Travel Highchair - in the sale!

We got this little beauty on offer at Asda for just £15! I've been on the look out for a travel highchair for a while, our standard highchair is massive, it takes up loads of space and can't be pulled up to the table because it has a big, clunky fixed tray. I'm not complaining too much as it was a free hand-me-down and it's served us well for over a year! However now C-bear is getting bigger, I like the idea of getting him used to sitting at the table and this little chair seems like the next natural step. He can still be strapped in and safe, but it attaches to a dining chair so he feels like he's part of the family at the table.

It also packs down into a smallish carry bag so can be taken out with us when we visit family and friends and (more importantly) the wedding venue only has 6 highchairs and we've got 8 toddlers attending, so the first time we use it properly will be between Mama and Daddy bear at the top table!

What pram?

I recently heard that a friend is pregnant and it got me thinking. If I was to do it all again, as in have a first baby rather then a second (!), what would I do differently? And my first thought was prams! I did tons of research before buying ours but had no idea really what to get, having had no experience of prams, buggies or pushchairs since I was in them 30 years ago! So when I made my decision, I reckoned I'd made the best choice and I was happy, but for city living I think where I went wrong was size.

We got a Pliko Pramette in grey polka dots, and I loved it (I still do) The info on the Mamas and Papas website says:

Pliko Pramette Polka

The Pliko Pramette is the original and the lightest pramette. Transforms from a pram into a pushchair without adding or taking anything away, making life easier for you as a parent and making every moment with your baby one to enjoy.

And it was great that it did so much, no separates for us, our Travel System was a pram, pushchair and car seat all in one. It was much smaller then what I remembered from the 80s, yet still safe and secure for a newborn. But now I've seen a lot of my friends prams, I think the crucial bit of advice I was missing was that size doesn't matter!

Sola

Long story short if I was to do it again I'd go with a Sola. When I first did the research I dismissed it because it wasn't a pram, but actually the additional carry cot works just like a pram, and for the life of the system, the pushchair part is brilliant. It also faces both forward and backwards as a pushchair which the Pliko didn't do. Small and light (perfect for buses and trains), bright and cheerful I love this little pushchair, and it's what I'd recommend to anyone starting out!