Mocka wooden highchair

Hi just wondering if anyone has this highchair?
If so what do you think of it?

Pros? Cons?

Our DS is 8 months old so I'm not sure if it's too late to get him a highchair (we have been using a bumbo so far) or if it would just be easier to get him a wee table/chairs set?

I looked through there and most of them are for the plastic highchair... Which we aren't so keen on. Just want to know more about the wooden one.

Also what are the legs like on it? I've heard a few people say the 'splay' on the bottom of their high chair is quite big and the legs always seem to be in the way?

And silly me-thought I was putting this in the product reviews piece Oops!

I love it MC and I'll definitely be getting another one for number 2.

The leg splay on their plastic one is huge - not on the wooden one. The legs in fact take up only slightly more than the the same space of a normal chair.

Pro's; It's mega adjustable so can always sit at a good height which is really important if you want your little one to feed themselves. I love the look of it. I like that when they're older you can take the tray off and just push it up to the proper table like a normal chair. It's really solid and steady. Kiara tries to climb up it and it doesn't move at all.

Cons; It's wood so it can scratch (eg when someone stabs it repeatedly with a fork). There's no lip on the child side of the tray so it's easy to sweep food onto their lap/floor. But this also makes it easier for them to reach food to feed themselves so make up your own mind whether that's a good or a bad thing. Some people have said it's harder to clean than a plastic one. I haven't found this at all (although I did oil the table slightly). In fact I've found it far easier to clean than the plastic ones, particularly the seat and footrest areas.

It comes with the cushions but I ditched them early or you end up washing them every day. I definitely also wouldn't buy the harness they sell to go with it. It barely fits it and is a generic one anyway that you could get from any baby shop.

Picopico also do a very similar chair (my MIL has one), and I think there's another company as well. They're all very similar. I'd just go on price.

ETA; Nowhere near too late MC. Kiara still uses hers and will for ages. That's the advantage of the adjustablity and the removable tray. I really like the fact she sits with us at the table for meals rather than separate at a 'little person's table'.

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One thing I thought about them is the bum piece doesn't look very big, kinda gives me the impression of 'perching' on the edge of a seat? Or is it not so much like this IRL?

Also I wasn't too sure if I picked it up wrong, but can you adjust the height of both the seat and foot rests? But as I said, I might have picked that up wrong? (Just thinking ahead to when hes bigger etc)

Does it matter if the tray piece isn't adjustable inwards? As in closer to baby? Mum has a el cheapo off trademe highchair and we find its handy being able to push the tray in closer (although he does have to sit on a towel to be tall enough... and hes not short!)

Ideally we'll be using it on the kitchen table, but at the moment we don't have a 'real' table (only a very, very small one) so would be using the tray in the meantime (until we go shopping!!!!)

We have a waterblaster if it gets that bad

Is it still safe enough without a harness? I guess I'm just a little paranoid of him slipping down under the tray while I'm not looking! (Stupid huh?!)

Interesting about the harness we haven't got one and we were just about to order two because they have started to twist themselves around in the chair.

Do you still use the mocka harness thesaff or have you found something better somewere else?

I keep my eye on them and don't leave the room at all when they are in the chairs. Usually they are happily occupied eating and it hasn't occurred to them to climb out but they have just started to twist around in the last couple of days.

I don't use the harness jules because my gal is a very happy eater and rarely tries to get out of her seat. But we do have the harness and I suspect there will come a time that we'll need it. But just to re-iterate; the harness is not a 'Mocka' brand, nor is it designed for the Mocka chair. It's just a random harness that you could get at the Warehouse/Farmers/Babycity etc. Not bagging Mocka at all (I love their stuff) but I don't think it'd be worth just ordering that from them unless you were buying other stuff.

Here you go - this is the one they sell...harness

Oh and MC I can take some photos of Kiara in hers showing the bum and foot rests etc if you want?

ETA; Sally - that is the Mocka one (I was all excited about the removable tray but it even says it's the mocka one). The 'removable' tray I think just means you can unscrew it and take it off when you don't want to use it anymore.

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Shop arouind - I got he harness free with mne. I used it a bit early on, mainly to help keep him upright!

It does hurt when you stub your toe on the back of the legs, but the same goes for any chair.

DS loves his - we took the tray off just a month back, and he loves siting up at the table with us, as he has done all along. He has a wee table and chairs where he used to have morning tea, but now he takes himself off to the table.

Only problems - the buckle broke (after a year's use), he learned the hard way not to jam his fingers under the tray (keep the strap tight Mum!), and believe it or not it is possible for a toddler in a temper to push himself over backwards in it!

Sorry - I actually think it is this one...

Tray slides off....
It looks like Skep do another one too, which, like the mocka, has a flip tray (It's on the menu page of the baby online website...)

Hope that helps :-) (I'll ask my friend when I see her next)

I have a mocka one and love it, i have my toddler in that one and the baby sits in an Ikea one cos he does slip down when i've put him in it. You would need a harness i think if you have a wriggler.

It's as easy as the plastic Ikea one to keep clean and i don't find that feet stick out at all. Both bum and footrests are adjustable. We don't actually use the tray very often, mostly have it pushed up against the table which is great for my almost 3 yo.

My friend has a different brand one and hers is crap tbh, flimsy and not as good quality. You get what you pay for in the end i think. I got mine second hand off tme. I'd rather buy good quality second hand then new crap!

Mocka have 20% off everything till the 11 March. Makes them cheaper than any alternative.