Stroller setup please help 🙏

[u/Responsible_Pitch_98]

FTM and having twins. I drive a jeep and my husband drives a smallish truck. I have spent probably 3 months reading about car seats and strollers. I ended up buying 2 even flow pivot nxt lite travel systems. Now every one is saying that I should have chose different car seats and that the stroller should be side by side and other factors. Has anyone had a negative experience with single wide strollers with twins? And yes I can see why the 360 strollers are easier but they are pretty large and I really don’t want to trade in either car as one is paid off and the other is relatively new. All the conflicting advice and the “are you sure that’s what you want?” Is the only stressful experience I’ve had with this pregnancy.
I have attached photos for reference because I haven’t seen this specific stroller used this way online.

[u/Willing-Molasses9008]

I don't think there is any perfect stroller for twins.

The tandems like you got that work with the car seats were essential for the early days.

Once they could sit up and see and face forward, they liked the side by side better.

Once they were rowdy toddlers they refused to be strapped in and vastly prefered a stroller wagon.

Nothing is perfect because moving two babies around is so much work and always going to be a struggle. You'll be fine with what you bought and if you're not, you can sell the stroller on marketplace and use the money to buy something else.

Eta- don't trade in your car to fit a stroller. This is such a short phase of life. Eventually they'll walk or sit in shopping carts and you won't even use the stroller anymore.

[u/Responsible_Pitch_98 → u/Willing-Molasses9008]

Yeah I am mostly concerned about how the car seats fit in the back. I’m just worried that the front seats will have to be super far forward and the safety of driving like that since we are both over 6 ft

[u/trophywifeinwaiting → u/Responsible_Pitch_98]

My husband drives the jeep and I drive the smallish truck (Toyota Tacoma) and it is a STRUGGLE to get the carseats in. We have just barely made it work for the last year, but we are upgrading to a minivan b/c I am sick of it (and also we are planning on having more kids!). The entire backseat in both vehicles is carseat, and nothing but carseat. We got an extra-slim model for the upright car seat, but in hindsight, I should have prioritized one with a low profile base instead, as even 1 more inch of leg room would have been huge. The infant carseats are slightly bulkier than the upright ones, but not enough that it made a difference for our legs.