To be very scared to use my Tripp Trapp now??

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Just returned from A&E with DS 16 months. He was sitting in his Tripp Trapp strapped in but as my IDIOT!!!! husband walked across the kitchen to get DS his tea, DS pushed against the table, put his legs up and pushed backwards tipping the chair up and straight over backwards. He toppled back and slammed his head against the tiled floor He is ok, massive lump and watching him closly but am soooooo cross with DH!!! I have moved the chair to back up against the wall and table so he can't move it, but should this be able to happen??

Hi ... we had a bit of a problem with our Trip Trapp, with my ds pushing away from the table with his legs. Mostly, the tripp trapp just slid backwards on the floor, but once it started to tilt backwards. As the others have said, it's a design flaw ... but still quite rare. Accidents can happen anywhere.

It wasn't your DH's fault, but I can well understand why you're mad. It's like that old thing when your child runs out onto the road and you shout at them ... mainly out of relief and a realisation of how much worse it could have been and you just need to get all the emotion out.

BLOODY HELL - am really shocked by that film.

I use my highchair as a holding device to do stuff around the kitchen - strapped in of course, its been through 2 dcs and they have never been able to move it...

PresidentTaylor we have address the DH thing and the thread is not called AIBU for blaming DH.

Any ideas about the anti slip things??? Never heard of them I have to say. Thanks Maiakins your spot on!

Mine were both fine sat on them as chairs from quite young. the alternative was them falling from a greater height as they attempted to climb out over the wooden harness bit.

My turn? My turn?

If an accident happens when dp has the children - which it does, then its an accident and no blame is apportioned in our house!

I slipped down 5 or 6 stairs a few weeks ago carrying ds2 to the loo in the night, we both had bumps and bruises (and I blacked out from the shock of the whack to my hip). Did dp blame me? No did he hell it was an accident! He never even commented on it. He just came running up and made sure everyone was alright, sat holding the screaming child while I came round.. it just wouldn't occur to him to have blamed me and up till tonight never occured to ME that anyone would blame me either. If he had been carrying the child that night I'd have done exactly the same.

I would blame whoever decided that that would be a great highchair for a baby tbh - I would go out and get an antilop for now and then start using the tripp trapp again when your toddler can use it as a chair...

I have a Breezi chair for Ds2, which was Dd2's when she was younger due to her disabilities, it has feet that go right across the bottom, unlike the tripptrapp, but could this also topple??

Thanks giantkatestacks but I think you could tip that too! I think wedging it in is the answer.......or picnics on the floor!

I got the first one after seeing them in use as chairs at my friends house for her 5 and 6 year old daughters tbh. Then ds1 was so attached to his at 16m when ds2 was born that we got another.
We have a very small kitchen and the tripp trapps just sit under the table and take up no room. I couldn't bear the thought of one of those plastic contraptions either taking up half the kitchen, or taking up all the understairs cupboard folded up between meals.

Thanks for link Sparkly but I think as they are so close to table (good reasons too!) they can use it to get legs onto and push off!

From the video I think the only safe way to use it is against the wall. The baby looked like it was rather experienced!

[goes downstairs to have a look/experiment] I dont think its possible with the tray on - their legs would have to be really long to get enough leverage. The tray is exactly level with the table and so the legs would have to angle upwards as well.

Flibberty - I would use a portable chair seat in that situation. Though you do lose the flexibility/holding thing then - I cart my highchair out onto the patio when its sunny to hold dd while I'm putting washing out or playing footie with ds etc.

the breezi just glides across our flooring, but we have a tray on ours atm so Ds2 can't kick the table anyway, but its scary watching the video.

Just tested our Moizi chair, I would say that once a child found out how to tip it, it could be done but it was quite difficult. We have wooden floors and DD had to really push against the table while I put my foot behind the foot of the chair.

I think that the centre of balance is a little further back on the Moizi. Not sure if they are available in UK.

Tbh, I suspect that once a child has discovered that they can do it, there is not a lot you can do to stop them tipping except tie the chair to the table.

That video is very scary, the baby seems to think it is a fun game.

I had a look on the Stokke website and there is absolutely no reference to this problem, or advice where to buy the anti-tip device that they have obviously designed.