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Originally posted by robustpuppy
A couple of random recommendations:
The full-sized baby swings take up a lot of space in proportion to their utility. I would skip it in favor of a baby seat with a toy bar, which you could also skip if you buy an infant car seat rather than a convertible seat.
The Kolcraft universal car seat carrier, which costs around $50 and serves the same purpose as a stroller for an infant, has a huge basket. I don't have one but I covet my neighbor's for that reason. My Graco stroller's basket is smaller and is thus less useful at Trader Joe's. This will become important when your realize there is really no good way to handle an infant and a grocery cart at the same time.* (The car seats are not secure on the carts, and the seats on the carts at the store, provided you can get such a cart, are hard and icky.)
My point is that you can get that Kolcraft thingy for the first year while your kid is in the detachable infant car seat, and then wait to buy the stroller you will find most useful for your needs later on. My Graco stroller will be useful when the baby outgrows the car seat so it was not a waste of money, and I like it because I am tall and the handle is actually at the right height for me. But despite being one of the lightest strollers on which you can put a car seat, it's still a bit bulky and takes up nearly all the floor space in the back of my wagon.
*Unless you want to remove the sleeping infant from the car seat into a baby bjorn, and back again.
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I sort of disagree. The swing saved my life, so many times. Sometimes it was the only place the Brazenette would be happy. You just never know with these things.
And I always took the infant carrier thingy and snapped it onto the child seat part of the grocery cart. I don't know... probably not safe, but nothing bad ever happened.
