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Can I use the Tripp Trapp with just the harness once the baby set gets too small?

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 13:03

Poor DD needs to nearly bend her knees backwards to get in and out of her TT with the baby set on now but she's definitely not going to be capable of sitting on it safely with out some sort of restraint for ages. So, I got her a (Stokke) harness yesterday and was about to fit it but now I'm not sure it's actually going to be safe to use on it's own.

Anyone know before I take the whole chair to pieces again for no reason?

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Mung · 03/04/2009 13:06

I think the best thing is the actual baby restraint bit. Is the chair properly adjusted? I know that my 2 DCs ended up having to be carefully lifted into the seat, but it was possible. I stopped using it when they were about 18 months and just used the chair as it is.

Mung · 03/04/2009 13:06

I suppose the harness is safer than no harness really, so you could try it.

IheartEASTEREGGS · 03/04/2009 13:07

Yes, thats exactly what I did with DS1 and what several of my friends did too.
Baby set for first bit, then chair plus harness, then just chair!

stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 13:09

How old is your DD, Ninja? We took the baby set off when DD was about 11.5 months I think and she has been fine without restraint since then...

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 13:16

DDs 16 months and not particularly large so it does sound like the baby set should still work, surely she'd just jump/wriggle/slide wildly off the seat if she had nothing to hold her in? But, if stealth-baby managed without at 11 1/2 months...

Maybe I just needed to move the seat back a bit rather than spending 30 euros on a harness

I guess I may as well fit the harness now I've got it and unpacked it. Grrrr.

Thanks all!

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prettybird · 03/04/2009 13:17

We did that too. Chair with baby set plus harness and then tok the baby set uff and just used the harness.

That's the point of the D ring facility on the chair!

prettybird · 03/04/2009 13:18

Oh - and it wasn't a special stokke harness - it was just an ordinary harness from Mothercare - the sort that you use to take them walking - but obviously minus the lead" bit. Cost a couple fo quid - but that was about 8 years ago.

stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 13:20

It should probably be taken into account that the Stealthbaby in question had the baby set removed because, although not walking at the time, she was climbing and kept attempting to climb in/out of chair - we decided it would be far less dangerous without the baby restraint - and it was. She stopped sliding off (on purpose) after a couple of bumps, and was soon climbing up and demanding to be fed

Harness could be a useful (if expensive) deterrent against sliding off, even if you don't use it much?

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 13:26

No D ring facility on this chair prettybird. 'tis a very old model though, they have changed a tiny bit (we had to saw away at adapt the new style baby set we got) but I'm sure I've not seen D rings on new models either...

Lol Stealth so she really was a Stealthbaby! DD is walking but not seriously into climbing yet. I'm just in the middle of trying to fitting the harness clips. Now slightly concerned she's going to use it as a climbing frame from now on. Oh well. This too will pas!

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stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 13:29

DD's favourite use of her tripptrapp was to push it over to the worksurface and use it to climb up and get to sharp knives shiny stuff that she wanted

Ours is the old one too - we actually gave DS the new one and DD his old one because of the incompatibility of the baby sets (we had ordered a new chair, thinking we could re-use the old baby set ).

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 13:33

Now I remember why I swore never to take the damn thing apart on my own again. Humpf.

I don't think it's going to go back together with the necessary extra bits on. Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

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mistlethrush · 03/04/2009 13:34

You had to fit the D rings when the flat-pack came...

Ds (quite big) used the baby set until he was at least 2 - it got to the stage where he litterally couldn't get out himself even if he didn't have his harness on... Seat has gone down a lot now, and still very happily using it now ds is 4.

prettybird · 03/04/2009 13:41

Sorry about that - ours is 8 years old. I hadn't realised that they had changed.

Still, we used to use the harness when we went on holiday. Used to put ds onto any old chair (probided it had decent back sipport) and then use the harness to attach him onto it - sort of winding it around it (for which we may have also had to use the reins bit).

Tip I got off mumsnet I think!

prettybird · 03/04/2009 13:43

My dad must have put the D rings on then - 'twas a Christmas present from my parents.

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 13:54

Well I have actually managed to transform the pile of sticks, little bits of metal, webbing and hormonal tears that was only 10 minutes ago littering my floor into a chair and a normal woman again I most certainly will not be taking it apart on my own again

No worries prettybird! Our TTs are MILs old dining chairs and are at least 10 or 12 years old, she had 6 or 8 so we grabbed 2 whilst we had the chance (long before DD was conceived ). There might have been D rings originally but they are long gone. Fantastic chairs and really comfortable whatever your age.

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stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 13:57

well done ninja!

So if they were being used as dining chairs, do they still have both seat and footrest, or did you get a new 'seat' with the baby set?

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 14:08

Thanks Stealth!

Well, (bear with me) the bit that's the foot rest when it's in young child mode is the same bit that's the seat in adult mode IYSWIM. We got them as MIL used them, with just that bit fitted. Luckily when the time came FIL still had one of the other bits (seat in young child mode, foot rest in older child mode) so we only had to order the baby set it's self.

My niece still uses one of MILs old TTs (she's 8 1/2) so hopefully she can be persuaded to part with what is now her foot rest when this baby needs it.

Reading the tread back it would probably have been easier to buy new TTs...

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stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 14:13

You just raised an interesting possibility - that you are supposed to swap seat and footrest over at some stage.

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 14:15

Yup! It then becomes suitable for adult perching too, I always pinch my nieces to sit on given half a chance.

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stealthsquiggle · 03/04/2009 14:17

I knew that the footrest became the seat when you converted it altogether to adult chair (as your MIL had them) but it had never occurred to me to swap them over before then [duh].

Thank You!!

mistlethrush · 03/04/2009 14:19

Ds's came with a different back too to replace the 'baby' high back when he's a bit bigger (we're going to wait until his seat is even lower and he is less likely to arch his back over the top)

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 14:19

Ah, the wonders of MN. I am still sane and your DS and my DD can both sit more comfortably. Thank you.

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NorktasticNinja · 03/04/2009 14:20

x mistlethrush. Ah, we haven't got that bit, no way I'm forking out for it either, Stokke spares are soooo expensive!

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