How not to break mummy's back

Despite investing good money into kick-ass strollers, I'm still hardly poster-girl for easy breezy baby handling.

Remember the monster which earned myself & the hubby lots of dirty looks?

Granted, this is indeed a very versatile good-looker and the boy looks pretty damn comfy in it. It's just very unfortunate that there's been too many instances I've had to bring the boy out on my own and it involves mustering every inch of strength in me to even bring this pram-zilla out from the car boot. And I honestly can't imagine doing this without the fallout stabbing Conrad's eye, or breaking my back.

And the quick solution to this was naturally, a baby sling.

Baby wearing worked great! In fact, it worked so well, he preferred to be worn at home too......

And then I thought, maybe if we tried one of those structured baby carriers (which doesn't envelop him that snugly), he would be less niam. Well either he grew out of wanting to be skin close to mummy all the time or this successfully achieved my goal of weaning him off wanting to be 'worn' all the time. But alas! Babies grow REAL FAST. Who knew right?

By the time he was four months old, he weighed more than 7kg. It may not sound much, but lugging that load around for a full hour whilst grocery shopping requires one to have mastered significantly advanced levels of Kungfu. Which, I have not.

So how?

Buy another stroller lo.

This time, priority will be given to ease of use. It had to satisfy the following criteria:
1) lightweight (no, 12kg is not light, I'm looking at you Quinny)
2) easy to operate (after God gave Eve breasts, he was too distracted to remember giving her another pair of arms)
3) safe & comfortable (won't want Conrad to feel like he's on iGallop), and
4) handsome (kidding not)


And with these parameters, I reembarked on my "find the perfect stroller" journey. After obsessiveextensive research and reading approximately 10,000 reviews on the internet, I narrowed the choices to the Peg Perego Si and the Combi Urban Walker.

Both fulfills the above stated criteria. The Combi had a slight edge cause it's lighter and operates with a one-hand open & close mechanism. I preferred the Peg Perego cause I felt it was sturdier. But the hubby prefers the Combi cause he felt we might as well go all the way if we wanted light. Studier = Heavier

So, surprise surprise! We got the Combi. In Aqua. If I had my way. It would be pink.

But that's alright. I'm saving all my pink-ammo for princess Kitty ??? I haven't thought of one.

I've been using the Combi for weeks now, and it has served its purpose.  Did I mention it has active suspension? No more dreadful back-breaking shopping trips. Gotta give it to em' Japanese.