booster seat vs high chair?

Booster Seat or HighChair for your 6 months and above baby?

  • Booster Seat (the ones you attached to a regular chair)

    Votes: 5 17.9%

  • Regular High Chair

    Votes: 20 71.4%

  • Use Both

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Total voters
    28
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eplo19

Registered User
I'm still debating if I should buy a booster seat on the go like the 1st Safety one or a basic highchair for my 61/2 month old. We bought the 1st Safety booster seat already for the purpose of bringing it out to her grandparents or to friends house or to restaurants that doesn't have highchairs... but we're still debating if we should get a regular highchair as well... why would a highchair be better?
 
We used to sit our little one on his bumbo and fortunately the dining chair has arms so he won't slide off :-) But we did get a highchair at 9 months though since I believe the boosters aren't high enough (h/chair is adjustable) and there is a risk of the chair tipping over of he should kick the table, etc.
 
I have a hgih chair from my first and I hate it. The pad is cloth, not plastic so it is always dirty, it is really hard to take the straps out to wash them. It is foldable, but food was always getting into the hinge and I had to use a toothpick to get it out! I am starting solids soon with my 6 month old. I went to Toys are us today and they have a lot of different booster chairs (this was in canada, so not sure if the TRU in HK will sell the same brands) There were some that change height positions, they have the dishwasher safe clip on trays over the regular tray too. Booster seats have come along way from how they used to be. I think I will buy the one I found that the entire thing can come apart and all peices can go in the dishwasher. I want one that is very easy to clean. Other nice things to get, whether it is a high cahir or booster seat, are trays that come off easily,the dishwasher safe tray on the top
 
I got a 1st Safety Booster Seat that has one height adjustable "legs" and so far are using that before I decide if i need a highchair or not.. is that this one that Capital is talking about?
 
We are using the high chair too... but if I had to buy another one, I would go for an easiest design, as we also have to clean all these little corners with a brush, and we have never used all its functions, like differents levels, up and down, sit or lying etc.... and we took the cushion seat away very quickly as our son was sticking to it with the heat and his head was always wet !
 
I never had a regular high chair ... waste of money, too big, too much plastic. We have a Stokke, we have 2 actually and have Fisher Price Healthy Care Booster seats which I bought for US$20 a piece and have been worth every single penny! I couldn't live without the Stokke, that's what we use daily. When the twins started using them, when my oldest was around 3 (twins 6 months) we moved my oldest to a booster cushion (Babysmart Cooshee) which has been working fine (she often uses the regular seat anyway).
 
but Stokke IS a highchair. not much difference at all - highchair does not mean plastic - can be anything. In my mind - highchair is good if you have the space. also in my case we have very nice dinning chairs - i really did not want to pop a booster chair on top of that.. so pros and cons in both
 
The typical high chair to me, is the one with plastic, reclining seat, tray, etc. The ones most kids grow out of at age 18 months, maybe 2. Stokke is a high chair, but very different to the typical one.
 
Definitely would second for a Stokke Tripp Trapp. We used to have a peg perego highchair when bub was 4 months. We figured out it's a wrong buy soon after, coz he never was tall enough to reach the food tray, nor could we put him near our table coz the chair was too bulky. What we hated it most was that bub was always sweaty in it, and the fabric was so difficult to clean. So we ended up buying a booster seat for him which was more convenient. But now at 2 years he's growing out of the booster seat plus there is no foot rest for him. So we decided to get him a Stokke. He likes it so much. If I only knew how good it is we would have purchased it earlier. It's so convenient, and easy to clean.
 
if you had booster seat, i think it unnecessary to have high chair esp. your baby is 6 1/2 months old (unless your home have plenty of space and you have spare $)

people usually buy highchair brand like combi/ aprica which can be used as rocker or a temp nap bed in the living room from newborn because it can be reclined to 170'+ degree. then, make it multi-purpose by adjusting the back when your baby getting older who start to learn sitting and then fit for meal time
 
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