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MAGGOTS INSIDE CHAIR! Cannot clean where food falls into chair.
So I am shocked to see that no one else has encountered this problem! Such a terrible design flaw.
When they left a gaping hole in the seat of a high chair, one would assume there is an easy and convenient way to clean the inside of it. Wrong. You have to take the entire high chair apart! So, not only am I unable to clean the strap that is used to buckle my son in, food falls through the hole between his legs and sits there. When I notice there was a smell coming from the high chair, I found that I couldn't get to the source without taking the entire high chair apart. 15 screws later, I open up my son's high chair and found maggots living inside of it, feeding off a piece of food that had been pushed down there through the hole where the strap is. What a terrible design feature! If you are going to make a high chair with a hole in the seat, please, geniuses @ ingenuity - where did you hope that food/water/etc would go? Disappear?
Anyway, the manufacturer said to keep the chair free of moisture and food debris and make sure to keep it out of warm environments. Haha! Seriously? I live in Florida and we are talking about actual babies here. Babies who think it's fun to shove food in any crevice, babies who are learning to feed themselves, spilling drinks and making messes. It does not matter how clean you keep the outside of the chair if food can fall down INSIDE the high chair and there is no way to clean it without busting out a drill and two different sized screw drivers. This horrible design provides the perfect breeding ground for nasty maggots and flies. Sick. Pictures and videos for proof - sorry, they are gross but everyone should be aware of this!!
They said they would give me another high chair, but what good does that do? Give me another nasty high chair that has the same issue? No thanks. In order to receive a refund, I had to cut the seat cover in half, mark X's all over the high chair, send them pictures, and then they will send me a check in the mail for the current retail value.
It is SO gross. Every time I look at my son's first birthday pictures of him with his smash cake sitting in a high chair that has maggots inside of it, it infuriates me! Do not buy this chair. The birthday pic is the day before I found the maggots, so you can see it's not like we are dirty people.
January 2017 · Baby Products