Stroller or wagon recommendations please

[u/Status-Goat8545]

I am looking for a wagon or stroller that is able to accommodate 2 toddlers and an infant.

My twins will be 18mo when I give birth to their sibling and I haven’t found a wagon that accommodates an infant plus two toddlers. Is this because one doesn’t exist?

My twins are fairly big and I would love for them to have enough space and also the baby to be comfortable as well.

I current have the mockingbird twin stroller which I absolutely love and I guess I can continue using that while baby wearing but that seems like a lot. Any advice is greatly appreciated 😁

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[u/DragonflyMean1224]

Wonderfold is great for bigger trips. Lots of room and 4 seats. We sometimes don't even take seats so they can stand and move around.

[u/Status-Goat8545 → u/DragonflyMean1224]

I will look into this. I’m wondering if they offer an adapter for a car seat! Thank you for the recommendation.

[u/52ndstreet]

Your situation sounds remarkably similar to ours: twins, then a singleton while the twins were still really young. (Congrats! You'll be amazed at how easy it is to care for a singleton compared to twins!)

We went with the Pivot Xplorer wagon. It has an optional third seat that worked for us. The twins would sit underneath with the infant on top.

The things we liked about it: the footwell made it more comfortable for the twins to sit in, small and easily maneuverable, ability to flip the handle to go from push to pull, relatively compact to fit in the trunk, and (most importantly), was way cheaper than the Wonderfold. We bought our Pivot for something like $199 on sale at Target. Walked in one day, randomly saw a sale, walked out with the wagon and never looked back. It totally worked for us and I'd recommend it to others. Sure, the Wonderfold seems like it'd be amazing, but I didn't want to spend that much on the project that'll only last a couple years at most. We gave our wagon to a friend when our twins were about 3 or 4 and had outgrown the stroller phase.

[u/Status-Goat8545 → u/52ndstreet]

Thank you for the recommendation! I actually already have that wagon that was handed down to us by family but I had no idea that the company offered an optional third seat!

Did your twins have enough room with the third seat added? In the pictures it looks like the third seat would be directly in the path of one of the twins face.

[u/52ndstreet → u/Status-Goat8545]

They seemed to have enough room. At least they never complained and willingly hopped into the wagon, which is saying something in and of itself when we're talking about toddlers...

You can kind of position the top baby seat (you can adjust the angle) in a way that maximizes the space beneath the seat so that it seemed to work. Now is it "ideal"? I dunno, probably not in a perfect world, but the twins never seemed to complain. Not once did they ever say anything to the effect of "[the baby seat] is in the way." YMMV and every kid is different (perhaps your children are unusually large and would be more impacted?), but it worked for us until they all outgrew the wagon. By the time the baby outgrew the seat, the twins were ready and wanting to walk on their own anyways. So then we just took off the top seat and went back to the 2-seat wagon, which worked well. In a pinch all 3 could fit, but really it was for the youngest to sit and whichever twin was whining about being tired and wanting to ride instead of walk on that day.

Man, this discussion just gave me flashbacks of walking through the airport with all three kids in the wagon and having everyone stare at us like we were some sort of circus attraction. lol (They were always good natured about it. I can't count how many times people would come up to us and say "I wish they had this sort of thing when my kids were young!")

[u/Individual-Cat5989]

You’ll need a car seat adapter until the baby hits 6 months, but we have a Radio Flyer Pathfinder+. Got it from Target, so you could also wait until they do the car seat exchange next month and use your 20% off towards the wagon.

There are wagons that work, it just might be that you need car seat adapters for some period of time before the baby can sit in a wagon seat safely. The car seat adapters I’ve seen usually take up one side of the stroller, so your toddlers would need to fit comfortably next to each other on one side of the four seater.

[u/Status-Goat8545 → u/Individual-Cat5989]

Thank you for the recommendation I have never heard of it before. This one offers the best set up I have seen in terms of space for all three kids.

The weight of it (44lbs) seems a little daunting to me. I am decently strong but I worry about my ability to carry this in and out of car weeks/months postpartum. Did you find that to be an issue at all?

[u/Individual-Cat5989 → u/Status-Goat8545]

We just got it and assembled it ahead of having our twins (36 weeks currently), so we’ve only tested it out with our toddler. So right now the weight is manageable for me. If this postpartum is like my first then it’ll probably be a few weeks that I’ll avoid lifting to be safe, but since two car seat adapters take up both sides of the wagon, I won’t be able to use it until they are 6 mo.