How long did you actually use your highchair for?

[Yorkiegirl]

I've got a M&P Prima pappa highchair. I know some people love ti and some people hate it, I've had a lot of use out of it. But now I'm just finding it takes up too much room. Would I be best off buying a booster seat that straps to a chair, or splashing out on a tripp trapp?
Recommendations if you please. DD2 is 8mo now, DD1 still uses her booster seat at 3.

DS had just a booster chair as we had no room for a high chair - he was fine in it from 6 months onwards. In bigger house so got "proper" high chair for DD. She started in it at about 5 months, and we have just moved her into a booster chair and she loves it (Probably because they sit on chair at table at nursery - not in high chairs) - she's now approaching 17 months so it did us a year ! wish we hadn't bothered really have to find a new owner for it now!

You can change the depth of the seat too - that might help a bit.

We had a chicco highchair thing given to us - blooming thing.
Oh it's sturdy yes.
It's bulky, a nightmare for cleaning and hidden pockets for stale food to mount up.
Not only that, it's got a tray which is too high and rest under my DS chin and it doesn't go under a table thanks to the carver style chair desigh which reminds me of a car seat.
So needles to say ordered another chair for us and the other one is going to mums for days when DS goes up there.
This is the chair we are getting and my son prefers this kind.

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tripp trapp gets my vote as DS1 still uses his for everything and he is 4. we got another one for DS2 as we plan for them to use it for years

it also gives their feet support so they are not dangling on adult chairs

I got the second one over the web and the price included delivery, Back in Action I think was the cheapest when I looked

BUT some mums like having a separate tray and a different kind of chair as they don't like cleaning the table or risking the baby pawing at other stuff on the table

Tripp trapp gets my vote too - got it when dd was around 7 months and it's great.

Actually gets easier to get them in and out when they're bigger - they know how to straighten their legs etc. DD is now 2 and the seat is still as high as it was when I first got it (footrest has been moved down) and can still get her in no probs (but not with shoes!). Am now thinking when to take off the baby set - but it means she stays in one place for a few mins so maybe not just yet!!

We've got the Chicco chair, yes it's bulky, but it's excellent. Ds, 4, uses a booster, and dd, 2, is in the highchair. I'd have been happy for her to move to a booster as soon as she was old enough not to cause chaos at the table (ie about 15m) but in our kitchen we only have room for 3 comfortably at the table, so it works better to have dd eating off the highchair tray.

If there's room to use a Tripp Trapp at the table as a proper chair (and if your dd is safe not to grab everyhting and cause chaos), then it might be worth getting one, otherwise I'd get a smaller highchair if you absolutely can't bear what you've got until she's ready to sit at the table and then get a booster. \link{http://www.urchin.co.uk/acatalog/BabyFeeding.html\Urchin} do a highchair that folds very compactly.

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Also a big fan of the tripp trapp.

And there's a manufacturer in Germany (a friend of mine bought it back) that produces a tray table that fits around it - in beech! Good for baby - means less mess on those cushions, which I DO remember being irritating with DD1 one used it without (and our table is slightly too high for small baby to sit up at yet...)