Mockingbird - Single-to-Double Stroller 2.0

I have a toddler and another due in June. I just got the mockingbird that sits 2 and I love it.

I walked them around buy buy baby. I thought it wouldn’t matter but one I kept kicking the axle, another didn’t turn as well. I got mid range one, the top line models didn’t seem better for the price when I walked them around. And for my second a mockingbird to be able to convert to double (gets heavy quick when it is double though, would need 2 young kids I think). 

I wish I had gotten the mockingbird from the beginning. I didn’t even think of getting a convertible one this first time. Still currently using the mockingbird as a single as number 2 is still on the way, and I love it.

Graco has one that the seat itself becomes the bassinet. We had no issues with that one, graco modes nest. We only switched to mockingbird because we needed a stroller than can convert to a double.

We had a Mockingbird double and I ended up selling it because it was horrible on bumpy sidewalks or any not flat surfaces, and we live in a hilly area. I’ve heard the same about Vistas and any other front to back doubles. I love them in theory since you can convert from one to two kids, but the weight distribution makes them very unwieldy, plus they’re huge and heavy for storage. What we have landed on is a wagon for keeping in the garage and using around the neighborhood or for bigger outings/rougher terrains, and a cheap double umbrella stroller in the car for quick outings and for traveling. There are some wagons that allow for infant carseat connections. Double jogging strollers are great but check dimensions—double bob would not fit in my trunk.

Yes! Loved it for my first. It handled beautifully with one kiddo and loved the big storage basket, nice aesthetic, and premium features. But as a double I felt like it would tip over every time I had to walk on a sloped surface and it was a pain to get over uneven sidewalks. I could see it being great if you live in a very flat new development area or if you mainly use it in indoor spaces like stores.

We brought the mockingbird when our twins were 6 months and gate checked it. We also got car seat bags

I got a free baby city jogger double and love it! Just the seats are thrashed so I’m using our mocking bird for now! Both are so nice

If I had to start over, I would choose the even Flo dual shift, and a mocking bird that can convert to a double. I was one and done when we had my daughter, so I got the Doona and I love it but the even Flo seems easier as you can take the wheels off and click it in to a stroller!!!

I love my mockingbird and joovy qool

It can but don’t expect it. We got a mockingbird convertible stroller from a second hand store and ended up selling it for more than we paid when we upgraded to a side-by-side, but there’s no way we could sell this one even close to what we paid despite it being in good condition still.

We also have the mockingbird single to double! We didn’t do a removable car seat, just a permanent fixture in our car, so I don’t have personal experience with the car seat attachment. We had the bassinet attachment and it has been amazing! Now that we’re in the toddler seat, I can fold the stroller one-handed while holding the baby and get it into the trunk of my SUV! It’s been wonderful! Plus the bassinet top was a great mobile napping spot in the early days.

I know right?! Most of our things were middle of the road items and are great! I don't need a $400 sock for my baby to wear that doesn't work half the time. I will say though that when I had my second (also a very close age gap) we did splurge on the mockingbird single to double stroller since older baby still loves riding in his stroller. Expensive but so, so with it for us. It is by far the most expensive baby item we got.

So, a couple things— First of all, a single stroller plus baby wearing may be easier sometimes. I’d recommend both the stroller and the baby wearing device be doable for either the newborn or the toddler because you might want the option to do either version. For a double, I’m going to offer a counterpoint. A lot of people are complaining about tandem but we use ours for something pretty specific which is neighborhood walks including walking to daycare. We are always on sidewalks and you have to pay attention to bumps or whatever but I think that’s true of a lot of options. My wife almost accidentally tipped our wagon yesterday going around a bend so other styles aren’t a guarantee of not-tippiness. Anyway, I think the advantage to tandem is that they convert between two and one seat, right? I haven’t seen a side by side model that does that. So we like our Mockingbird and the fact you can rearrange the seats however you want— we currently like doing tandem with the kids facing each other, toddler facing forward at the top so he can see baby and the view, and baby facing backwards in the lower position so she can see both mom and brother. Meanwhile it’s very fast to switch into a single stroller if we only have one kid or are wearing one kid. My main quibble is that it is a little bulky as a double stroller in terms of folding, we really have to take everything apart to fit it in the Prius trunk. The main thing that’s annoying is that we have to take off the plastic pieces converting it to a double, but we don’t have an obvious place to store them while keeping them attached to the stroller which would be my preference. It’s not an issue with our SUV trunk though.

When we have our mockingbird set up as a double we call it our Seussical the musical stroller; it reminds us of some of the bicycles in one fish two fish for instance.