Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: The Original Easy Seat Portable High Chair
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In waaay Before Times (as in before our second kid), we took our 16-month old daughter to Paris. Paris is great for babies — the food was perfect (she ate lots of cheese omelettes, bread, and soup) and everyone was so helpful. But, unlike here, high chairs (and changing tables) are hard to find.
So, we brought something similar to this portable high chair. It fits easily in a diaper bag or backpack, is easy to use (just slip the back of a chair, and tighten and click the tether strap), and features a five-point safety harness. It’s also machine washable, since babies are not tidiest diners. It was better than having our daughter sit on our laps for every meal.
It’s perfect for babies (and toddlers) on the go who are comfortable sitting up.
The Original Easy Seat Portable High Chair is $24.99 at Amazon. In addition to the gray chevron pattern, it comes in a few other patterns for the same price.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I know this has been asked before but tips on telling a 7 and 5 year old their grandmother died? I don’t have the energy to search. They understand she was quite old – unfortunately they hadn’t gotten to visit her since pre-COVID.
Any good space/planet book recs for the birthday list? Peak elder millenial parenting, got this question last week “Mummy, when will Pluto become a proper planet?”
It’s mosquito season in the SEUS and my 18 month toddler is a scratcher. He pulls off any bandaids we put on. Cortisone helps but doesn’t keep him from scratching. With pants he just pulls up the leg and scratches. The last one got infected and we’ve got a new one that is on its way to that. Ideas on how to keep a bandaid on him or to prevent the scratching?
Is it normal for a 3-4 year old to not really have any specific friends? My kiddo is in full time daycares and her teachers don’t seem to have any concerns about her behavior at school, but she can’t identify any kids she’s friends with and just tells me she plays with everyone in her class. No other families have reached out to us, which makes me think other kids aren’t identifying her as a friend to their parents either. With Covid there aren’t birthday parties (at least not that we’ve been invited to) or casual conversations at drop-off, and I just don’t really know how much she should be developing “close” friendships at this age.
Need a morale boost, advice, anything.
My boss gave me some feedback yesterday about not being at the top of my license/role. We’re going to work on improvements monthly-ish, no formal HR involvement, and she will report out progress to our SVP in ~6 months. Worst case, I’d be reclassified/demoted, but she doesn’t think it will come to that. She thinks it’s more course correction than anything else. I like my job a lot. It’s a LOT of work, and while I accepted the feedback, I also work all the time so this was frustrating (but it’s probably time to work smarter vs. harder).
I got back from Mat Leave with #2 in April. I lost a beloved parent in November (and gave birth a month later). Last year I almost lost my marriage. And we also lost a beloved family pet. This is in addition to the sh*tstorm that was 2020. I just cannot.
We’re renovating bathrooms in a house with a 6,4 and 2 year old. Renovation will probably last a year. We’re also having a baby so will likely have a tub in baby’s room, would those of you with older kids even bother with tubs elsewhere or just go showers? At the moment they kind of go back and forth in their shower/tub combo. But we also throw a couple in the bath at the same time and I expect that phase will be short-lived as well!
Travel q somewhat related to this product. Any recommendations for privacy when your kid sleeps in a pack n play in your room during trips? When we stayed with my in-laws a couple months ago, my son would not sleep with us in the room. He wanted to play all night. Unfortunately with the setup of their house, we can’t put him in a closet or bathroom. The only other option would be a hallway which is equally disruptive.
I’m eyeing the slumberpod, but they are backordered. The next time we stay with them, he will be about 14 months and can already stand up.
Reporting back from our Great Lakes trip! Airbnb townhouse was clutch, because we had a living room to hang out in. Unfortunately we did not have the best weather (unseasonably cold some days, such as a high of 63 degrees, sorry westerners to rub that in, and rainy some days) so we didn’t get much great beach time, but did a lot of small things and walked around, which was nice! For the person asking what we are so happy we brought: whoever suggested black garbage bags and painters tape was a genius; we did a clip on high chair that we borrowed from a family member that was clutch for the house, we brought a number of books (my LO loves books), just small plastic toys, and the big thing was an inflatable (easy to pack) baby pool and some plastic balls in a bag that we put together to make a mini ball pit that entertained her for hours. We actually didn’t bring anything that we did not use (other than beach tent, see weather above). The one thing I wish I would have done better is to have contingency plans for rainy days – most of our plans were outdoor, and in the town we were in a lot of indoor places were closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (the days with bad weather) so we spent more time than we should have figuring out what we could do.
Aw we went to Paris when our daughter was the same age. Our last international trip BC. :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DanielTigerConspiracy/ is hilarious if you haven’t seen it. My husband sent it to me this morning and we’ve been laughing for a solid half hour.