Talk to me about high chairs

MrsRebecca · August 2009

What are you registering for and why?

2nd+ time moms I'd love to hear the pros and cons of yours since you've actually used them!

MrsRebecca · August 2009

I was thinking about that, but then it takes up a chair. We frequently use all of our dining chairs.

My parents have one of those for their house and it works great!

LittleMamaB · August 2009

I'm really easy to please when it comes to high chairs. As long as it's easy to clean and the tray is big enough, I like it. I didn't worry about toy attached or anything like that...I can always give them toys to play with.

Honestly, I couldn't even tell you the name or brand of ours. LOL. I'll see if I can find it.

kpmt1006 · August 2009

we also have a fisher price chair that straps to a seat (not the one mentioned above). we had absolutely no room for a separate high chair and this is perfect!!!! we also have a fp booster for when we go to other peoples' homes.

katie

LittleMamaB · August 2009

Here, I found it...

ETA: I'm not sure why it's labeled as "toddler", but my youngest has been using it since he started solids at six months old.

MrsRebecca · August 2009

LittleMamaB:
Here, I found it...

ETA: I'm not sure why it's labeled as "toddler", but my youngest has been using it since he started solids at six months old.

Cute, but DH would murder me if I came home with Disney baby gear

LittleMamaB · August 2009

LOL...I can understand that. My aunt gave us ours. And I couldn't turn down free.

amy5162 · August 2009

I registered for a chair that sits on a regular chair and can also convert to a toddler chair.

Desert*Flower · August 2009

The Fisher Price Space Saver! It is great - you strap it to your dining room chair, it is padded, and reclines. I like that it doesn't take up extra space.

megs042107 · August 2009

We have a FP Space Saver and love it. ?Right now we live in a townhouse and have limited kitchen space, so it works for us. ?But what I really love about it is that it travels well. ?It's easy to pack in the car when we visit family out of town. ?It's easy to clean and the tray is dishwasher safe. ?The seat and cover wipe off very easily. ?And the entire thing is extremely lightweight.

halloweenmom06 · August 2009

I wish I asked this question before I had my DD. I went through 4, yes 4 high chairs. The first one was so cute. Dumb a$$ me did not look at the washing instructions on the seat and yes, it was dry clean only, WTF!?! One serving of spaghetti-o's and it was ruined.

Chair number two was the wooden one from Ikea that you pull up to the table. Well, the legs on this thing were so spread out that anytime someone tried to walk by they would trip.

Chair number three was the best. It was the $20 white plastic one from Ikea. It was incredibly easy to clean and was a dream to use.

I ended up buying the cushie booster when she turned two so she could join us at the table and we still use it today.

Good luck, I HIGHLY recommend a trip to good ol' Ikea...

Worcbride · August 2009

No high chair for DD--have a Fisher Price Spacesaver....love that thing! I can attach it to any chair (we actually put it on our kitchen island/feed her from there), move it all over the house (which was great once she became mobile and I wanted to take a shower...into the bathroom it went!) and it weighs next to nothing. Plus it doesnt take up all the room a high chair does

rdgove · August 2009

We registered for the Graco Blossom 4 in 1 seat. It goes from a baby high chair to a booster seat for a toddler. It has a dishwasher-safe tray, easy to clean, wipe off padding, and adjustable straps. It looks so comfy! It gets fantastic safety ratings and everyone on the BRU website gives it high marks.

kristalovesjared · August 2009

I'm a first time mom and my cousin just gave me the high chair she used with both of her kids... a travel high chair, so it just straps on to your regular kitchen chair. We don't have enough room for a high chair at our table area, so we are just planning on doing this too, unless for some reason it just really doesn't work for us. Hope that helps!

ccorneau · August 2009

rdgove:
We registered for the Graco Blossom 4 in 1 seat. It goes from a baby high chair to a booster seat for a toddler. It has a dishwasher-safe tray, easy to clean, wipe off padding, and adjustable straps. It looks so comfy! It gets fantastic safety ratings and everyone on the BRU website gives it high marks.

this is what we've registered for also!! very excited to get it!!!

flyer23 · August 2009

We have a Fisher Price Healthy Care full-size high chair and also the Healthy Care booster seat.

We've used the booster seat intermittently since about 5 months of age. She ate all her meals in it until we got the full-size high chair when she was maybe 7 months old. We then used it for eating out only for quite a while. We started using it full-time again (pulled up to the table, with no tray) when she was 18 months old.

So the full-size high chair was her main seat from about 7-18 months of age.

I do like the portability, flexibility, and long usefulness time of the booster seat. That said, I am VERY glad that we had the full-size high chair to use at home for that early period:

- The high chair's tray is much bigger. This made it hard for DD to drop food off (accidentally OR on purpose). In the booster seat, a lot of food ended up on the floor.

- If DD reached her food-covered hands over/behind her head in the high chair, food got all over the easily-washed vinyl cushion. If she did the same thing in the booster seat, food got all over my nice kitchen chairs.

- Even now, DD gets a lot of food on the seat of the chair itself. We always leave a towel down so that it doesn't get all over the actual seat, and we wash the towel every so often... but that makes it a little harder to clean than the high chair.

- Yes, the wide base on the high chair is a pain from a space perspective... but it also makes it virtually impossible to tip over. NOT SO with a booster seat on a normal chair. We've had some nervous moments with DD tilting the chair backwards when sitting in her booster seat...

If your budget allows, I recommend both! We got the high chair for $20 off craigslist, and the booster seat retails for $25, so it wasn't a huge investment, especially considering just how much you use these things!

jknallen · August 2009

We live in an apt and have limited space. We bought a highchair that folds flat. The legs collapse and then the part that the tray clips onto folds down flat as well. It was great. I highly recommend one like that. now that DS is 2 1/2 we have the fisher price booster seat on one of our chairs. We took that with us when we went to ppl's houses that didn't have a highchair and it was great. The only downside I found to using it all the time when having to feed DS when he was little was that it was lower than the highchair and that made it hard on your back (i have a bad back and im tall). I would recommend getting a collapsable highchair and then a booster for when they start feeding themselves.

qtiekiki · August 2009

We have the Boon Flair, and love it. Super easy to clean. We just pull the high chair up to our dining table.

We have the FP healthy care booster for when we eat out, which works great too. But I like having a real high chair at home.

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