Svan highchair - do I really need safety straps ?

[hub2dee]

The above chair came with D hooks for safety straps, but no safety straps - you buy them separately.

Erm: are they really needed, and are they all the same or should I particularly hunt down one make / fastening mech etc. ?

they're needed once you have an 11 month old who can wriggle himself out and stand up

Or when you have a baby who likes to try and hurl herself head-first out of the chair when she's having a paddy ... or thinks it's a good game to throw her spoon on the floor and then try and reach down to pick it up again.

Any old set then, sl ?

The chair doesn't actually have any strap guides etc., and the safety bar (the vertical bit) looks like it would block a waist-level strap IYSWIM. All a bit strange. Hmm.

Was just gonna staple her to the chair back, toadie...

yeah.. i'm sure a bog standard set of reins woul dbe fine

YES YES YES

A toddler can wriggle out of a highchair in a nano second.

Not sure about any particular make being better than another, in my experience, the clip together fastening that you get on most buggy harnesses ( the one that can take lumps out of your hand if you catch them wrong) are quite effective.

OK, OK... I will make this a pressing task. Tragically, mothercare is out of 'princess pink' safety harnesses. Woe be Mini-Me.

Sorry, just reread post, didn't make much sense.

The type of fastening you get on a buggy is usually the same as the standard safety harnesses you can buy in mothercare etc...

Your highchair must be compatable with some kind of harness coz of the D rings, maybe your highchair manufacturer would be able to advise you. Hope you find a harness that fits!

Will enquire from distributor. Thanks p&s.

Annoyingly, the US models include a three point harness and the UK ones don't. How niggling.