I'm having a hard time finding one. I have a TFK and at 13 kgs it is way too heavy. Can anyone recommend a stroller?
I am looking for a stroller that is less than 10kgs. It must fit a Britax/Römer baby car seat or take an adapter that fits one (like TFK strollers do) OR need no baby bed to be suitable for an infant (can fully recline and use a soft carry bed). It must also be able to take the weight of a toddler ie more than 15 kgs. I need a decent set of wheels too and not the tiny little smooth Maclaren ones that won't get up the wanderweg with grates to my house.
Not sure of the specifics you need but just to say I saw an advert in 20 Minuten this morning for Probaby and their 20% discount in store if you want to go and have a mooch round and see what's on offer.
I am afraid I can't help, since we did a tri-combo of Chicco (great, very light, with its own car seat and carry bassinet in plastic shell) and then when she grew (1 year and a bit) we started using Chicco for flying, since it is only 4,5kg.
We specifically wanted Chicco since they fit in every possible elevator, escalator and weird tight supermarket entrances and minimized toilet spaces, folds into small thing you throw in your car trunk with one hand. It needed to be light since we travel so much, Ponee is great for flying since you can hold it folded with one hand and have your babe in your arms and other luggage (or other kid) in the other hand. Very practical. I am 50kg so I cannot anything heavier than that.
On the other hand I am not sure if the quality of Chicco has remained the same as it used to be..The trio we bought was new but an old model, is sturdier than what they make now I think. We paid 500fr for it three years ago and Ponee was 200fr.
We got Romer car seat separately later on, it is spatious, does not click into any stroller thingie I don't think.
Have a look at Quinny on the internet. It has a adapter that fits baby car seat (but i think it supports only MAXI COZY) and it has a baby sleeping cot that goes flat, reclines into to semi flat position and sits up, basically it is for a babies from 0-36 months. The front wheel is a small on but it rotates 360 degrees and back one a decent sized ones. I used one for my son and he loves it. When I take out his lighter buggy he is always asking for his blue buggy(which is quinny).
The only disadvantage I saw was taking it up into trams and getting it down. When I am out with the quinny my sons sleeps for good 2 hrs when I get my shopping done, in the lighter one he is bound to be up in 45 mins as it is not very comfortable for him. I hope I did not sound like a AD but I really liked mine.
I agree with your point about quality, our Chicco (the lightweight model with a sun-shade, can't remember the name of the model but they are everywhere) fell to bits within 6 months and I don't feel we used it particularly intensively. We bought it so it would be an easier pushchair to hoist into a tram instead of the big posh pram we had from the beginning.
Friends of ours have the MacClaren equivalent and that seems a lot more sturdy and solid.
i am a nanny and have used many strollers. now i am not sure exactly the ones for car seats but my favorites are phil and teds (fitting best on trams and things) and the quinny.....i wore OUT a phil and teds and it's still going strong after almost 4 years with two kids everyday walking around! good luck!
For those of you in the Vaud region, I was in Baby 2000 this morning to buy a new car seat for my daughter. By stroke of luck, they have a 30% off sale on ALL child car seats. Also, they have 30-50% off many of their strollers (it could have been all of them but I didn't look closely enough - I did see many have half price stickers on them though).
Worth going now if you are in the market for any equipment. Here is the website for store locations www.baby2000.ch
Thanks for all your replies. I really need a lightweight stroller that I can push up the hill to where I live and do my shopping with.
Quinny - Zapp doesn't recline and have a very low weight limit and a Römer seat can't be used, bigger strollers are over 10kg.
Maclaren - not suitable for infants and don't take car seats.
TFK Buggster - takes Römer car seats, but 15kg max weight. All other models are too heavy.
Britax verve stroller - small wheels can't get over the grates to where I live.
Babywelt kiss - has anyone had experience with this brand? It is only available online
Hello Marie!
We bought a Chicco Multiway on Ricardo as a second buggy and are delighted with it
It is suitable to use as of birth and you can definitely put the soft carrycot in it.
It cost us about 250 on ricardo but I am sure you can order cheaper from Germany. If you decide to go for it, send me a message and I will dig out German sites who have it. It costs 99 Euro in Germany.
Quality wise: for sure for 250 CHF you do feel that it is not the same quality as a big Quinny stroller. the finishing are not the same, some accesories/neat things are missing etc but all in all, I found the price/quality ratio very good.
For that price you get raincover and front blanket for winter included.
Let me know if you want more info
Ciao
C
OOOh, I like that one. I think I am Chicco biased. It seems it fits everywhere as well as our old Chicco. Plus that practical bottle holder, makes me laugh, my hubby would always stick his beer there..
Thanks
It gets really good reviews too.
Does it recline fully flat? I live up a steep hill. Do you think the soft carry cot would slip out when going down hill?
love the beer holder too..
It is "almost" flat flat... very very slight angle.
Yes, it has excellent reviews and as said, for the price we find it really great Flew with it recently as well and it is great to be folded/unfolded with one hand etc etc...
Ok, it could not go on sand but doubt any of them really can... but we did off road etc etc
On the carrycot: I am afraid I really cannot help as I did not use one but am thinking there must be ways to fix this perhaps with velcro straps etc? How old is your baby? We only used carrycot about 4 months as baby was then curious to watch around.
Ciao
C
Chicco has a new one too called Trio for me with a reversable seat. link on the left in http://www.chicco.ch/
Looks great Don't think it will take a Römer seat though.
I need something from birth. The baby is still growing
We have the Chicco 4me and can highly recommend it.
Positives:
- use from birth with newborn
- fully reclinable seat to horizontal level
- lightweight
- larger wheels at rear for bumps, smaller front wheels for steering
- narrow enough to fit along check-out aisles without having to go through the pram aisle
- can be used in both directions, facing mum to begin with, facing the world when baby's older
- can be taken apart easily for storage in car (seat comes out and frame can be stored in separate places, depending on the amount of luggage you have)
- the execellent roof folds all the way down, so baby is completely can be protected from sunshine and prying faces. A little peak on the roof is a great sun-blind - baby can still see out while sitting in the shade. No need for fussy umbrellas or cloths and pegs.
- handlebar attachment between the two handles enables one-armed pushing and steering, which is essential if you have a bag of shopping in one hand.
- goes onto trams/buses quite easily.
Negative:
- not as robust as a larger mountain 3-wheeler, so not really good if you're out in the woods and countryside all day. I'm in the city, with occasional countryside outings, so it's perfect for us.
- mine is not such a fancy colour - beige/sand/cream - but maybe they have more choice of colours this year.
We've owned 5 prams / strollers (Knokin, Hauck, Quinny, Chicco Ponee) between our 3 kids and this was by far the best buy! Just wish they had made it 11 years ago!
I recommend going to a baby goods shop, such as Babyhouse Wehrli and really try out all the different models and features. Some online look good - then you see them in the shop, and it's not what you want at all.
I don't know if you've seen this thread yet - if you haven't, it may be worth a look through.
Thanks for the info.
The only issue is not being able to take a Römer seat. My son always slept when we drove, so I could click the iso fix car seat out of the base without waking him and put it into the pram or bring it into the house.
Babyhouse Wehrli is a long way from us and most shops don't show the weight and max allowable weight on the info tag. I'm pregnant with a little boy too, and toys r us and mcbaby nearby was enough for me last saturday. Online I can look up the manual and read the reviews.
This is what we had, but an older model and it was so practical. The umbrella stroller folds quickly and the basinet is so light. The car seat worked for us for some time, then we got Romer. I do not think you can click Romer in it. But the car seat it came with was sturdy and clicked in easily, I used it in baby's nursery to rock her to sleep then just clicked it in the bottom to go for a walk and vice versa, carrying sleeping baby from the car into the appartment. It is all so light.
The downfall is one never knows how much beating it takes, I had to get straps to strap my 6mo old in it, since she was climbing out and trying to stand up later, so we switched to the stroller. Heavy strollers are conventient (if you don't have to truck them up to the tram) since they hold balance easier.
As pp said, the roof on the straller is excellent. So private, baby learned quickly how to pull it down herself when she wanted to nap and didn't want people to see her. And you can maneuver it all over town so easily, it is quite tiny not like those SUV strollers. Now, if I could I would get the combo with reversible handle since it was annoying for our kid for a while that she faced outwards..
It is cheap. We kept being loyal to Chicco and got some really old one on Ricardo for 50fr just to go for walks since it is like a cruise ship and rocks so smoothly and for stuffing the great bottom storage area with 3 Migros bags with groceries...
I read lots of online reviews too. And thought that the Jeep buggy would be the one for us, or the Quinny zap. Turned out the Jeep weighed a ton and the Quinny Zap is really too small, doesn't lie horizontal for comfortable sleep. In fact, I think the Chicco is the only buggy that has an absolute horizontal lying level.
I would think about getting one solely for the purpose of the car seat attachment as it's not all that healthy for baby to stay in the car seat for longer amounts of time - practical though it may be. Discussed on the thread mentioned in earlier post.
Marie,
do I understand correctly that you wish the stroller to fit with Römer because you wish to buy the new Römer "car seat" which is not really a car "seat" but a cot where baby lies flat?
If I did understand correctly, what you could also do is buy a stroller which has a "car cot" meaning a cot with special belts and attachments for the car.
You do not see them a lot in this part of Switzerland (eastern) but they are quite popular in Geneva, France and Italy.
We had a car cot as I described for our Quinny Buzz and were delighted as baby vcould lie flat in the car and sleep peacefully for hours whilst we drived around, without us having to take her out for 30 mins every 2 hrs (these were the reccomendations we got for normal car seats)
Chicco has this for their cots and also some brands like Bebe Confort.
If you areinterested I can pull up more from my baby research folder
Ciao
K
I already have a very highly rated iso fix car seat with base from Volvo/Axis (Römer/Britax fittings). Safety is my prime concern, and I don't want to travel by bus with a small baby not in a car seat when I take my son to day care.
At the transport museum yesterday I went pram shopping :-) I saw loads of Chicco Trios going everywhere, but the TFKs and big prams were left downstairs.