Hi Mommy's
My daughter is at a stage where she doesn't seem to want to eat in her high chair anymore. She usually eats dinner at 4:30 which is of course when half the family isn't even at home. Lately all she wants to do is eat on our laps which I love but I'm wondering if she'd be just as happy at a booster with a strap. We have an island that we eat at that has wrought iron metal high back chairs so we need something that has a back on it, and a strap bc she is a squirmer!
Fisher Price chair here too! As a matter of fact, we never used a high chair this is the only chair she's ever sat in. LOVED it! Is was super easy to clean. DD is now 26 months old and sits in a regular dining room chair now but if I had it to do again, I wouldn't change thing. This is the best seat!
We have the Safety 1st booster seat from Babies R Us that we had used in restaurants, and when traveling, etc, and we now have strapped to one of our dining room chairs and have been using since my son was about 14 or 15 months (he's 2.5 now). It's held up well. I would definitely move her to a booster soon before she gets too used to sitting in your lap, or she may never want to leave your lap for meals!
We 1st removed the tray part and let her eat at the table but in the high chair, then the booster for a short time, and since 2 shes J. sat at the table like everyone else does, I'm not sure I'd eat at that high of a table though, II had a friend who's kid fell right over and was strapped in so they landed on their head. so we J. like her eating at a regular chair and table like we do
It isn't a booster, but what we did was bought a little table and chairs at Ikea so my ds can eat at a table that is comfortable for him. It's right next to ours, so we can talk with him. He also will eat at our table in the highchair without the tray... we just pull the high chair up to the table.
Also have the Fisher-Price chair and Love it! We use it at home and we also take it everywhere with us now- so much better then a broken high chair in a restaurant! My daughter just turned 19 mos.
I bought one for 12 dollars at Babies r us....it is the especially for kids brand. I like it better than the safety 1st one i bought for $30.
I bought the following one at Target for my twin girls:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/190-###-###-####-###...
It can be used with or without the tray depending if you have them at the table or not. Also, very easy to take with you to another house or on vacation. Good luck.
We also have the Fisher Price chair (same as Beth B.). I would definitely recommend it. We often use it on a wrought iron high back chair at a friend's house. It slants back a little because the chair's seat slants back, but it works great on that chair. At home we just have it on a regular kitchen table chair (and it sits flat). We like to use the tray, too. The chair is great for travel and home!
I bought the same one from Target as Beth B. Love it -- it works great! My daughter is 3 now and it is sturdy, has held up well and cleans very easily.
I'm wondering if it's that chair or style of chair particularly that she doesn't like. Or if it's the separation from you that having a tray in the front of her forces that bothers her. One thing we were taught as adoptive parents is to have a lot of eye contact and interaction at mealtime. Perhaps that would ease her separation anxiety, if that's at the heart of it. If it's the chair, I switched my daughter around between two different ones for a while (a smaller, portable model, and her higher, full high chair. Then a little later on, when she no longer needed a tray, we bought her a pretty wooden chair (we found it used, for only $20, at a church sale), a miniature of ours, which she used until she past toddlerhood.
