front mounted seat. I would not have ridden with him in a rear mount seat at that age. I wanted to be able to see him every second of the ride. He only rode 2 or 3 times under the age of 1 though. After that, winter came and he was probably 14 months old the next time we put him on a regular rear mount bike seat. We have a Hamax brand seat, and he loves it.

We waited until around 11 months to use a bike trailer since pretty much everything I read says to wait until LO is one.