Do I need a proper highchair or can I get away with a compact booster one?

alison6692

Hiya x

I am looking for some advice - Its time to think about highchairs for little Daisy and I was thinking of just getting of getting a booster style like THIS.
Do you think that it is worth investing a standard style high chair or would a booster style seat one do the same job?

Thanks

Alison x

Janepig

Get an Ikea Antilop highchair. I got one for DS after having a really expensive one bought for me when I had DD which was a bulky, unhygenic nightmare. The Antilop only costs about twelve pounds and you can also buy a tray to add to it, although we didn't bother because it came right up to the table (unlike the other one). All in all a fantastic bargain, so easy to clean, and just about the best baby product I ever bought.

Jxx

Js_Other_Half

Ikea do a fab highchair for £12, plus another £3 for the tray - they're really easy to clean.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00069725

I did think about the booster seat, but to be honest, you need the child quite high up so you can feed them initially?

Rachie_B

the reclining,foldable booster one is good ,my niece has it.good if short on space and for travelling too

personally i liked the big highchairs ( had a M&P and a chicco one) with recline for early weaning.baby would also sleep in it sometimes lol
very hardwearing and can be scrubbed / hosed down if mucky

they last for a few children too,mine went onto my nephew and niece!

i guess it depends how much you want to spend ? and how much room you have ?

RustyFlange

The booster seat you picture is perfectly fine for a highchair providing you have a chair to put it on. We use one now for my daughter, she has been using it since she was 6 months old, I also have a highchair which never gets used and still use her bouncy chair for the occasional meal. I only ever had one of those booster chairs for my son and to be honest I think I would only ever buy one of them if I was to have any more. Highchairs can be a pain ... plus most of them are so big and clumpy now not to mention expensive!

RustyFlange

Js_Other_Half wrote: »

Ikea do a fab highchair for £12, plus another £3 for the tray - they're really easy to clean.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00069725

I did think about the booster seat, but to be honest, you need the child quite high up so you can feed them initially?

Why do they need to be high up? if they are high up then it is a struggle to feed them without you standing up, at least with a booster seat they are at a similar height to you which makes feeding a whole lot easier. Of course people have different opinions but the above is mine, and having used both highchair and booster then booster is the best for me and my baby.

Oh and the booster is easy enough to pack up to take away with you when visiting and also easy to clean/scrub/bleach/disinfect.

Janepig

RustyFlange wrote: »

Why do they need to be high up? if they are high up then it is a struggle to feed them without you standing up, at least with a booster seat they are at a similar height to you which makes feeding a whole lot easier. Of course people have different opinions but the above is mine, and having used both highchair and booster then booster is the best for me and my baby.

Oh and the booster is easy enough to pack up to take away with you when visiting and also easy to clean/scrub/bleach/disinfect.

I don't understand what you mean. With the Antilop baby is no higher than if they're on a booster seat attached to an adult seat. As I said in my first post I didn't bother with a tray because it's exactly the right height for my kitchen table so I used to sit at the table next to DS to feed him. I didn't have to stand up. And it wasn't for long anyway because DS being Mr Independant insisted on feeding himself from a very young age.

Jx

alison6692

Thanks for everyones replies. I think what we will do is get the booster style one and if that doesn't work for us then I will buy that IKEA one which is fab value.

Thanks so much for the replies.

Alison x

Savvy_Sue

My friend had a booster seat, cheap'n'cheerful, and it was sort of OK but I'd say you do need one with decent 'wings' to it or any wriggling baby will be head-first on the floor. It saved her having two high chairs, which as she had a lot of visitors (or was that a lot of visits from me?) was useful.

RustyFlange

Janepig wrote: »

I don't understand what you mean. With the Antilop baby is no higher than if they're on a booster seat attached to an adult seat. As I said in my first post I didn't bother with a tray because it's exactly the right height for my kitchen table so I used to sit at the table next to DS to feed him. I didn't have to stand up. And it wasn't for long anyway because DS being Mr Independant insisted on feeding himself from a very young age.

Jx

Sory I quoted a different post where someone said the baby needed to be higher up. A lot of the cheaper highchairs on the market are a lot higher than the ikea ones. We used an ikea one when visiting a local garden centre, and also the trolleys they had were the smaller ones (rather than deep) but they had the actual seat off the ikea highchair as the baby seat in a trolley, I was impressed but personally I have everything I needed with both of mine in the booster seat. As I said it is all down to personal preference. With my son I also removed the tray and straps and he continued to use the booster seat for a good couple of years to keep him at the right hight for the table.

Spendless

If I'd known about/they'd made booster highchairs when I had eldest I might have gone for one as we were very limited for space. I had a folding highchair for this reason. With a bigger house, I had a huge chunky one for my youngest. It had a pocket at back to keep bibs in and had been bought at a yard sale in Canada for when we visited and later was fetched over here for us.:eek:

Once dd outgrew this, my mil found a wooden highchair at a flea market. It must have been the predecessor of the Ikea one cos it still had the ikea label on it. When sat at it, dd was the right height for sitting at the table and she stopped in this seat until earlier this year (she's now 5), when she'd grown enough to sit on a proper chair. The wooden ikea chair, still in good condition, has now gone to a relative.