High Chair - buying help

bulktrans

Hi there,

I am wondering if someone could please advice on buying a high chair for my 6 month old daughter, I did some research and there are loads of them ..

Thanks,

Phoenix7

We have a Cosatto Noodle, very sturdy and good quality. Cosatto also do a four-year warranty on all products for good peace of mind in case it breaks.

However, if I was doing it all again I'd buy the £12 IKEA Antilop high chair, with the tray and inflatable insert if required (inflatable insert gives the child more support if they can't quite sit straight on their own yet). Easy to clean, decent sized tray and fab value for money.

jemski1981

The ikea one is very good value. Mothercare do a similar one for £19.99 which comes in different colours which are lovely.

We got a bargain from Smyths toys. We'd seen the Bright Stars ingenuity high chair for £60 in Mothercare yet paid £30 in Smyths. It folds up has a tray that has a removable tray for easy cleaning and also swings out so you can remove your baby easily. It's a lot bigger than the ikea one so if space isn't a problem it's ideal. We love it
Happy hunting

aliama

Without a doubt in my opinion, the Ikea Antilop is one of the best you can get (especially when you take cost into account).

bulktrans

Phoenix7 wrote: »

We have a Cosatto Noodle, very sturdy and good quality. Cosatto also do a four-year warranty on all products for good peace of mind in case it breaks.

However, if I was doing it all again I'd buy the £12 IKEA Antilop high chair, with the tray and inflatable insert if required (inflatable insert gives the child more support if they can't quite sit straight on their own yet). Easy to clean, decent sized tray and fab value for money.

Thanks very helpful will go for the IKEA one .. but the inflatable insert is already included or have to purchase as extra? thnx

bulktrans

by the time I add up the costs for ikea high chair, tray and insert it's £22 odd .. I could get the following Red kite one for £27 and I have some vouchers that I could use ..

any thoughts if this will be ok? thanks

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Kite-Baby-Highchair-Months/dp/B008QXOAGI/ref=sr_1_9?s=baby&ie=UTF8&qid=1384265678&sr=1-9&keywords=high+chairs+from+6+months

dizziblonde

Go for one with as few crevices and fiddly bits for food to get stuck in as you can get away with. We had to go for a very supportive one because of our eldest being premature and not able to sit without support at weaning time (not getting into the guidelines for weaning prem babies before anyone starts) and it's a pain in the backside when it comes to keeping it clean as food gets caught all over the place... not what I would have picked if life had gone to nice neat full-term plan but it's something it's not worth replacing now for the time we'll be using it.

Also worth considering getting a booster cushion thing to convert a normal dining chair into something higher and more escape proof when they get a little bit bigger... plus much more portable for going to stay at grandma's or whatever (they're under the £20 mark new - or seem to pop up second hand for under a tenner fairly often) - our eldest now uses that, coupled with one of those wipe clean tablecloths on the dining table at 18 months so her little sister can have the highchair and in the next few months I plan on getting another of those and getting rid of the damned highchair for good!

http://www.mothercare.com/Baby-Polar-Gear-On-The-Go-Booster-Seat--Polkadots/474259,default,pd.html is the booster seat we've got - but they're all much of a muchness on that front unless you have really oddly designed dining chairs.

aliama

bulktrans wrote: »

by the time I add up the costs for ikea high chair, tray and insert it's £22 odd .. I could get the following Red kite one for £27 and I have some vouchers that I could use ..

any thoughts if this will be ok? thanks

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Kite-Baby-Highchair-Months/dp/B008QXOAGI/ref=sr_1_9?s=baby&ie=UTF8&qid=1384265678&sr=1-9&keywords=high+chairs+from+6+months

Never bothered with the insert with the Antilop, as I never found I needed it either -- actually didn't know there was one. We originally had a high chair very like the one in the link, and found my daughter was always slumped back in it so food would always fall down onto her lap.

We just bought the Antilop chair and the tray, which at the time came to around £14 total, although the prices might have changed since then.

If you can get to an Ikea, they use the Antilop in their cafe area (without the insert), so you can try it out and see if it works for your daughter. We've found lots of other places use the Antilop as well.

Lilium

Definitely the Ikea one. I had a Fisher Price highchair with my first. Huge, even when folded. Very supportive but food got stuck everywhere would always take ages to clean.

My mum bought one for when we were at her house, it sloped backwards like the red kite one...my son found it hard to sit in it for quite a while, always slouched back, we had to prop him forwards with folded tea towels.

I got rid of the Fisher Price one and bought the Ikea one when my youngest was born. Didn't both with the insert, folded a tea towel and put it behind his back to help him at first. It was so much easier to clean, I wish I'd had it with my first.

Air_Cooled_75

Another vote for the Antilop, stores very easily and LO always looked happy in his. I popped a small cushion behind him, didn't even know you could get an insert!

chanie

I also vote for the ikea one.