The 7 Best High Chairs for Babies

When you have a new little one on the way, you start making a lot of changes. It might be re-arranging the furniture to make room for a new crib, baby books, and toys. You’ll be baby proofing your outlets and figuring out how to keep dangerous objects out of reach.

Of course, you’re also looking for a good high chair. Your baby might not need a special high chair right away, but they’ll need one only a few months after birth. You want to get the best for your baby, and no wonder.

After all, your child will spend a lot of their early life sitting in their high chair. You need something safe, that’s comfortable, that’s easy for you to care for, and that fits your budget.

This guide will help you fit those needs. We’ve chosen some of the best and safest high chairs in a range of different prices, functionalities, and other features so that you can find a great fit for you, your family, and your new baby.

We’ll discuss the pros and cons of these chairs in some detail. But, beyond the list we provide, we’ll also provide a short buying guide. Bringing a baby home is an overwhelming and wonderful time. We want to arm you with the information you need so that you can spend more time with your little one and less time worrying about having the right equipment.

Bargain
Fisher-Price SpaceSaver High Chair
4.4/5.0
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Best Value
Inglesina Fast Table Chair
4.7/5.0
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Top Pick
Peg Perego Siesta High Chair with Splat Matt
4.9/5.0
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High Chair Comparison Chart

The High Chairs

1. Peg Perego Siesta High Chair with Splat Matt – Top Pick

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Editor’s Rating: 4.9

Normally, when we pick our top pick product it isn’t one of the more premium options on our list. That’s because we’re looking for a combination of value and function. That means we look for items with superior performance, reasonable price for the function of the item, and great durability.

For high chairs, we’re considering things like how safe the chair is, how easy it is to clean, whether to not it’s portable or collapsible and how long your child is likely to be able to use the chair.

Despite the Siesta High Chair being one of the more premium options on our list, we also found that it really offered good value for the money.

This is a high chair that will be with your child through all the early years of their life. It’s fully reclinable, which means that it can be set up for your infant to take a nap while you do dishes or cook dinner, and it can be used for bottle feeding early on.

As your child grows, it has 9 different recline settings to help keep them safe and comfortable at all times. The chair also can become a toddler chair so that you can use it for longer. So long as the seat itself is comfortable for your child, you’ll be able to use this high chair.

It’s also durable enough that, if you have a growing family, you’ll be able to pass this chair down to future children as well. And when you’re done, it will probably still be in good enough condition to give to a friend or family member when they’re getting ready to have a child of their own.

The chair is fully collapsible, which is an important consideration if you need to travel with your high chair or have limited space at home.

The wheels on the bottom of the chair makes it easy to move around your home. The wheels also have a locking feature to help keep your little one safe when they’re in the chair.

The chair does have one downside. While it’s easy to clean, many users have noted that the tray table can be difficult to remove at times. That’s not a huge downside when it comes to a chair with so many benefits. But, it does mean that this chair might be a little less friendly to parents, even as it keeps your child especially safe.

The chair is available in several different colors and often comes with one of several different accessories to add to the overall value of the chair.

*Note: We’ve spent extra time on this chair as our top pick. We will not be spending as much time on the chairs to follow.

2. OXO Tot Sprout High Chair

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Editor’s Rating: 4.6

The OXO Tot Sprout is a high chair that looks and works a little more like a traditional high hair. It’s cushion and wood color are both customizable, so you can pick a chair that looks a little more like the rest of your home décor.

This is a very safe chair, but also a very purpose-built chair. It works well for babies as soon as they are ready for a high chair, usually between 3 and 6 months old.

Once your child is older than three years old, the chair converts into a good youth chair to ease the transition between a high chair and an adult dining chair, without needing an additional booster seat.

The 5 point harness and easy clean tray will help keep your child safer through all the wiggles, stretches, and impatient meals that come with growing up.

*This chair would be rated higher, because of its incredible safety and good design principles, except that it’s not easily stored or moved.

3. Inglesina Fast Table Chair – Best Value

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Editor’s Rating: 4.7

This high chair is a little different and isn’t a true high chair at all. Instead, this is a table chair. It’s completely portable, and you set it up by attaching it directly to your table.

That way, your child gets used to sharing the table from day one. There’s also no turnover risk since they won’t be able to kick or stretch in a way that overbalances this chair, the support system doesn’t make that possible.

It’s also a fully washable design, so you’ll just stick it in the washing machine to wash the whole chair. As long as you wipe off your table between uses, you’ll be good to go.

Best of all, this is a chair that can come with you to grandparent’s houses, on vacation, and even to many restaurants. The no-damage grip design means that you’ll be able to use this chair on tables without worrying about causing problems.

This chair makes our best value rating because it’s one of the most convenient options, it’s highly affordable, and the design is very safe. This is a good chair to buy as a portable option, or even as your primary highchair solution. Best of all, it’s incredibly affordable.

4. Graco Table2Table Premier Fold 7 in 1 Convertible High Chair

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Editor’s Rating: 4.7

This is a good option for parents who are looking for a great high chair with a slightly smaller price tag. While it’s not so affordable as to make our best value or best bargain ratings, it’s very close. This chair might have gotten our best value were it not for the low price and high utility of the Inglesina Fast Table Chair.

This isn’t a table chair though, it’s a traditional baby high chair.

But, for a middle road price for a high chair, it also offers 7 different growth stages. This one chair will grow and change with your child. As your child grows this chair will convert into a portable booster seat, and later into a youth chair and table combination that can seat two children.

The tray is designed to make serving food easier, without making clean up any more difficult. The tray is easy to wash with soap and water. It’s a 5-height chair, fully collapsible, and has a few color options for parents to customize.

5. JOOVY Foodoo High Chair

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Editor’s Rating: 4.4

This is another mid-range option that has a lot of features and functionality that help it stand out from the back. With reclining features and a safety harness, this high chair is safe for newborns and bottle-fed babies, as well as for toddlers up to 50 lbs.

This design is a little different, more streamlined than many of the alternatives. That means it folds up a little smaller. It is a fairly heavy chair, at the same time, which is important to add stability to the chair.

The leatherette cushion is easy to clean. Not machine washable, but it can be wiped down with soap and water or disinfecting wipes.

5 different seat positions and 8 different chair heights make this a flexible option, suited to most table styles and a wide range of ages.

6. Fisher-Price SpaceSaver High Chair – Best Bargain

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Editor’s Rating: 4.4

For our best bargain pick, we never look for just the cheapest or most affordable option. Instead, we’re looking for a very affordable product that performs more like one of the most expensive options.

In this case, we’re back to a familiar and favorite company when it comes to all things baby. Fisher-Price’s SpaceSaver is a great high chair that’s also more affordable than many on the market.

This chair is a little different since it isn’t a free-standing chair. Instead, it’s a chair that’s designed to strap on to your current dining chairs or act as a free-standing chair on the ground. That means you have much less fall risk with this chair since it either has the stability of a full-size chair or is close to the ground and hard to tip.

The tray is also designed to help prevent large messes by keeping food and drinks on the tray. Even the messiest eaters will create a little less chaos with this deep tray design.

The last feature we really want to highlight is the fact that the tray can be stored on the back of the chair when it’s not in use.

7. Tripp Trapp by Stokke Adjustable Baby High Chair

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Editor’s Rating: 4.5

The last high chair we’re going to review, this is another streamlined design with a lot of flexibility built into the design in multiple layers.

This high chair is a solid color, and available in a variety of color options. It’s an incredibly solid design and is actually rated to be able to support the weight of most adults. The footrest is also adjustable, with different settings all the way down the chair’s legs. That makes it suitable for children much longer than many high chairs.

It’s also a more attractive design than many, fitting in with kitchen décor.

However, this chair isn’t suitable for children who aren’t ready to sit upright on their own, supporting their own head.