highchair for 6mth old starting weaning, best one to buy??

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ds has just started solids,6 months old, can't sit up without "wobbling" yet. Hates his bouncy chair, seems to "bunched up" to swallow properley in car seat, and arms and legs everywhere if feeding hm on my knee!!! Can anyone recommend a good first highchair?

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Except spending too much time on MN - bad enid!

Another vote for Tripp trapp - with cushions stuffed down the back when she first started in it. I loved it so much I embroidered her name on the back seat cover!

I've got one of the dreaded Chicco beasts and I have a love hate relationship with it. Ds has been in it since before he could sit up and the padding really helped there and the tilt makes it easy to get him in and out. However, I do have to put a folded up towel on the seat to raise him up. So that becomes just another place for food to end up. Thankfully we have enough space to have it up the whole time but it is a real PITA. The real benefit for me has been the tray and the wheels. I often put ds in it when I'm doing kitchen chores and he'll play away happily as the tray is nice and big. I need a bad-mummy award as there is no way I'm scrubbing it every day, I just clean the tray and remove any lumps. Last time I cleaned it it took me 50mins and a toothbrush! And then was filthy after the next meal. Perhaps I need to buy a pressure washer for the highchair.

I would not buy it again and am also contemplating ebaying it. My mum bought a great second hand highchair for ds. It's a Winnie the Pooh wooden one by Mothercare. It folds nice and flat so could easily go in an understairs cupboard. It's very easy to wipe clean and move around. So I guess I'm in the market for a new highchair.

Thanks for recommendations, will probably be avoiding Chicco Mamma!! Tripp Trapp seems very popular, do those who use it not miss a tray when baby starts finger foods etc? Also, as they are quite expensive, anyone know of any shops/websites with good prices? Was looking on kiddicare.com at the east coast wooden chair, similar to Tripp Trapp-anyone used this one?

there's a looky likey tripp trapp on the tchibo website, around £30 i think, looks just like our real one. with finger foods, i just put them on the table in front of my dds, no need for a tray. but do get one of those vinyl wipe-clean tablecloths..john lewis do a good range of patterns, colours etc

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I have never missed a tray, but then as DD is my first I am not used to having one.When we go to our friend's though DD wasn't impressed witht he normal highchair and tray at all.

Finger foods just go on the table in front of DD when she was little. Table is very low maintenance and just wipes down so no problems there.

We took the baby kit off when DD was about 20 months and she now uses it like a chair (but higher and with more back/feet support) now.

And we don't use it just for eating. She sits in it at the table for craft work and playing, and at the computer too.

our regular cafe has the east coast one. its very solid and nice looking but the tray is useless - it is too small and has no lip, so when they start to feed themselves you waste loads as it very quickly ends up on the floor

Nope do not miss a tray! Easier to wipe the table clean than it is to clean a tray!