Nuna Pipa

Thread: "HELP! So many stroller choices!"

I have the Cybex Gazelle S and I love it so far. My baby isn't due for another 2 weeks, so I haven't used it aside from pushing it around my house, but it's very easy to use. Feels sturdy and maneuvers beautifully. I like that when collapsed it can stand on its own, and folds relatively compact for transport. I bought the bassinet/cot to go with it so I have options other than the car seat for when baby is little. I'm also super jazzed about the shopping basket attachment (I don't drive so love the extra cargo space). The process to collapse it while relatively easy takes a bit of getting used to. As the salesperson said, it requires some "ompf". I'm still able to do so easily myself, but it takes practice to get the feel. My only other complaint would be regarding ease of car seat attachment. I bought the Nuna Pipa car seat as it required no additional adaptors. It's really easy to snap in, but not as easy to remove. I need to keep practicing as while it's as simple as pressing the buttons to release it, I find it requires some muscle to actually get it off the stroller, and that's without a baby in it. I'm hoping it gets easier as I actually do it more/break it in, but I'd have to say if I had one major complaint, that'd be it. I recommend going to a place like BuyBuyBaby that has those strollers in stock and practicing playing with them. I did that with my gazelle s and was super happy, but didn't practice the car seat part, which I wish I did.

Thread: "Nuna Pipa or Chicco Key Fit car seat?"

We had a Nuna n my cousin had the KeyFit - we flew to visit them n borrowed the KeyFit from them when we landed at the airport (I’m not going to discuss flying with babies. Don’t bother.) In comparison, they both offer similar safety - rebound bar on both. But the Nuna has a load leg. The main difference - the KeyFit is SOOOO much heavier than the Nuna. Literally the first time we buckled up baby n went to load her into the car, my husband (who does BJJ n is very strong) said “damn! Why is this thing so heavy?… I wish we’d brought the Pipa”. Literally each time we had to carry her in the car seat he kept grunting and saying “I really miss the Pipa”.

Thread: "Are “luxury” strollers actually worth it?"

We bought our Bugaboo Fox 5 “barely used” on GoodBuyGear for like half price and it came like new and has been soooooo easy. Not too heavy, one handed fold, drives reallyyyyyyy smooth (even with a huge bag of bird seed from Sam’s club underneath, so we learned the other day), has a pretty large basket (I can grocery shop with it, and evidently haul the bird seed out of Sam’s club with it lol), works easily with our Nuna Pipa car seat, the bassinet is rated for overnight sleep (not all stroller bassinets are)…it’s been great. It was a wonderful find, and I would highly recommend searching for one second hand but still in great condition.

Thread: "First time mom- travel system recommendations?"

This is the way to go. Also, I’ve seen that the aria positions the baby in an uncomfortable way. Nuna pipa with uppababy stroller all the way

Thread: "Uppababy Cruz V3 anyone?!"

Interesting! Yeah she even made a comment about how Nuna and Uppababy don't even compare to each other (meaning Nuna was far superior). And I said well thats not what users say... and the difference in feel was pretty noticable. Nuna is known for terrible customer service too. Now, I DO want the Nuna pipa car seat. I was really excited about the UB Aria, but it is so short in person and my husband is 6'3". It also has a pretty acute angle at the hips so a baby would be folded and it looked so uncomfortable. I wanted to do the lighter Nuna carseat (Aire Rx), but it's $100 more and if you compare the weight to the Pipa with the canopy and padding in it, it's only 0.2 pounds different. So we will do the Pipa carseat with the UB Cruz stroller!

Thread: "Best lightweight baby strollers for NYC?"

We got the Joolz Aer+! We really love it. So lightweight, easy to maneuver and fold in seconds. We got the car seat adapter attachments and a compatible Nuna Pipa car seat, which has been our primary seat so far since our little one is still very small. We also got the flat bassinet attachment (second hand) which was great when he was super small and didn’t care to look around much yet. The only 2 downsides (which other lightweight strollers probably also suffer from) are the wheels aren’t large so if you’re in rough terrain like a bumpy path or park grass, you can’t move as effortlessly. Also the bottom basket could stand to be a little larger, but we make it work! I bought the Joolz Aer+ during a really good Black Friday deal. No regrets, it’s working out great for us!