Which High Chair?

crewe

Hi

We are new parents looking to buy a high chair for our baby girl. There are so many different types, can anyone recommend one. Also the best place to buy one.

Thanks
Crewe

FranDan

The one main thing I would look for in a highchair is that it's easy to clean! Think simplicity. Babies do tend to tuck food down the sides of them and rub it into anything within reach!

The wooden Stokke Tripp Trapp is simple and stylish and adjusts as the child grows. There are a few cheaper variants of this idea, such as Baby Dan - although a few of these don't have attachable trays and are designed just to sit at a table so as baby feels included in the family meal.

There is a reasonable range at http://www.kiddicare.com/icat/highchairsstandard
They tend to be very reasonable priced here too.

Personally I've had a second hand highchair for the past 7yrs, my thrid child is still using it. It's a nightmare to keep clean and is on it's last legs... can't justify a new one being the third and final child! But I also bought a plastic booster seat that straps to a dining chiar which I've found extremely useful. It's not bulky to store, travels easyily and I've taken it apart in stuck it thru the dishwasher on many occasions:o .

HTH

Jay-Jay_4

Hi,

I had a Tripp Trapp for my eldest daughter and it was great as long as you're sitting at the table for every meal, as it doesn't have a tray. She still sits on it 5 years on (at her Dads house) as it adjusts to make a normal chair. The seat height is completely adjustable and they can use it until they're grown up.

A relative has bought us a Mamas & Papas highchair which is nice, easy to clean, comfy etc but we've nowhere to put it and it's only been used about 5 times.

Like FranDan mentioned, the plastic booster seats are brilliant. My youngest daughter uses her for practically every meal. We're very limited for space and the booster seat has little legs on it (a couple of inches high), I sit on the living room floor with her in her booster seat and that's how she eats the majority of her meals. We take it to granny's house when we go and when it's not being used it gets chucked down the side of the setee.

Aren't I naughty for not sitting at the table?

Counting_Pennies_2

If you have space to keep it up all the time I would recommend a highchair that goes to various heights and can recline. That way it will suit for all occasions. Feeding no matter where you sit at whatever height and I find the reclining position still works for my son who is 13 months old.

I have the M&P one but the other brands are just as good (if not better!) look on kiddicare and get the cheapest one of the type you want, they all do much the same job.

Spendless

Think about size of your kitchen or dining room and where you'd keep it when not in use too.

We only had a kitchen when son was born and no available space to keep one out all the time, so I bought one that could be folded flat and left behind door when not in use.

crewe

Thanks for all the good advice, lots of good tips, I will let you know which one we go for.

PS how do I put pictures on here, I want to take a pic of our Daughter in her new chair (when we buy it) and post it here.



Crewe

Jay-Jay_4

crewe wrote:

PS how do I put pictures on here, I want to take a pic of our Daughter in her new chair (when we buy it) and post it here.

Download the pics to your PC then upload them onto www.tinypic.com. Copy the url then come back here, click reply on here, click the button above that looks like a yellow square with two grey mountains and paste the URL into the box.

crewe

Thanks, testing picture

Savvy_Sue

Also buy a cheap plastic tablecloth to put on the floor under the highchair unless your floor is really easy to keep clean.

No substitute for a highchair, but me and my friend both had cloth things which fitted over the back of a chair, child sat on it and then you tied them to the chair. They were brilliant for taking out and about when the child was older: could tie them to a normal chair, or to a chair with a booster seat on it.

Jay-Jay_4

crewe wrote:

http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=4vl6ix

Thanks, testing picture

delete the http:// from the box before you paste in your URL




is this your baby? She's a cutie pie

Lemoncurd

It does depend a lot on your life style, the space you have and where you are going to use it.

We bought the Mamas and Papas Prima Pappa because it had good reviews and because of all the features it had - reclining seat with several height positions and double layer tray. I wish we'd got a simple wooden one like the Tripp Trapp instead. We never used the recline feature, only had it at a different height setting a couple of times and abandoned the tray in favour of having family meals at the table as this is supposed to be better for babies development. The chair is big so gets in the way and the padded seat and all the nooks and cranies made it almost impossible to clean. The straw that broke the camels back was when our 21 month old had a couple of accidents when we started toilet training. You have to take it all apart to clean inside so we've abandoned it. We were going to get a new simple wooden one but she's quite happy sitting on a cushion on a dining chair now.

The only problem with the simpler chairs is that they are often not suitable for a very young baby. We're expecting number 2 so we're going to keep the chair we've got until baby is past 6 months and then probably get a simpler one.