Eddie Bauer high chair anyone?

[janine]

I like the look of a wood chair, but don't want to spend a fortune (Stokke,etc). I think the EB might make sense for us but the reviews are so-so. Does anyone have it?

[rin]

No personal experience with the Eddie Bauer (we considered it and were worried by all the reviews about how hard it was to clean), but what about the Keekaroo? We have one, and love it. We never got the infant insert/padding, and just used it without from probably a year or so on, but even with all the infant insert stuff it's way cheaper than the Tripp Trapp, and I think it looks even nicer than the Eddie Bauer one, plus it's got the advantage of being usable well into childhood, which the Eddie Bauer one doesn't.

[crl]

We had the EB one eons ago with older ds. I liked it fine, but had nothing really to compare it to. I did ditch the padding fairly early on. Ds went through a phase of wanting me to put him in and out of it a million bazillion times a day and we ended up buying a kinderzeat (predecessor to the Tripp trapp) so he could climb up and down himself. This time I decided to skip straight to the Tripp trapp for dd.

Catherine

[janine]

Originally Posted by crl

We had the EB one eons ago with older ds. I liked it fine, but had nothing really to compare it to. I did ditch the padding fairly early on. Ds went through a phase of wanting me to put him in and out of it a million bazillion times a day and we ended up buying a kinderzeat (predecessor to the Tripp trapp) so he could climb up and down himself. This time I decided to skip straight to the Tripp trapp for dd.

Catherine

Thanks - how is the Tripp Trapp comparing to the EB?

[janine]

Originally Posted by rin

No personal experience with the Eddie Bauer (we considered it and were worried by all the reviews about how hard it was to clean), but what about the Keekaroo? We have one, and love it. We never got the infant insert/padding, and just used it without from probably a year or so on, but even with all the infant insert stuff it's way cheaper than the Tripp Trapp, and I think it looks even nicer than the Eddie Bauer one, plus it's got the advantage of being usable well into childhood, which the Eddie Bauer one doesn't.

Thanks - I'll take a look @ the Keekaroo

[NCGrandma]

Another vote for the Keekaroo. I ordered it for DGD2 when she was 6 mo old, and finally got to see it 'in action' during a recent visit. My DGD2 is now almost 9 months old and has been using it constantly.

The things I like about it:

• It looks like regular furniture rather than baby gear -- I got the darker wood finish and it blends right in with their dining room.
• Like the Tripp Trapp, it is adjustable and can be used for years, but is a good bit cheaper.
• The infant insert looks very comfy and supportive -- it's like a Bumbo made to fit the high chair.
• The tray seems easy to remove/adjust (I could never master the old Graco they had for DGD1), and has a snap-on plastic liner that's easy to clean.

The thing that could be better...:

• The holes that the seat belt threads through, in the infant insert, are large enough that food can fall through. The first time I removed the insert for cleaning, I was surprised at how much was there, but it was easy to remove/clean/re-insert. Whenever DGD2 outgrows the need for the baby insert, this shouldn't be an issue, and in the meantime, the pluses definitely outweigh the minuses.

DGD2 isn't old enough to really test the stability of the Keekaroo, but it seems quite stable. By the way, this seems to be one of those items whose price is the same almost everywhere. When I ordered it, Sears was having a very small sale on it, but at least I got a few Sears rewards points...