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Product Spotlight: High Chairs/Feeding Gear

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in April 2023 Moms
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What high chairs have you used?:
Likes/dislikes?:
What other feeding gear would you recommend?:

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Re: Product Spotlight: High Chairs/Feeding Gear

  • nsk489nsk489 member
    edited November 2022
    What high chairs have you used?: Stokke Tripp Trapp is our main high chair. Have also used a little camping type booster chair while on vacation, and the typical looking high chairs while visiting family
    Likes/dislikes?: I LOVE the Stokke---it is 100% worth the money IMO (but there apparently is an IKEA one that is similar for much cheaper). It is easy to clean which was my main thing---most high chairs are fabric and get really gross/dirty. Since this is wood it wipes up easily. Also it doesn't have as much of a recline as most other high chairs--every time my son sat in a different high chair, he would kind of slouch down and slide in it, and I was always afraid he would choke. Cons--I felt like the straps were kind of difficult to buckle (and even harder to adjust) so eventually we just stopped using them. Also a lot of the suction-type bowls/plates don't work well on the tray
    What other feeding gear would you recommend?: you can never have enough bibs 😆 I like the silicone pouch type ones, although they didn't work great when we first started solids bc they seemed a bit big and bulky. If you want to do BLW (we did a combo of purees and BLW) I suggest following Solid Starts on Instagram (they also have an app). Helpful for seeing what size to cut food at certain ages
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  • etnyahetnyah member
    edited November 2022
    S+TMs:
    What high chairs have you used?: Easiest product spotlight ever! Stokke Tripp Trapp is the only chair I ever considered and the one we got. It’s a Norwegian chair and I was so happy to realize it’s internationally sold (and popular), I had it when I was a kid too and it was the only baby product I knew I wanted when I found out I was pregnant.

    Likes/dislikes?: I love everything about it except the price. It’s costly, but sturdy and grows with baby. With the adjustable seat and leg rest, it’ll last for as long as your kid wants it to, it even fits adults on the lowest seat setting. I used mine until I was about 7. Hilariously, my son loved it as a baby but then hated it as a toddler, So now he sits on a regular chair. Which is fine, because now we don’t have to buy a second one for baby!

    Tripp Trapp chairs are also the nr 1 recommended chair by pretty much every feeding therapist, that’s a solid rec.

    The chair comes with all kinds of accessories, if you buy them all it’ll be extremely pricey and I don’t think they’re worth it imo. The only thing I bought was the baby harness for safety. There’s also a cushion, a tray and a baby seat for newborn until they can use the actual seat, but the cushion just gets dirty, I prefer having baby by the table over using a tray, and there are other places a newborn can be placed.

    What other feeding gear would you recommend?: Silicone bibs with a pocket! Easy to clean and catches a lot of stuff baby drops. My son ate mostly out of the pocket, ha. Also, a squeezable straw bottle for transitioning from bottles, if you want to skip the sippy cups (which our speech therapist said is smart). Squeezing makes it easier to catch on to how to use a straw.
    DS born 2/18/2019
    DD born 4/1/2023
    Baby #3 EDD 11/21/2024
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  • nsk489nsk489 member
    @etnyah oh yes I forgot about cups!! The Honey Bear cup was the only way I could get my son to figure out how to use a straw
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  • etnyahetnyah member
    @nsk489 same! It took my son two tries and he had the hang of it, never went back to bottle afterwards! 
    DS born 2/18/2019
    DD born 4/1/2023
    Baby #3 EDD 11/21/2024
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  • scaredunpreparedscaredunprepared member
    I don't know why I am in quote mode and I don't know how to get out!  Sorry!

    What high chairs have you used?:  we have thr Gracco 3 in 1 and I hate it.  Like @nsk489 said, it doesn't sit upright enough and as an OT I am really peeved that positioning is so poor for a chair meant for feeding!  We don't have it in the budget to get a new chair, but I'm keeping my eye out on buy nothing.   I have heard great things about the Tripp Trapp and have used the idea antelop at my BIL's family cabin and the positioning is much better.

    Likes/dislikes?:  see above

    What other feeding gear would you recommend?:  Silicone bibs as others have said.  My kids got the hang of straw cups pretty quick, but my daughter did use a trainer first.  I think it was this one: 
    Nuby 3 Stage Tritan Wide Neck Grow with Me No-Spill Bottle to Cup, Blue, 8 Oz https://a.co/d/6V2A3dw
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  • etnyahetnyah member
    @iiirene ohhh yes to the drop cloth, especially if your dining area is carpeted or you have a rug! It gets messy. Real messy. 
    DS born 2/18/2019
    DD born 4/1/2023
    Baby #3 EDD 11/21/2024
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  • shoogapoffshoogapoff member
    @nsk489 100% agree with Solid Starts as an amazing BLW account. I love their app too! We did total BLW, and really loved it. But I couldn't have done it without that account. 
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