This highchair looks good and is available in a good range of funky fabric designs. It has a lot of features, a seat insert for smaller babies, parent tray, storage bag, removable tray with dishwashable overlay, adjustable footrest, adjustable height and a fully reclining seat. However even after all this I was surprisingly underwhelmed.
Perhaps it's a case of too many features considering the actual amount of time spent using the product is fairly small. For a start the seat never seemed to be at just the right angle. My son was always slightly too laid back, he would sit upright away from the back of the seat so got no back support at all. He never fell asleep after eating so never made use of the recline feature, plus I'm not sure I'd want to leave him sleeping in a highchair, surely you would transfer them to bed.
The adjustable height feature was useful when he was first weaned so didn't sit at table height but at a lower height in front of me. When he started feeding himself and would sit to the table the height could never be adjusted to match the height of the table. If the tray was removed and the chair pushed up to the table it never fitted under properly, always too low or squashing his legs.
The worst aspect of all was because of all the fiddly bits like the holes in the footrest, the double seat insert, the grooves in the armrest and the nooks and crannies of the seat itself, cleaning was a nightmare. Yes the seat padding is wipe clean and the straps are detatchable but getting bits of food out of the rest of it was a real pain in the bum.
I did like the parent tray, useful for your coffee! The storage bag is great for bibs, wipes etc and the wheels did mean it was easily manoeverable but overall I would go for something far simpler, and cheaper, next time.
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We had one of these and my daughter used to reguarly fall asleep in it and we would leave her, if we tried to get her out whilst asleep she would scream the house down. Even now at 3 1/2 if she falls asleep anywhere and we try to pick her up she wakes up immediately screams and kicks out.
Jul 29th, 2009
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