HighchairsHighchairs safely seat your baby at meal times. By placing the highchair at the family table – at the same level as everyone else – you also help develop your baby’s eating and social skills. Our highchairs are designed with rounded edges, a wide, stable base and a safety belt. IKEA FAMILY products & offersIKEA has issued a safety alert over thousands of highchairs sold in Britain after three children fell out and hurt themselves.The Swedish furniture store is warning customers about the £10.99 ‘Antilop’ chair because its harnesses can open unexpectedly.The British alert is part of a product recall across Europe which affects 1.2million chairs. Recalled: The Antilop high chair - from supplier #17389 and production date 0607-0911 - that has a faulty safety beltIkea says it has received eight reports of the safety belts opening, including three which led to minor injuries from falls. Some 60,438 of the Chinese-made highchairs were sold in Britain between January 2007 and September last year.
In a statement, the company said: ‘The highchair belt can open unexpectedly in use, creating a fall hazard. ‘Ikea has received eight reports of belt opening, including three resulting in minor injury when a child fell from the highchair. ‘No other highchairs are affected. Ikea apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.’ The chair, which comes in red, blue and white, is plastic and sits on four metal legs and is fitted with a grey belt and clasp. The recall only relates to belts on those chairs made between July 2006 and November 2009 which are stamped with the supplier number 17389 beneath the seat. The company says replacement belts will be issued, free of charge, at their stores’ returns departments. Apologies: Ikea has asked customers with affected high chairs to visit one of their stores or call customer services Two days ago, a contributor to the Mumsnet parenting website highlighted how her young son had managed to
get out of his belt. She wrote: ‘OK, so anyone know how to keep a climbing baby in the Antilop highchair? ‘There doesn’t seem to be any way to fit a five-point harness, went to get a cloth earlier and came back to find DS had wriggled out from the lap belt (I do tighten it but it loosens itself) and was sitting on the tray with his back to me!’ An earlier post stated: ‘Babybod has turned into an escapologist and no matter how tight the strap on the Antilop is, he wriggles out. Do I just need to buy superglue?!’ Last night an Ikea spokesman said: ‘Customers are advised to contact us for an exchange or refund if they have bought the faulty product.’ View all search results Welcome to the table, baby! High chairs safely seat your baby at meal times. By placing the high chair at the family table – at the same level as everyone else – you also help develop your baby’s eating and social skills. of high chairs are designed with rounded edges, a wide, stable base and a safety belt.
Highchair with safety belt Supporting cushion and coverIf there's one thing Ikea's famous for, it's meatballs. If there's two things, it's cheap, stylish furniture. Value engineering the hell out that furniture year in and year out, to squeeze every possible penny of profit out of a $20 high chair. And when they go too far, the CPSC steps in to help. And so Ikea has recalled 169,000 Antilop high chairs made between 2006-10, after at least eight reports of kids falling out of the safety straps. Stronger replacement straps are available from the retailer, which are presumably like the ones used since Jan 2010? If the straps from 2010 onwards are stronger and hence, unaffected, did it really take two years for this issue to work its way through the system? The CPSC's recall notice says Ikea's incident reports are "worldwide," not [just] in the US. But presumably, the company has not reporting Antilop buckle incidents in Belgium to the US government. So there were enough incidents reported to Ikea before 2010 to prompt the company to strengthen the strap/buckle.
But none that triggered a US recall. Does that mean Ikea and the CPSC had a 2+ year back-and-forth over whether to recall the high chair, which babies are falling out of? Given the way the CPSC has gone after dropside cribs and finger-chopping umbrella strollers, I doubt it. Here's what I think happened: two US consumers filed complaints about the Antilop buckle on the CPSC's SaferProducts.gov database, which prompted an investigation, which revealed other incidents and the company's design change, which led to the recall. Check out this parent's complaint, filed in July 2011: saying that her 2.5yo pulled the buckle off of their c.2009 Antilop high chair. Ikea's official response to both was to "contact IKEA customer service. And four months later--including the holidays--there's a recall. So the public database is having a direct effect. Put that on your salmon and smoke it. IKEA Recalls to Repair High Chairs Due to Fall Hazard [cpsc, thanks dt reader melanie] IKEA HighchairsHighchairs safely seat your baby at meal times.
Bar tables & chairsBar tables and chairs are perfect for giving meals a little lift. We have chairs and stools at the right height for our bar tables and lower ones to use at kitchen worktops and islands. These let your guests or family keep you company so you don’t miss out on any news while you’re chopping the carrots. (And maybe you can get them to help.) Bar tables & chairsFor someone who doesn't live within the gravitational pull of an IKEA, visiting the store can be an epiphany. Sometimes, it can even break through your own IKEA fatigue and cause you to take a fresh look at the stuff you've blocked out of your mind. This happened when my mother came to town, and I had to return some unnecessary metal bracket we didn't use for a spice rack. There are two totally pared down, goodlooking highchairs, each of which costs less than the cushion set of a Stokke Kinderzeat. (Which we just got. And love, don't get me wrong, but I'm just saying...) Now Grandma has one, and Grammy has the other.
First is the Antilop, which is available online with white legs (for $12.99!), but looks better with the instore-only silver legs (only two bucks more, $14.99). This is also the high chair in the IKEA cafe. The other is the Gulliver ($39.99, in stores), made of beech and beech ply. Both chairs can take trays, but I think they work just as well when they're pulled up to the table. And when the kid outgrows them, you can put the chairs on the curb, where a weird, trenchcoated Swede will mock them Related: Where all the vintage Kinderzeats at? Vintage (seriously) IKEA High Chair [dt] The Spike Jonze ad that almost makes Ikea cool [Slate] Daddy Types is published by Greg Allen with the help of readers like you. Got tips, advice, questions, and suggestions? greg [at] daddytypes [dot] com Join the [eventual] Daddy Types mailing list! Bizarre Childrens Book Contest | DT Childrens Book Review Contest | gear not strollers | nyc men's room changing tables |