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.