Nursing chair??

[Dee83]

Hi ladies,

I’m just after some opinions on getting a nursing chair for our nursery. When I had my first son 6 years ago we didn’t have one. His nursery was our smallest bedroom and we had just enough room for the cot, a wardrobe and chest of drawers. He has now moved to the bigger bedroom so our next baby will have the smaller room. I’m wondering whether it’s worth just having the cot and chest of drawers in there, without a wardrobe and instead having a nursing chair. My thinking behind this is that I am having a c-section and am hoping to breastfeed this time (I couldn’t with my son due to medication) so thought it might make it more comfortable having somewhere to sit specifically for feeding and it might be a more calming environment away from the hustle and bustle of family life downstairs.

My husband thinks that it won’t be used and that I will end up just sitting downstairs on the sofa. I read that it’s good to feed in the nursery though before naps etc?! I feel like this is all new to me again as it was so long ago that I had my son

What are you ladies planning on doing? Do you think I will miss not having a wardrobe for her clothes and for storage etc? Is a chair worth it, do you think it will get enough use?!

Thank you 😊

 

[candymycandy]

I was desperate for a chair with my lb but same as you he was in the box room so we could only fit a small armchair. I mostly missed the ability to rock for night wakenings generally as much as anything else. I’ve got a smaller chair that rocks from amazon this time, isn’t as comfy as a gliding chair but hoping will be ok. You will In all likelihood just nurse wherever is convenient at the time but I think they come into their own at night once out of your bedroom. Guess it’s whether you can adapt to having the baby stuff elsewhere? Could you maybe get some small drawers for the essentials?

 

[Dee83]

Thanks candymycandy. Well there would be room for a normal size chest of drawers in the nursery for her clothes etc but obvs no hanging space without a wardrobe.

We have a next to me crib to go in our room for the first 6 months so I imagine for night feeds I will just be feeding in our bed. It’s during the day and nap times I’m thinking about really. I mean would she have naps in her cot in the nursery or in the crib in my room or the Moses basket downstairs!? I have literally forgotten what I used to do with my son

Didn’t think to look on amazon, thanks, will have a nosey xx

 

[candymycandy]

My lb is only 2 so it’s all a bit fresher in my memory!

I guess it depends on what you’re doing where baby will sleep? Eg if you want a nap or if you want to do stuff while they sleep. I think my lb spent a lot of time sleeping on me of course in the early days until I managed to get him lying down. Then probably equal amounts of time between Moses in living room and snuzpod in bedroom. If you’re planning on BFing post 6m and putting baby down after it would be in cot in nursery I suppose so could be handy to have the chair?

the one I bought is a rip off Charles eames one, was £39.99 so won’t be a great loss if it doesn’t get used tonnes xx

 

[Blueclass]

I love my chair but didnt get it till my baby was about 9m as we moved. We read in it each noght then i feed her x

 

[JustTrying]

No intentions of buying it myself as I will probably feed downstairs on the sofa or on the bed if upstairs.

 

[Hoping for no2]

A chair in baby's room is a def for me, particularly as they get older and youve established a routine. We always did bedtime feed in the noursery and any night feeds once out of our room.

 

[Shanivy]

I will definitely be buying one for the baby's nursery for bf routine.

Like you I have a small nursery. I have a built in wardrobe that I'm customising with ikea algot wall rails/shelves etc like DDs built in wardrobe. Then I'll have the cot, changing table dresser, and nursery chair for furniture. That's it. Xx

 

[TORino]

I have one of those ikea wooden lounge/bouncing chairs. I would feed the baby in it during the night when she went into her own room. Which was about at 3 months old. I’ll be putting it back in the nursery now as it had been in the study.

 

[Firsttimemumx]

I loved it I found when I fed my baby in bed in the night I’d drift off sometimes while feeding her being in a chair made me more awake therefore less likely for accidents to happen. Plus I had stitches after an episiotomy and it was more comfortable to sit on the chair than be in bed at times.