Stroller-Baby Envy

I'm sure everyone has seen someone walking down the street, pushing a stroller and carrying a baby. For those of you with 'stroller-babies', you probably wonder to yourself "what is up with that?". Oddly there are babies who do not like (and may actually hate) being in a stroller - and I managed to give birth to two of them.

When I was pregnant with Owen I ran regularly until I was 7.5 months pregnant (when my hips started hurting too much). I would run past women pushing babies and toddlers in jogging strollers and imagine myself doing the same. I bought an Urban Mountain Buggy stroller that could be used to run with. (Which, by the way, I absolutely loved)

My bubble was burst almost instantly, however. The first time I put Owen in his stroller (with a nice, plush JJ Cole Bundle Me bag) he cried and cried until I picked him up. And so it was for the next few years. I would go for walks with friends with their babies and they would be pushing happy babies in strollers and I would be carrying mine.

Now some people might say that he just needed to 'get used to it'. Those would be people with stroller-babies. Anyone with a high-demand baby will tell you that they never get used to it, and unless you want to listen to your baby while he screams for an hour, you start to use a carrier or sling almost exclusively. Owen was most happy once he was big enough to be in a baby back pack - not too constrained and a nice view of the world.

Alex has turned out to be another high-demand, stroller-hating baby. I try on a regular basis to walk with her in the stroller. She has lasted 30 minutes a few times, but most often I end up switching her into my Baby Trekker. I wish she would like the stroller mainly because she is more shaded from the sun. But it just isn't meant to be. I even tried a high-end Bugaboo Frog yesterday, thinking that perhaps she just has expensive taste. Didn't like that one either...

The Baby Trekker it is...