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Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 3/7/2009 2:13 PM BST
Total posts: 5469
First post: 22/5/2006
Last post: 26/10/2009
Anyone have one?  Any good?  Worth the £££?

I like the look of them, and the fact that they don't have a tray so that bebe sits at the table with you.  But - does this make things difficult when they're very young?

Also, on googling them, I came across some rather alarming youtube footage:


There is some rather heated debate below it though, so just wondering if anyone here has one and thinks it is perfectly safe?

Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 8:03 AM BST
Total posts: 2311
First post: 5/9/2006
Last post: 17/9/2009
Hi Ziggurat. I have two high chairs. The Tripp Trapp and the cheap plastic Ikea white one with the tray (called Antilop, you can order it online now, I think, costs 9 pounds!).

The cheap IKEA one rocks. If you plan to do baby led weaning this is *the* chair. The tray is perfect for them playing and picking up food and it's so damn easy to wash. You can also butt it up to the table so they are more or less at the table. Accept no substitute!

My baby is small and even at this stage was kicking out at the table in the Tripp Trapp and the chair fell back, although I managed to catch it in time.

I will go back to the Tripp Trapp when she's older and has learned not to kick. Or I will plant her far enough away from the table (which sort of defeats the object). I like how they look and how long they last and although I think Stokke products can be way too expensive and a bit wanky in some cases (that silly silly pram they do) I am buying their Sleepi Cot/Junior bed.

So I'd put up with a good few months of ugly white plastic. They're actually not that aesthetically unpleasing -- nothing like those horrid plasticky puffy plastic seated coloured monstrosities you see in mothercare.

Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 8:21 AM BST
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First post: 11/6/2005
Last post: 23/11/2009
A high chair is a high chair.. put baby in.. feed baby.. take baby out and wipe down.  They all do the same job...  Personally i think a tray is really handy.. it means you can put the chair anywhere and let them get on with the job themselves as well as making a glorious mess which they love doing
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Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 8:52 AM BST
Total posts: 5469
First post: 22/5/2006
Last post: 26/10/2009
In Response to Re: Tripp Trapp high chair:
Accept no substitute! 
Posted by dorisbonkers


 Thanks for the tip!  I've just had a look and I see what you mean - it's way preferable to the bog standard souped-up, primary-colours-extravaganza you usually see.  

In Response to Re: Tripp Trapp high chair:
A high chair is a high chair.. put baby in.. feed baby.. take baby out and wipe down.  They all do the same job...  
Posted by THEREALDEAL


Hmm, see, I know what you're saying, but....! 

Thanks both!

Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 9:58 AM BST
Total posts: 2311
First post: 5/9/2006
Last post: 17/9/2009
Have a look through the babyledweaning.com forum here http://www.babyledweaning.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=e9d028b6ce0dae77837b67770dca8b62 and see the long discussions extolling its virtues, with some discussions of Tripp Trapp and BabyDan seats.

Some of those ones I've seen in Mothercare are ridiculous. For a start they look like dentist chairs, but how the hell are you supposed to clean all that padded plastic seating and twisty intricate reign nonsense. And they are so fugly and expensive.

That high chair is the best product Ikea have come up with. I bought several. One for our roof garden and one to keep at the in-laws.

If you do get a Tripp Trapp, get one off eBay.

Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 12:44 PM BST
Total posts: 2122
First post: 24/5/2004
Last post: 20/9/2009
In Response to Tripp Trapp high chair:
Anyone have one?  Any good?  Worth the £££? I like the look of them, and the fact that they don't have a tray so that bebe sits at the table with you.  But - does this make things difficult when they're very young? Also, on googling them, I came across some rather alarming youtube footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB7V7HDYAtQ There is some rather heated debate below it though, so just wondering if anyone here has one and thinks it is perfectly safe?
Posted by Ziggurat

I don't have kids but, for what it's worth, one of my brothers had one ages ago when his first baby was born, carried on using it for baby no 2 and then carried on using it as a chair for years afterwards.  He always says it was really expensive to buy but it was worth every penny and then some. 

His eldest daughter has now had a baby herself and has one which she (and her little boy!) love. 

My other brother had 2 kids some 10 - 15 years later and he loved his chair too (and it was given to them by a friend whose kids had outgrown it)

None of them have complained about stability problems with them.

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Re: Tripp Trapp high chair

posted at 4/7/2009 12:45 PM BST
Total posts: 5469
First post: 22/5/2006
Last post: 26/10/2009
Have a look through the babyledweaning.com forum here http://www.babyledweaning.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=e9d028b6ce0dae77837b67770dca8b62 and see the long discussions extolling its virtues, with some discussions of Tripp Trapp and BabyDan seats. 
Posted by dorisbonkers


Thanks for the link to that site - didn't realise it existed. 

My best friend has just started her baby on rice, and I've had to bite my tongue to stop going all evangelical (and I haven't even started yet!).  She was telling me that her little one isn't at all keen on it, so is thinking maybe she's not ready for weaning yet (she's nigh on 6 months). Hmm, maybe it's just that baby rice is .

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