Bloom Fresco

Great looking high chair, nice height and stability. Smooth action when adjusting, nice large tray too. On the downside it's maybe a little tricky to clean and has a large footprint. Not cheap either, but if you're reading this you'll already know that.

The Bloom 'loft' high chair is not the bloom highchair. It's higher than most 'high' chairs.

Thats high, I can tell you! and I love it for that very reason. You don't have to actually live in a loft to appreciate its hydraulic system that allows you to adjust the seating from table level to bar level. It would be great in fact if you could get these brilliant little baby pods in bars! So your little one could keep you company whilst you quench your liver in unsustainable liquids but they don't, most probably for that very reason.

Nevertheless it's so adaptable and great the idea of a fixed seat seamed implausible in our little space. Although it's somewhat cumbersome, you have to build the space pod on delivery and it has somewhat awkward wheels to help you glide, if necessary, along the floor once assembled.

It has three adjustable ages:

- 0-6 months (for when your little one can rest in it strapped in of course like a baby in a tulip snoozing)

- 6-18 months (for when we have started to wean him. It works so well in our kitchen as you can swing him round to you and offer him various fruits and vegetables when cooking as well as feed him at waist hight if need be.

The straps are a little bit big at this stage, at 7 months, they are like space flight security straps, I just end up clipping him in at the waist and use the shoulder straps as support on either side of his waist.)

- 18 months-3/4 years (it adjusts into a seat later.)

The price is justified by its longevity.

If you are into adaptability and want to have your little one with you in the kitchen at full loft height playing or want to feed him at your own table, this is a great one for all seasons and of course if your just a bit blue with the whole motherhood thing and someone close (and rich) to you wants to treat you and your little one to a swanky necessity this will cheer you up. Building it made me feel like I was in a scene from flash dance, a hip modern chick, maybe not working the steel mines by day but attaching a hydraulic system made me have a glimmer of pride at my tool handling ability.

Last but not least in these practical mothering wars, its practical but also just looks so damn modern. My little one looks like an extra in Stanely Kubrick's 2001 at dinner time siting in his high egg pod and, for that, it's worth every penny.

This is honestly the worst £300 I have ever spent, current our Bloom Hair is being auctioned on eBay and we swapped it for another brand.

It looks great but that is the only thing does well.

1. Our boy started using it when he was about 7 months old, he is now 13 months old. He HATES it and has never looked comfortable. Always slouched over and looks like he is going to get a bad back. The high back means he cannot look over his shoulder or behind him.

2. Whoever designed this does not have children, food gets in all the little nooks and crannies. It is very difficult to clean.

3. Putting the straps on and off is very difficult but very necessary in order to clean. Whilst takn the straps out I cut my finger and part of the chair snapped off. Do not be fooled this is made in china and close up I shows.

4.The lever at the back that adjusts the tilt is so tight and hard to pull that my wife cannot use it.

5. Wheeling it around it is unwieldy and awkward, it also takes up a lot of space.

Absolute rubbish, stay well clear!

This is honestly the worst £300 I have ever spent, current our Bloom Hair is being auctioned on eBay and we swapped it for another brand.

It looks great but that is the only thing does well.

1. Our boy started using it when he was about 7 months old, he is now 13 months old. He HATES it and has never looked comfortable. Always slouched over and looks like he is going to get a bad back. The high back means he cannot look over his shoulder or behind him.

2. Whoever designed this does not have children, food gets in all the little nooks and crannies. It is very difficult to clean.

3. Putting the straps on and off is very difficult but very necessary in order to clean. Whilst takn the straps out I cut my finger and part of the chair snapped off. Do not be fooled this is made in china and close up I shows.

4.The lever at the back that adjusts the tilt is so tight and hard to pull that my wife cannot use it.

5. Wheeling it around it is unwieldy and awkward, it also takes up a lot of space.

Absolute rubbish, stay well clear!

This is honestly the worst £300 I have ever spent, current our Bloom Hair is being auctioned on eBay and we swapped it for another brand.

It looks great but that is the only thing does well.

1. Our boy started using it when he was about 7 months old, he is now 13 months old. He HATES it and has never looked comfortable. Always slouched over and looks like he is going to get a bad back. The high back means he cannot look over his shoulder or behind him.

2. Whoever designed this does not have children, food gets in all the little nooks and crannies. It is very difficult to clean.

3. Putting the straps on and off is very difficult but very necessary in order to clean. Whilst takn the straps out I cut my finger and part of the chair snapped off. Do not be fooled this is made in china and close up I shows.

4.The lever at the back that adjusts the tilt is so tight and hard to pull that my wife cannot use it.

5. Wheeling it around it is unwieldy and awkward, it also takes up a lot of space.

Absolute rubbish, stay well clear!