The highchair I was seven months pregnant when I first attended a baby safety class. The leader began by showing newspaper articles and statistics of children injured or killed by falling out of highchairs. I was sitting next to my rich friend. She wrote out a check, no problem. I knew we didn’t have the money but my baby was not going to suffer; I put ours on the Visa. My husband nearly had a baby of his own when I told him the news. I explained that the feeding table was also a bathtub, swing and chalkboard. I rationalized, “We will have it forever. We’ll pass it on to our grandchildren.” The Babee Tenda served us well for our first child. We never did use the swing. By the time our second child came along, the bathtub was torn and no amount of scrubbing could sanitize the table. We still use it as a toddler table but I don’t think our grandchildren will see it. Still, they will probably hear about the $400 highchair. Catherine Busam |
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