Great Beginnings

This is my current favorite the Pliko 3 by Peg Perrego. It runs about $300 retail.

I went to a huge baby store, Great Beginnings in Gaithersburg http://www.childrensfurniture.com/ and checked out the Stokee and Quinny Buzz that have been my favorite strollers thus far and found out that they are really impractical. To use the words of the salesguy,"Ma'am, these are the sports cars of strollers, nice to look at but very impractical and heavy." And boy are the quinny and stokke heavy!!! Not to mention the bugagoo which I still liked is also cumbersome, heavy and a lot of pieces.

In comparison, the Pliko 3 made by peg perrego (sp?) is a lot lighter and doesn't have detachable parts to it. The car seat locks right into and and you're ready to go. If you are traipsing around on your own, the cheaper strollers make a lot more sense. i.e. baby in the car seat then you have to take the stroller out on your own, mind you that you're just getting over having gave birth and recovering from that.

Also, it's hard to decide right now without the baby so, it might be a better bet to just buy a decent car seat and for us 2 bases (one for each car) and then a really basic snap-in base of a stroller ($60) and then figure out what kind of stroller you want going forward. Talking to mothers, there is no "one" stroller for all occasions so it looks like you get one for the mall and easy walking and then an umbrella stroller for travel or shorter jaunts. I seriously saw at least 100 strollers on display.