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@getjazzy: Do you live in the city or the suburbs? Wondering how often you use your stroller now...

I'm not much of a help, but I'm having the same problem.

We have a UBV (older model) and I'm not in love with the rumbleseat (the new ones look WAAAAAY better). My ds will be 2.5 when LO2 arrives.

I'm thinking of adding a double stroller, and keeping the UBV for when ds1 outgrows the stroller phase or when just taking out 1 of them.

I dunno!!!!

I also have a B ready that we got during the Free Ride event the summer before LO was born. Just from a financial perspective, my personality is to make the B-ready work over shelling out more money for a City Select. When on mat leave and on summers, I never drive at all, so I take our stroller everywhere--grocery shopping, restaurants, play dates, walks, errands....

I would only get a different stroller if it were free or less that $100 or something.

But my husband is extremely frugal and I am semi frugal, so it's just our personality.

@getjazzy: We were in pretty much the same situation. We kept the B-Ready but it ended up taking a year to have our second child, so they are 3 years apart. We hardly ever have a need right now for a double with this age spacing. If the older child does need a break, one of us baby wears or carries the baby for a bit and lets her rest.

I really enjoyed on my maternity leave having the option of just the single. My older child was also in school often so for trips to the grocery store with just the baby, I could easily use my stroller.

I had this same issue. I used the UBV with the rumble seat for about 8 months and always hated it. Really hard to maneuver and just didn't love it. I bought a used side by side double (bumbleride indie twin) for the same price I sold the UBV with rumble seat for. It's so much easier, comfortable and convenient!

@getjazzy: ahh gotcha. Too bad you are waaaay far away or you could have my B-Safe, pops right in! But I guess having to bend down to reach the baby isn't ideal anyway. You could also investigate a stroller board for your older kiddo...Britax has one, or Joovy makes a good universal one.

@getjazzy: We actually bought a B-Ready when we were pregnant with #2 (had a B-Agile before that) because we preferred it over the City Select. Our older child likes riding in the bottom seat because it's "cooler" and she like climbing in and out. Also, the stroller can fold with the second seat in-- with the City Select, you have to take the second seat out, hold it separately, and then fold the stroller. The B-Ready also didn't feel as "long"-- more like driving an SUV than a limo (which is what the City Select felt like for us).

We got the carseat adapter as a gift, and to be honest, we rarely used it. We would have C in the bottom seat, and the new baby either snapped into the bucket on top, or we would recline the regular top seat and have him in it (almost like a bassinet). When you get the second seat, it comes with these little extenders for the main seat that you can pop in, moving the main seat a few inches away from the bottom seat rider's head, giving him/her a little more room.

I guess my point is to not write off the B-Ready as a double completely-- now that H is a little older and can sit up, we have him in the bottom seat, and C's back on top. We switch them around, too. How about keeping the B-Ready as your "commuter" stroller and buying a used double BOB? That's what we have going on-- BOB for walks around the neighborhood (and if we are doing any big park trips or beach trips), and the B-Ready for regular outings that require the car and trunk space.

My kids are 4 (in March) and my baby just turned 2 in december. I sold our city mini gt double today!! We havent used it in over 2 months. I still have an umbrella stroller in case we need something.

Have you tested out the City Select as a double? We were debating both the b-ready and the city select and we tried out both as doubles because we want to have our kids close together. As much as I wanted to like the city select more, I just didn't. It was really hard to maneuver as a double, especially with weight in it. But the b-ready still maneuvered really easily.

Sorry to threadjack, but has anyone with the B-Ready put the infant seat on the bottom? My 2 year old is already too heavy for the second seat (35 lb limit). Just wondering if it's hard to push with the car seat on the bottom.

@Anagram: Thanks! That's good to know about the tipping. I figure it's worth at least trying it that way before we cough up the money for a whole new double stroller. LO #1 will be 2 yrs 8 months when baby comes, so I'm not sure he'll tolerate a stroller long enough to justify the cost!

@getjazzy: we use the b ready as a double. We keep older LO in the bottom and he doesn't mind at all. The only thing he doesn't seem to like is that he is so low he can't press the buttons to cross the street. I will say I don't like how he can easily reach the wheels. He doesn't always try but we did really have to work to get him to not do it.
We tried to put the infant carrier on the bottom but we don't have a britax and couldn't get it to work with the two adapters. I kind of prefer having the baby up higher anyway.
I did consider getting a different stroller vs buying the secondseat but I'm happy we stuck with ours!