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Baby Trend
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on Thursday, September 23rd, 2004 at 12:05 pm
High Chair Warning
When you start buying things for your baby you take care in choosing the right things. You comparison shop, shop for convenience of use, price and safety. Sometimes what you think is the perfect buy turns into a real pain. Like my Baby Trend chair.
My baby trendhigh chair , has not only become a one hand release, it’s a one foot release.
Observe:
The idea is to make it easier for the parent to take off the tray, hand under, pull the lever forward and pull off the tray. However, Conor discovered completely by accident that by lifting his leg up and kicking the lever on the baby trend high chair it pushes forward notch by notch. One hefty kicked has the tray flying off. The little barrier you see before the lever is useless.
He’s not able to do this everytime, but spends a good part of feeding time trying and is always able to move it 2 notches.
Of course the child thinks it’s hilarious, but it’s made feeding time a royal pain in the butt, especially since at 15 months old he’s feeding himself finger foods. No longer can I place bits of sandwiches on his tray and a juice cup then eat my own food, because one swift kick the tray on the baby trend high chair , and it’s contents land on the floor. He spends most of the time trying to kick the tray off than he does eating.
Like the highchair I bought for my first son, which was not made by baby trend, I thought this was a one time buy, yet because of what I see as a design flaw in my Baby Trend highchair, it looks like I’m going to be heading out to babes r us within the next week to purchase a safer version.
It’s also a lawsuit waiting to happen. Not everyone straps the child in, and many will go about household chores while the child is in the highchair. It doesn’t take that long to fall out of a chair.
REMEMBER – always strap your child in and don’t leave him/her unattended.
Don’t take the advice from this website …convenient feeding while mom is cooking – right but don’t pay attention to what you’re doing at the stove because your child might be climbing out of the seat on the baby trend high chair.
UPDATE september 29th – Still no response from baby trend with by e-mail or phone call.
Filed under Personal, Photo Life | Comments (6)6 Responses to “Baby Trend”
I remember my older son’s highchair. I had the same problem and that was almost 14 years ago. The only thing that some companies do now differently, is put a little tray for you to slide them into in the chair, before the outer tray goes on. So they’re sitting in more of an enclosed seat. Still don’t stop them from hitting that thing with their feet and tipping over the tray though. I agree. It was a puta then and it still is. That one handed thing…I never used it anyway!!! LOL
Note that, thanks to their disclaimers (aka ‘the manual’), they likely can’t lose a lawsuit because someone trusted the tray instead of strapping in their baby.
Anyway, if you are looking for a replacement, check out the Graco high chairs. They have one-hand adjustment, but not removal. Also, you need to press the one-hand adjustment ‘in’ (towards the baby) to release it, so it would take a lot more dexterity (pulling in on the button with a foot while simultaneously pushing out with the hands) for the baby to release the tray.
If someone can sue and Win a lawsuit against Mc Donalds because their coffee was to hot, I think baby trend best make sure that disclaimer is air tight.
Then you have this peachy story about a guy who left his baby in the car while he shopped. Baby dies, he’s blaming the car manufacturer because there was no alarm in the car to remind him he forgot his child.
Some parents are dummies and will always find someone else to blame for their mistakes. They treat the high chair as a way of Restraining the baby while they do housework. High Chair trays shouldn’t be that easy to remove by the child, the chair is suppose to be a safe easy way to feed your babe.
As you can see in the video, it’s not safe and my son is always strapped in. If I wasn’t close by, how long do you think it would take him to wriggle free of the straps once the tray was off? And it isn’t easy to feed a child when he keeps pushing the tray off.
As for a replacement, that will probably be inevitable as he’s to young to be put in a booster seat. It’s just annoying that I need a new high chair after only 9 months of use, it’s suppose to be good until at least the child reaches 40lb. Much has changed in the past 14 yrs Danna, this shouldn’t be a concern now.
They’re a big company unless more people complain about this they’re not going to do anything. However I thought you would have got at least a canned reply from them.
bahh ha ha! the coffee was hot enough to give the person 3rd degree burns almost instantaniously and you don’t think that is justified? They had their coffee hotter than the legal limit of the temperature of coffee. They were breaking the regulation…just so you know…
Right, thanks for picking up on the most important part of the entry.
And the moral to your story is, don’t drink hot coffee while you’re in a car regardless of whether you’re driving or a passenger. And if you’re clumsy enough to drop a cup of coffee over yourself (when the car was stopped or so say they), then perhaps one should stick with cold beverages. Oh wait, then they’d sue for frost bite…