thread: What age when your toddler stopped using Ikea high chair?

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  1. #1
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    What age when your toddler stopped using Ikea high chair?

    Hi, DD2 (19 mths) has developed an aversion to sitting in the high chair because she wants to sit up at the table with the family. BUT her highchair handles are too high to slide under the table. So we're thinking about the cheap fix of getting an Ikea highchair (without tray) in the hope that we can just slide it under the table like a regular chair.

    BUT...just wondering how they go size-wise with a bigger toddler. Would we be better off getting a junior-style chair instead? She still needs restraining (strapping in) for at least the next few months (if only to save my sanity at dinner time).

    What have you done?

    PS don't be posting be about all your fabulous Trip Traps etc...after CHEAP solutions.

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    Dec 2007
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    I would say the IKEA chair would be great. Depends how high your table is though. I'd say she wouldn't have a problem fitting in there - the leg holes are huge.

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    Mel do you have an Ikea high chair? Can i please trouble you to measure from the ground to the top of the front part of the seat (It has to fit under my table which is nearly 71cm).

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    Approximately 73 cm

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    Thanks so much but OUCH! That's not going to fit!! Back to the drawing board...

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    Dec 2007
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    Yeah. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!!!!!

    How about a chair that fits on just a dining room chair and you strap it to the seat? I have one here that we've never used, but might cost heaps to send it to you.