Am I the only person with a baby and a breakfast bar? More highchair help

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OK, so DS is only 14 weeks old, but I like to be prepared. We don't have a kitchen table, bit we do have a breakfast bar, at which we eat most of our meals. It is 900mm high (normal worktop height) and the stools we sit at are 700mm high. I really, really want a highchair that is tall enough to use at a breakfast bar - where the seat level is about 700mm or so high.

I know when I wean DS this won't be so much of an issue, but in time to come I'd like him to be able to join us at the breakfast bar - most of the highchairs on the market would barely have the top of his head at the level of the breakfast bar.

I know there is the Bloom on on a hydraulic lift and the M&P copy, but they are a bit too pricey and very big.

Because of the cantilever effect of a child hanging over the side of a high chair the higher it is the heavier/ broader the base needs to be to counteract this. Hence increase in size/ price.

An alternative would be to get a sturdy 200mm plinth (a couple of breeze blocks would be cheap) and secure a standard high chair to them.

You can get high chairs which hang off the side of a table. This is one example:
www.amazon.com/Regalo-Diner-Portable-Hook-Chair/dp/B0000A1O7P

what about one of those seats that clips on the side?

I would definitely buy on the ones similar to what snowgum has linked to. I use one at my friends who has a breakfast bar and DD2 loves it!

I third the chair that hooks on - the child is really part of the meal as well

DD sat in a Phil and Teds one in Wagamama the other day (I know! Get me! We don't get out much....) which clipped on to the end of the table and it was great. It's suitable for babies up to 15 kg, and looked good for taking on holiday, too. There's a link to it
here

I'm thinking of buying one - we have a dining table but also a breakfast bar in the kitchen where DD likes to sit when I'm cooking.

Get a clip on one. I used one for DS2 due to lack of space in our last house. It was a hand-me-down that had done two children and has now been handed on in fine fettle! Mine was from John Lewis. Also up to 15kg.

i go for snowgums, be great for a little un to be that high!

pg, whats your mn name going to be when number 3 arrives?

I had a clip on one from freecycle and the idea was great BUT our one was not washable so it didn't get used. It was an obsorbant fabric but we couldn't work out how to get it off to go through the wash.

We then had one that was washable BUT wasn't as secure. It "slotted" on to the table, rather than the clamp. The clamp was much more secure.

But if we were to have one that was washable and secure then it would have been fab

the phil & ted's clip on one is great here

right - have read first half-dozen or so posts.
Yes we have a breakfast bar. And yes, we have had three babies (not all at once, you understand)

Stage 1 : wobbly tot in highchair with reins and tray - we used the mothercare 'cube' one so that they use it as a snack place or drawing-station as they get older, when used as a small table and chair. DD is three yo and still using hers - plenty more use in it.
Stage 2 toddler in highchair with skyhook reins and tray - seated at the end of the b/fast bar
stage 3 - acquire one of these things and attach it to the spare breakfast bar chair (we got our 'spare chair' from the local charity shop, very sturdy high seat, so child seat fixes beautifully on to it. Place child in this with tray attached until you are reasonably certain that child will not minesweep breakfast bar contents
stage 4 - around 2.6yrs, child sits in chair without tray, pulled up to b/fast bar

Thank you folks for your advice.

ANTagony, I am a civil engineer with a physics degree, so I understand why highchairs get bigger and pricier as they get taller, but am still at £300-ish for one of these bloom fresco, although cosatto do a similar one for about half the price cosatto chair. M&P too, but still ££££ (And they never have them in the factory shop, which is local to me)M&P

There is also this, although I am funpod highchair

I am very of the highchairs with clamp onto tables, as I have seen one fail with a child in it. It was the table top that gave way, rather than the chair bolts. The engineer in me is not comfortable with this!

Like your advice gigglewitch. You seem to have worked through my problems for me!

nice one BRS
just passed on what we did, good ol' experience. If you add up the cost of the cube highchair and the other booster seat thingy, tis still a heck of a lot cheaper than forking out for a single piece of kit. Even if you have an extreme shortage of space, this lot will fit. The booster thingy is also very handy when you go to visit grannies / aunties/ friends etc as it folds up and fits under your pram or in the car boot.

Have fun figuring it out!!

Hi,
Bloom High chair-very expensive but daughter can sit at our breakfast bar with us or when lowered, at table. Very heavy-tricky to move almost, round circular wide base so space may be a problem. John Lewis sell them.
Sorry not a lot of time!
Happy searching!