Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Please come and give me a slap ...

34 replies

Asana · 08/12/2009 15:33

I am in the process of purchasing a highchair for DS. Have found that he can't fit comfortably into the Bumbo anymore and feeding him on the sofa or on the floor is a PITA - he always finds numerous things to distract him (be that a toy or a fleck of fluff on the floor), ends up trying to crawl away/project off my lap, gets food everywhere etc. So, have decided to elevate and (hopefully!) trap him in a highchair where there is nothing to distract him within easy reach.

For some inexplicable reason, I have my heart set on a Svan highchair. Why, I don't know. Given that I live in Croydon and can easily get myself a £12 Ikea Antilop chair, I know IABU. Yet, I keep staring dreamily at the Svan online, thinking it could be mine in under 24 hours. I'm having to wipe flecks of manic drool off my laptop screen. I did find a second hand Svan on eBay and was the highest bidder, but was pipped by the oh-so-annoying reserve price. Add that to having to arrange delivery myself via a courrier company (as I can't drive), it just seems like so much effort when Kiddicare will deliver it to me the following day.

So, ye muses of MNet, please come and give me a well-deserved slap to help me regain my senses. Many thanks in advance!

OP posts:
PrincessToadstool · 08/12/2009 15:35

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Indith · 08/12/2009 15:38

Doesn't look that comfy for a small baby.

You will spend all your time washing the cushions

When they get older they are not going to want to sit on a highchair even if it has had the straps taken off.

You could get a lovely, easy to wipe down, comfy to sit in even without an insert antilop and go shopping for new shoes and still have some change.

GibbonInARibbon · 08/12/2009 15:40

Everyone told me what a waste of money the svan was but it has done a great job and still looks like new years later. I don't regret buying mine but I can see that any highchair will do the same job

OooohWhatAFuss · 08/12/2009 15:41

SLAP

dilemma456 · 08/12/2009 15:44

Message withdrawn

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 08/12/2009 15:44

I can totally empathise with your situation.
I drooled and drooled over a high chair for dd. It was a gorgeous colour was all singing all dancing.
So I bought it for my PFB dd.....when it came to using it I hated it. Was far too big, was horrible to clean don't get me wrong was perfectly functional but I got blinded by the beauty of it.
Barely used it...used it less with ds ended up getting him a booster to the table and am pg with no. 3 and have just bought the Antilop for my nephew to use over christmas knowing I will use and love it over the coming years.

Original poster
Asana · 08/12/2009 16:12

But Indith, I don't want shoes. I don't even want s. I want a Svaaaaan!!

Damn you Gibbon!! Right, that's it. No more Svan owners unless they are here to tell me what a PITA it is to clean/assemble/store!

OooohWhatAFuss, don't you worry. Keep those slaps coming!

OP posts:
Indith · 08/12/2009 16:16

Don't want shoes or s? You are odd. Buy and antilop woman.

fillybuster · 08/12/2009 16:17

Would it help to know that DH and I went through similar traumas and loved the Svan but bought an Ikea Antilop as a 'filler' whilst we thought about it?

4 years and 2 years on the Antilop is still where it's at...we love it, its immensely practical and easy to clean and the legs come out nicely to be put away in-between highchair users. FWIW, I've discovered I like my kids learning to sit on 'proper' chairs at the table as early as possible, so another unforseen benefit of not spending lots of money.

fillybuster · 08/12/2009 16:19

bloody pg brain. I meant "4 years and 2 dcs on..."

GibbonInARibbon · 08/12/2009 16:19

Sorry Asana

Truly though, any highchair does the same job.

DaftApeth · 08/12/2009 16:28

Get a Tripp trapp! Adults can even use them.

MmeLindt · 08/12/2009 16:29

Had to google that as I had no idea what a Svan is.

Are TripTraps out then?

We bought an expensive wooden high chair and it was great, DD is still using it today (at 7yo).

Saying that, for DS we bought a Chicco Polly and it was fab.

Wipe clean, reclines - DS used to go to sleep in it.

Shoshe · 08/12/2009 16:30

How MUCH!!!!

EvilTwinsStoleSantasSleigh · 08/12/2009 16:35

DO IT. I had my heart set on two Tripp Trapps (twins dontcha know) and so we got them. I loved that they pushed up to the table straight away, and yes, we make our friends sit on them rather than going upstairs to get spare chairs when we have them over for dinner. I refused to even consider other chairs. My children will sit on them until they leave home.

If you want a Svan, get one.

FlyMeToDunoon · 08/12/2009 16:39

Get a DanChair. Cheaper and still nicely wooden and practical.

TheBossofMe · 08/12/2009 16:46

Again a recommendation for the DanChair - good looking, practical and relatively cheap.

BouncingTurtle · 08/12/2009 16:51

I heart my Antilop. Cheap, very easy to keep clean as no crevices for food to hide and easy to transport when we have gone away visiting family or on holiday.
Think of all the things you could buy with the difference between the Antilop and the poncy Svan (sorry but it is is poncy).
I cannot see the point in spending ££££s on a higchair that your baby is going to do its best to grind weetabix/broccoli/butternut squash and banana into!

ijustwanttoaskaquestion · 08/12/2009 17:38

i'll slap you if you dont get it!!! seriously - i take it that its a wooden one?? I wanted the trip trap i think thats what it called but i felt it was excessive. Then whent and bought a bloody awful padded high chair becauwes it thought it more practical - awful - so many cracks and crevices, impossible to keep really clean -hated it, the single most crap thing i ever bought.

ijustwanttoaskaquestion · 08/12/2009 17:40

£170??????????????? blimey, considering a slight slap

Original poster
Asana · 08/12/2009 17:46

Just picked DS up from childminder's and she remarked on how his poos aren't normal at his age (typical runny b'milk poos, and he's 7mo) and he should be on more solids She's obviously not happy at having to clean up after him when he gets poo up his back, down his trousers and into his socks. At least she doesn't have to wash them afterwards!

Honestly, do people think I don't try to feed him solids? It's just bloody hard when he keeps his mouth clamped shut if I move so much as a morsel of food near it and, instead, insists on crawling after balls of dust miniscule pieces of fluff on the floor and clawing at my top to get to my s. See, even more incentive to get a highchair with a tray pronto! I think BLW is the way to go.

Now, just wondering what pieces of steamed broccoli and cauliflower would look like on a Svan tray ....

OP posts:
fillybuster · 08/12/2009 19:10

Asana , dontcha know? BLW looks exactly the same on any bloody highchair....a great big mess! Which is why the antilop is so great: really good size tray for pusing the food around on (with a lip to stop it falling off), which you can really easily remove and wash after every meal, and a highchair itself with no cushions, no faffy bits or anything else which you can wipe down really quickly and easily....which is definitely a priority

Original poster
Asana · 08/12/2009 19:32

I know fillybuster, I know, but I can't help this madness, can I?!?! I've been bewitched by Scandinavian brands - first Stokke, now Svan! I blame my Scandinavian DH [ANGRY]

Eureka! I'm going to decide it using "Best of 5 - heads or tails"!!!

OP posts:
LaDiDaDi · 08/12/2009 19:36

Hmm, I actually don't like it .

Maleeka · 08/12/2009 19:48

I should slap you silly for that price !!And its ugly as!!

Swipe left for the next trending thread