Comments on: The highchair is in the way, again

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:29:54 +0000

Tripp Trapp all the way! It’s so smart, has no tray so your baby eats with you, and can be used as a regular adult chair. Multi-purpose and fits under the table. Plus, their Xplory stroller is pretty awesome and space-saving too.

http://www.stokkeusa.com/tripptrapphome.htm

http://www.stokkeusa.com/xploryhome.htm

By: Vina

Vina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:57:18 +0000

I second the Trip-Trapp vote, well worth the money. We bought after our girl grew out of the high chair which was enormous and ridiculous, we should have just had the Trip Trapp all along.

By: Kirstin

Kirstin — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:54:37 +0000

I just purchased the Fisher Price Healthy Care Booster as a 1 yr birthday gift since you all recommended it so highly. I just thought I would mention that when I inquired about it at the baby store, I was told that the blue and green model has been discontinued and will be replaced by a red and yellow model. The only difference I can see it that the old model comes with a removable tray that goes in the dishwasher. I was able to get a hold of the old model at a department store because the extra tray seemed nice.

By: Dena

Dena — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:01:34 +0000

My favorite high chair option (which we unfortunately didn’t discover until our second child) is the Me Too Chair. It’s the type of seat that just hooks onto your table. I love it since it doesn’t take up much space, folds flat, easy to travel with, great at restaurants, easy to clean, not expensive, easy to install, and brings the baby/child closer to the table. It’s awesome. You can find them at Amazon and other places too. It’s good to up to 40 lbs. Even though my kids are well past high chair age, I’ve kept our seat since it’s small enough to fit in a drawer in our kitchen and is handy to have with visiting cousins and other small visitors.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:42:33 +0000

Link to In the Pocket Baby

http://www.scandinaviandesignc.....=baby+seat

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:36:05 +0000

I “third” the suggestion for the Antilop from IKEA. It is simple, cheap, lightweight, stable, and easy-to-clean. Also, if you need to keep it for later children, the legs come off for easy storage. IKEA also sells a tray for the Antilop.

If you eat where there are no high chairs (friends’ houses, restaurants whose high chairs always seem to be broken or in use by others), the In the Pocket Baby “contraption” from the Scandinavian Design Center (http://www.scandinaviandesignc.....=baby+seat) is useful.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:55:25 +0000

We use the MeToo chair by Phil and Ted.

http://mightyjunior.com/archiv.....etoo-chair

We like it because it allows our 10-month old daughter to eat at the table with us. It has an industrial look to it and takes up no floor space, due to its clip on design. We also love that it folds completely flat (unlike many other hook on seats) and therefore we take it with us any time we go out to eat or visit friends.

By: dorothy

dorothy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:08:30 +0000

Ikea Antilop at $15, followed by the Stokke Tripp Trapp (more than 10x more expensive, but such a good chair) worked great for us. The Antilop goes in the dishwasher (pop off the legs and straps)!

A grandmother bought us the Me Too! clip on as well, which was handy for trips and is still handy when people come over, but compared to the others, it’s tough to clean.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:52:39 +0000

@bms
We did the same thing. We got a lot of flack for not putting enough “stuff” on our registry. We had to buy very little.

For those expecting, look into the Graco Snugride system. The car seat snaps into the stroller and a small, folding swing frame. Had we known about the swing frame earlier, we could have saved ourselves a lot of space.

By: Bek

Bek — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:02:09 +0000

We just added one of these… We love it- not just for our home but because it’s the only thing that fits on my mother’s weird (yet lovely) dining chairs….Strap-on boosters never worked with those…

http://www.kaboost.com/

By: bms2000

bms2000 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:15:10 +0000

We never had a high chair for either kid. I found boosters with trays that went on the dining chairs at yard sales. I think I paid a grand total of $5 each. When they no longer needed the tray, they just used it as a booster. Prior to that, we fed them in the bouncy seat.

There are a lot of ‘necessities’ for babies that are just clutter in disguise. We erred on the side of not buying/asking for things, and there was almost nothing that we found we had to run out and get.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:49:17 +0000

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....tterer-20/

We had a painfully clunky high chair which we used to trip over in our small kitchen. By the time my youngest was 10 months, it was gone and we switched to this travel seat we could strap on a kitchen chair.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:07:43 +0000

Sorry to double post but wanted to clarify, my two year old daughter went to the Cooshee when she was about about 9 months old…not two years old. Just didn’t want people to think they had to wait.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:06:22 +0000

I have to pipe in my vote for Cooshee as well. We’ve got two now, our two yr old daughter lasted abuot a day in a high chair and went directly to Cooshee. It is surprisingly ‘containing’ and ’supportive’. As mentioned, very easy to clean and store away. We’ve got number three (kid that is) on the way, and will definately order another one, and probably a couple spare for when we have friends with kids over. Definately the way to go.

By: Recovering Food Waster

Recovering Food Waster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:32:51 +0000

We used a booster seat that had a tray for all of our four kids…never did buy a highchair!

By: christa

christa — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:44:17 +0000

Don’t they have some chairs that sort of “hook on” to the dining table? they don’t have any feet at all, but rather some long handle type things that use the table and the hook type arms (flat on the top, curved on the bottom) to support the weight of the baby. I think they can unhook and come apart for storage? I looked through the comments and didn’t see any of these. Maybe they don’t make them anymore?

By: kirsty

kirsty — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:32:44 +0000

Add another vote for the Tripp Trapp (or similar); it’s just a regular go under the table chair so it doesn’t get in the way any more than your regular chairs and nor is it tacky brightly coloured plastic baby paraphernalia. We’ve had it from 6 months to 3 years so far and it’s going to last several more years (as my daughter’s chair that is; the chair is so well made it’ll probably outlast the rest of our furniture!).

By: Joseph Z

Joseph Z — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:15:24 +0000

When I was a baby (longer ago than I’d like to think) my parents had something that tripled as a high chair, booster seat, and car seat. Apparently, it also had a stroller attachment, though my parents didn’t buy it. Unfortunately, my mother can’t remember what company made it.

Something like that should be on the market again, or rather, always.

By: Cate

Cate — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:45:16 +0000

My husband and I really like the IKEA ‘Antelope’. It is super easy to clean and fairly inexpensive. We had bought the huge, fold up, fabric covered model and ended up gifting it to a family member and buying this one. We actually bought another one for the neighbors as well because we share meals so often!!

By: Kendra

Kendra — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:11 +0000

My friend has that Fisher Price booster chair and loves it. Now that you’re daughter’s growing, I suggest the Kaboost Portable Chair Booster: http://www.kaboost.com/