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When we found out I was pregnant, my thoughtful and thrifty sister quickly sent me an updated copy of Baby Bargains.  For those of you unfamiliar with this tome, it is a thorough and helpful review of all the baby products on the market.  And I mean all of them.  It can be a bit overwhelming for someone new to the baby world, perhaps, ahem, someone like me who was confused when the nurse guiding the hospital at the hospital kept referring to “coaches.”  I was really worried I didn’t have one until my husband pointed out that he, actually, would be the coach.  Back to Baby Bargains.

“Just start with one chapter,” my sister told me.  ”Like strollers.”

But the stroller chapter is fifty pages!  Ay yi yi.  Recently, NYT writer Lynn Hall’s wrote an interesting article in Salon about increasing stroller hostility in Brooklyn. Man!  I can’t even pick out a stroller and now I have to worry about anti-stroller sentiment? Hopefully, the Queen City will be a friendlier place when the baby and I hit the streets in our sweet ride …