What’s the best baby highchair?
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Topic: What’s the best baby highchair?
Posted By: Skidley
Subject: What’s the best baby highchair?
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 1:40pm
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Hi,
My 5 month old baby girl has started solids and I need to buy a high chair. Does anyone have any advice on the sorts of features I should look for? Also, are the ones you attach to a table a good option as well? Many thanks 
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 3:14pm
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I have the Mocka Wooden one- and i really really recommend it. It is sooo easy to clean, you can adjust the seat height and feet height, its good and solid and will not break easily. All my friends are jealous and want one too! ------------- 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 3:59pm
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Same as above - Mocka wooden one. I love it! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Booski
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 5:57pm
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Ditto the wooden mocka one - will be buying a second very soon for DD2 ------------- 
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Posted By: UpsyDaisy
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 7:02pm
| we have them - so do most of the ones in my coffee group, easy to wipe down and i love that it matches rest of wood in our home |
Posted By: Clare6172
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 7:05pm
| We have the one you hook onto table/ bench top. Childcare one. Great and means no high chair cluttering space. |
Posted By: Whateversville
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 7:58pm
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I have a Metoo and a steelcraft one that is hight adjusable and can recline..I loooove the white desinger highchair from mocka tho! But can't justify THREE highcairs lol ho hum.
I have heard good things about the mocka wooden one tho so I'll still give it my vote |
Posted By: whitewave
Date Posted: 08 December 2010 at 10:57pm
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We have a Mocka designer highchair, and I love it!
But we've just bought a new dining table, and it would be really handy if I could take the tray off and push the chair up to the table, but its at exactly the same height as the table so can't push DS's legs under! The fact that the wooden version is adjustable sounds great! |
Posted By: Kirstine
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 10:10am
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i have the mocka wooden one too and don't regret it at all! have been out to a lot of cafes using various high chairs and just hate all of them! i don't like ones that recline, baby just slumps down and bum moves too far forward. Also don't like ones that you have to bring up strap between legs each time and do up with should straps, find them a PITA. With the wooden one, you plonk them in, and can buy a separate harness for upper body for more security. i found that good when she was not sitting up that great at first, and now find it good since my girl learned how to stand up in it without it! they don't take up too much floor space and are very stylish! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: jessiesmum
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 12:59pm
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I love our Mocka designer highchair. It's on its second child and still looks great - you can even hose it down when things get very messy.. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
DD 2007, Angel Baby 2009, DS 2010 |
Posted By: MuppetsMama
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 6:55pm
| I have the one that sits on a dining chair - it was about $90 from baby city and we love it! |
Posted By: HuMum
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 9:22pm
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We have the mocka plastic one. I love it. So easy to clean.
We started with a steelcraft padded reclining one. Hated it! horrible to clean (the padding ended up mouldy), and it had bits of the tray where the food gets caught. We got it because it reclined for when DS was young but I found I spent most of the early feeds with him on my knee. I recommend the simplest one you can find, and while looking think can I clean food out of that.. as you will have to clean it at least 3 times a day.
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 09 December 2010 at 10:06pm
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We were looking at the designer one by Mocka but loved how adjustable the wooden one was.
We also have one that has belts that attaches it to the chair that we go from Baby Factory for $120, we keep this at MILs so it's out of the way and for holidays. It's super handy but something like a Meetoo/etc would have been more compact although I didn't get one of those because you need a table with 4 legs - if it only has 1 center pole/leg it will tip! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: KatzWtgn
Date Posted: 10 December 2010 at 12:24pm
We have one of these too, and they are great. It's a plastic one that folds up really well -- I can also have it on the floor and take it easily to people's houses or the beach. ------------- [IMG]http://lb3f.lilypie.com/rGG7p13.png] |
MuppetsMama wrote:Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 13 December 2010 at 9:34am
I have http://www.picopico.co.nz/product.aspx?product=423&desc=Picopico%20Natural%20Highchair - this one from PicoPico, i think its possibly very similar to the Mocka ones - if you look at the bottom of the link you can see how it transforms into a chair, stool, step lader thing etc for as baby grows :) I havent put my offspring in it yet obviously but a friend has borrowed it and says its cool. Really tricky to put together though, comes in bits and no instructions 
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 13 December 2010 at 3:24pm
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I have a phil and teds metoo and a mocka designer. I think that on a high chair, you need to have a good harness and easy to clean surface and something that will last a bigger child. I like on both my chairs how there is a leg deviding thing (  ???) cause it stops the small babies that cant sit not to fall out the bottom. LIke what happens on MILs chair, tsk tsk.I love the wooden mocka chairs too. They look good. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel  07/08/2014
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Posted By: Skidley
Date Posted: 19 December 2010 at 9:01am
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Hi,
Thanks for your tips, I'll investigate the ones you've recommended :) |