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We don't have a car, which means we had to have a stroller. But we would go everywhere...the grocery store, shopping, to cafes, museums, galleries and just walking around our walkable city. I get hot really fast when baby wearing, and since you said it's hot were you live, I personally wouldn't want to do a ton of baby wearing.

ETA: as for other lightweight strollers, we had a Maclaren Techno XT from birth with our first LO and it was our only stroller, which was perfect for our lifestyle at the time. We still have it 5+ years later and use it as our travel stroller.

We went to the doctor, the store, walking in the neighborhood, and after one month we started going to Mom's group once a week. We also went to a conference when she was 4 weeks old, to visit her Po in the hospital at 6 weeks old (3-hour drive), and to grandparents houses for the holidays.

I also only wanted one stroller and ended up with three: Snap and Go, BOB jogging stroller, and a Bumbleride Flyer. I mainly used the Snap and Go and the Flyer and run with the BOB (it's too bulky to take everywhere in my small car).

At one of the BBBs in our metro areathere was a stroller expert who was awesome with helping us and others make the decision. Coworkers recommended him so we trekked to it one day when he was worked.
I am not familiar with the ones you are looking at. We ended up using the stroller the first few months for lots of neighborhood walks and walks on paved trails. We used the stroller a lot more than the baby carrier.

I have a 3 month old and a g luxe and I don't think I'd be comfortable putting her in there...maybe that's just me though. I would definitely want to be able to see her while in the stroller, and the suspension on the g luxe is not great. That being said, I do think that you can use carriers a lot in the first few months, but it will depend on your baby. My LO sleeps great in a carrier, but if she is awake (which has been more and more since about 2 months), then I need to be moving around, I can't just be sitting down with her in the carrier or she freaks out. SO that would make it hard to just have that as my main option--I think it would make me feel anxious. I don't know anything about the armadillo--is it fairly light weight and compact, or is it a big heavy stroller like the ub vista?

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Haven't recieved it yet. My MIL insisted on gifting it to us and baby isn't due until May.

@hilsy85: yeah I can't imagine a 3 month in a G-Luxe either.

I also can't imagine not having an infant seat. Taking her out of the convertible seat to put in a carrier to walk around Target would have woken her up. And then who knows if she would go back to sleep. I tried to walk the trail at the park every day, it would have been way too hot to wear her and do that.

We baby wore for 10 weeks. FWIW I did not even research when she could ride in our stroller. She just looked big enough at 10 weeks. We have the city mini GT. T rarely naps in the stroller, but almost always in her ergo if she's tired. We did not have an infant attachment.

I have yet to use a stroller with my 7 month old. I wear her EVERYWHERE!!

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: my lifestyle is totally different than yours- live in the city, walk way more than I drive, so I can't totally comment on where I would take baby in your situation. And my first daughter hated the stroller for the first few months (ironically until I started using the infant car seat in it instead of the bassinet that I thought was better) so I mostly wore her in a wrap all the time. It was summer and hot and humid so we both got really sweaty but she was happy.

The downside is that when we got somewhere, like a restaurant for lunch or something, I had no place to put her down and had to sort of sit back from the table and eat over her head instead of pulling a stroller up to the table.

I think you are smart to wait until baby is born and see what you want. Maybe you will both love baby wearing and it will never be an issue and you can't start using the gluxe down the line. Maybe one of you won't like baby wearing and you will want a stroller right away, so you can buy the armadillo.

Oh and my last two cents- I really really liked having my LO face me for a long time. Again, we walked a ton so it's different but I love looking at her while we walked, talking to her, seeing when she fell asleep. And I needed those walks to give us both fresh air in addition to getting places.

We went everywhere with baby. I'm another one where it's my nightmare to be trapped in the house for weeks on end. I baby wore, but I also used the stroller a ton. We would go shopping (mall/Target/groceries/etc), out to eat, to the pediatrician, and for walk around the neighborhood, all using the stroller.

For shopping I needed the stroller because 1)I didn't want to wake the baby, and 2)I needed it to be my pack mule for the diaper bag and tons of other stuff that it seemed like we needed at the time. It's really hard to shop, wear baby, carry the diaper bag, and carry any bags of stuff you buy.

As others pointed out, it's tough to babywear and go out to eat. Way more convenient to have him in the stroller. I loved it on maternity leave - he'd fall asleep in the car, we'd move the seat to the stroller and go into the restaurant, and he'd sleep the entire time. It was great to feel normal and do something enjoyable.

For the pediatrician waking him up wouldn't have been the problem, but I wouldn't have wanted to have to get him out of the convertible seat, wrap him/get him in the carrier, get up to the exam room 5 minutes later and have to take him out. And once I did the pediatrician alone when he was tiny and I had to have a safe place to put him down. I don't know about other offices but ours just has adult chairs and an exam table, and you can't exactly leave the babies on those for even a second.

Another consideration, my DS hated being in our stroller that faced away from us until he was almost a year old. I tried to use our b-agile without the carseat and have him in the regular seat and he freaked out because he felt like he was alone. I didn't like it either because I couldn't see him. Every baby's different, but with that experience I would only use a stroller that has an option for an infant to face the parents. It's worth the extra money in my experience.

I used my stroller all the time in the early days to get out for a walk so I didn't get super bored. We had the uppababy vista and used the bassinet.

I voted for the Armadillo XT - is it the one where the baby can face you? As some other posters mentioned, this seems like a better choice (even though i love my Gluxe). The canopy also seems MUCH bigger.

One thing to think about is whether you run hot. I babywore quite a bit in the summer, and my chest/belly was always drenched in sweat after 20 minute or so of walking around. I always worried about the baby getting overheated as well.

We used our Uppababy Cruz as our only stroller until 1 year when we got a Mountain Buggy Nano for travel. While we did have the UB Mesa infant bucket that clipped into the Cruz, we stopped doing that fairly quickly because our son hated the carseat but was happy as a clam in the regular seat. We didn't buy the UB newborn insert - instead we used the Summer Infant Snuzzler which cost like $10 bucks and did the same thing. I'm certain we had him in there before 1 month and he was just under 7lbs at birth, so not a big baby at all.

Mostly we just took walks every day in the 0-3 month range - sometimes twice a day - because my son was colicky. He would either fall asleep for a few minutes or the screaming was less pronounced outdoors than it was ringing off our walls. The neighbors got real familiar seeing my husband and I walking around like zombies with a screaming baby and we were grateful we had a stroller we loved day in, day out. Otherwise, we would walk to the grocery store (the storage basket is huge on the Cruz) or drive to doctor's appointments or Target/Costco.

The Cruz is not really a small/compact stroller, but it folds and stands up and the suspension is really smooth for suburban life. It is pretty big in terms of hefting it in and out of the car, but its definitely not as bad as the Vista and we keep it in the house most of the time. We really liked the ability to switch DS from facing us or facing forward and we still use it almost every day at 17 months.

While we had carriers that we used, my son just personally hated being worn and my husband felt more comfortable with a stroller than the Ergo, so we tended to use our stroller the most.

Honestly, I would skip a stroller for now, until you better know your needs after baby gets here. I know that's hard to do, what with wanting to be prepared. But you're commited to babywearing, and assuming that works out, you may not need a stroller for quite some time.

My kiddo is 5 months and we've used our stroller maybe 5 times. We drive most places, take baby with is everywhere, and babywear every day. I've never brought a stroller to the grocery store or restaurant. The few times we've used ours has been for long walks. I've gotten used to eating while babywearing, and have no problem babywearing at restaurants.