Polly Progres5 Highchair

The Polly Progres5 covers five configurations from one frame: a reclined seat usable from birth (with the newborm cushion), an upright weaning highchair, a lower toddler chair, and a youth chair for use at the family table, plus a fully removable tray for cleaning. That range of stages makes it a genuinely flexible middle-ground option between a basic plastic highchair and a premium wooden one.

Against the Joie Mimzy Snacker in this category, the Polly Progres5 is bulkier and doesn't fold as compactly, but it offers more growth stages and a wipe-clean padded seat cover that's more comfortable for longer meals than the Snacker's simpler moulded seat. The Snacker's key advantage is its smaller footprint, which matters more in compact kitchens or smaller dining spaces.

The padded seat cover is removable and machine washable, which matters more than it sounds during the early weaning months when meals go everywhere; the trade-off is that it takes up more permanent floor space than a folding chair, since it isn't really designed to be stowed away between meals.