Hippo Chair

My friends, I introduce you to the Hippo Chair. I don’t remember who told me about this, but I remember hearing about it with my first son and buying it immediately. We are still using the same chair in great condition with my third son.

I bought this portable hook-on chair, not for my home, but for everywhere BUT home. I was disgusted on a regular basis at the high chairs I encountered at restaurants. I knew they weren’t cleaned between uses and I spent too much time wiping high chairs down in restaurants…they should have paid me for my cleaning prowess. Highchairs in restaurants have caked-on food, layers of dried slobber, and who-knows-what-else.  On top of cleanliness, I found that many industrial high chairs weren’t very safe for my babies.  They could slide out, slide through, or even climb out, as the seat belts never seemed to be functioning.  I couldn’t take it anymore! So, the Hippo Chair entered our family.

There are certainly pros and cons to this chair, but the pros outweigh the cons for our purposes. It does take extra hands to put the seat on the table….a set to hold baby and a set to attach the chair. We also don’t take the chair apart and return it to its bag. I just fold it up and throw it in the back of our car so we have it on the road at all times. We sometimes get weird looks as we carry in our own chair to the restaurant, but more often than not, our meals are kindly interrupted by admiring parents asking us where we got our cool chair.

I amcertain I have increased Chicco sales of the Hippo Chair single-handedly.  On top of that, I am no longer squeamish about putting my child in restaurant high chair.  It’s always clean, safe and fits my baby perfectly.  Amen! and Amen!