Most baby boards seem always have negative things to say about travel systems.. but my husband and I were at toys R us this week shopping for his nephew and we saw some really nice looking travel systems on display. Whats so bad about them?
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We have one and I love it. I think they're bulkier than most people like, but for me its worth it to be able to transfer a sleeping baby from car to stroller and vise versa.
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The stroller is bulky and takes up a lot of cargo space in our small SUV. That's my only complaint. But considering the stroller takes up more than half of our cargo room it's often inconvenient.
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I have a Graco travel system and love it. The only complaint is that it takes up our ENTIRE trunk. But I don't care - I love that it's convenient for me to just plop sleeping baby into it.
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The bulk is the biggest drawback. For us it was that and the fact that the infant carseat part is only really used for about the first year. Also, we rarely use a stroller and prefer to babywear so it didn't make sense for us.
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I think it depends on what your purpose with it is and some of that is hard to tell before you have the baby.
For me I knew I wanted a jogging stroller, I'm a runner, I want the option of running with baby, and not a crappy jogging stroller an off roading lovely. So we got a BOB, which actually folds up really well for the car.
However, my parents got an umbrella stroller for their house and offered for us to take it back and I'm just not a stroller in the store person. It stresses me out thinking of unfolding a stroller getting baby situated and using her as a ramrod through a crowd. I can't do it, I much prefer baby wearing in stores, but that's not something I knew until I had baby. So a travel system would have been unused for us. -
The space it takes up. You can just as easily pop an infant seat onto a stroller frame that is much easier to toss in the car without eating your whole trunk.
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I have one and love it. I don't have anything to compare it to since it's all we've ever used. But if I were asked for a recommendation that's what I'd recommend! Especially because she's often sleeping by the time we get out of the car so I like to just put the carseat in the stroller and go.
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nothing! I got a universal click stroller thing. Only problem is we only used it for as long as we used our infant car seat (7 months).
A lot of strollers have adapters so you can add pretty much any infant seat to it.
I know Bob strollers are compatible with a lot of infant seats. -
I agree with Mrs. Yoyo. I LOVE my Snap and Go, and couldn't imagine why I would want a full-size stroller just to sit my infant seat on it. And if I take the infant seat out of the equation, there are other regular strollers that I just like better. (We have the City Mini. Folds up easily and small)
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LO has outgrown the car seat but we loved our travel system. We bought a Peg Perego Vela stroller and it folded down to the same size as the snap and go so there wasn't any extra bulk. We still use the stroller.
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@lozza - Exactly. Plus I knew much better what I did want in a stroller after tooling around with the baby for a while. I would have hated to be stuck with a trav system stroller that didn't meet my needs.
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