I am leery of trendy, expensive items, but everything I have seen and read about these chairs makes them sound SO neat! There are no retailers in my area, so I would have to pay about $55 CDN plus $15-20 in shipping costs.
Have any of you owned these or heard anything about them?
(Our daughter is only 3.5 months and apparently these chairs are good until about 12-14 months).
What if her thighs get really chubby? The size of the leg openings is so…finite. My chubby son would have had a hard time being comfortable in that.
I didn’t quite get the point behind these. What’s wrong with the baby rolling around on the floor?
I think its so the little buggers don’t roll away
There’s no way my 7 month old would ever stay in one of those things. She’d topple it over and crawl out of it like she does with everything else. This point it’s easier just to let her roam wild on the floor and just redirect her from the electrical sockets.
Your kid will never stay in it. You might get a months use out of it.
Might.
My $.02
I have one, Kate is 5 months old and can’t sit up yet, but wants to. She hates not being able to see what is going on. It has taken her a bit to get used to the chair, but she is getting used to it and likes being able to be upright.
It helps support them sitting. I can’t see how they can topple over, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t.
I like it because so much of the early infant stuff is reclining and yet the regular seats, she isn’t big enough for or ends up sliding/slumping down in it.
The store around the corner sells them here for $45 US.
The foam is surprisingly bendy and her legs are a tad too small for the top, but fit fine in the rest, it just opens to allow her to get in.
I wasn’t able to get one for a while and bought a regular booster seat, I have to use an ace bandage to get her to sit up in it properly. Then again, she was premature and is a tad smaller than others her age, we use board games under her jumperoo (which she is just starting to like)
I don’t like them. Unlike conventional baby seat and even the Boppy, these chairs do exactly what they say - they completely support the baby in an upright position. But that means the baby isn’t developing core muscle strength and trunk mobility the way they do with more conventional chairs or being held by adults.
Much the way “walkers” lead to maldeveloped leg strength, these aids are nice in the short term, probably neutral if used very sparingly, but could potentially be harmful if used a lot. Babies are built to move and “designed” to do so in a very specific sequence. Mess with nature and nature messes back.
I don’t have one, but I have an 18 month old and I am very skeptical that he would have liked being in that seat after about 8 or nine months, and he was a late crawler and walker. A baby that wants to be mobile earlier would probably be done with it at about 6 months or so, that’s about when babies start sitting by themselves anyway. I just used a boppy when he wanted to sit up more, and to keep around him when he was in the sitting up but toppling over phase. I agree that it seems like if you used it too much, how would they learn to balance and sit themselves? Even an exersaucer lets them turn around and learn to center themselves better, and those are supposed to be used sparingly too.
I think it might be neat for a baby just about your age, but I don’t know if it’s worth the money for the amount of use it will get.