Why Your Baby’s High Chair Needs a Footrest

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Your baby’s feet resting flat on a solid footrest stabilizes their core and helps support a safe swallow. In this episode we’re looking at why the footrest is the most important safety feature that most high chairs don’t have…and how to DIY a footrest if your baby’s feet aren’t touching the footrest of your current high chair.

SUMMARY OF EPISODE

In this episode, I’m covering:

• Why your baby’s high chair needs a footrest…and why it probably doesn’t have one right now but how you can fix it

• How you can use portable high chairs and affix them to adult chairs to make a safe feeding setup

• Which high chairs come with portable high chairs and how to adjust the seat and footrest height for safe feeding

LINKS from episode

Links to content and products mentioned in this episode:

• Read: Favorite Portable High Chairs for Feeding on the Go: https://www.fortifiedfam.com/home/2020/9/3/favorite-portable-high-chairs-for-feeding-on-the-go

• Stokke Tripp Trapp High Chair on Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3l3Kalj 

• Nomi High Chair on Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3gPd6LU

ADDITIONAL podcast episodes

Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 92 - How to Choose a Safe Seat for Your Baby to Eat with Kirsti Vandraas https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/92 

• Episode 172 - High Chair Positioning: Reduce Choking Risk Using This One Simple Move with Jeff Durkee of Nomi High Chair https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/172 

• Episode 205 - High Chair Help: What if My Baby Won't Sit in the High Chair? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/205 

• Episode 261 - DIY High Chair Hacks for Safer Baby-Led Weaning https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/261 

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