Insight on high chairs

A semi-random thought on high chairs, and recommendations for detachable trays, versus fixed. If you've already bought high chairs, then this is a forewarning; if not, then you can use it to guide your purchasing decision.

Because we already had a high chair from our first child, we bought the second one separately. Thus, it's a completely different style: one has a detachable tray, whereas the other one is permanently mounted. So, we have one of each style.

One of the boys is quite the climber. He hangs on to (his full body weight, feet dangling off the ground) counter edges, table edges, etc. Has hung off the tray of the high chair (the one with the detachable tray) so much that he's broken the "runners" underneath the tray -- the ones that lock it to the armrests. So in that respect, the high chair with the "permanently connected" tray is better.

BUT -- there have been occasions where the boys have made such a mess on the tray that I've just taken the whole thing to the sink. With the tray that's permanently connected, you can't do that...

(For what it's worth: twice, one of the boys has made such a mess -- vomit, I believe -- that I've taken the whole high chair and just put it in the shower!)


--GG