No Chair in Nursery

We're putting together the nursery (I'm 29.5 weeks) and we realized there is just NO room for any sort of glider or rocking chair. Luckily we hadn't bought one yet, but I'm starting to get nervous about not having one.

My best friend (who has had two singletons) said she didn't really use her nice gliders, and prefered to BF on the couch. Also, I'm planning on getting the EZ 2 Nurse pillow, which can't be used on a regular chair. Our main living space isn't huge (our bedroom is like two steps from the nursery and the living room is all of 10), but it's the middle of the night feedings are what concerns me. I know you want to try and keep things very calm and quiet to teach them about night vs. day. Would bringing them into a different room to feed be way too disruptive?

(of course, this all hinges on my ability to BF, I think bottles would be pretty easy to do as a dream feed)

 

For us having two chairs in the room was the only way to go..but that was our situation. You may be fine, try a few different ways and you will figure out what works best for you and once the babies get used to a certain way it probably won't be disruptive, just make sure to keep lights low, etc.

 

I have a big arm chair in our nursery - granted, there isn't room for it, but we're totally squished - I am happy that I have it. It does take up a LOT of room though.

We also are using the EZ 2 Nurse pillow and I would sit on the floor with that. It's easy too because you can place the babies on a blanket on the floor and lift them onto the pillow like that. With my twins, it's easier to keep them in the same room to nurse them at night...too much transition would probably wake them up. Hope this helps! Good luck!

 

We have room in our nursery for a chair, but would've never used it. We have a glider in our living room & that's where we did our night time feedings. We'd keep the lights dim, change them on the floor, & then feed them in the glider. If both were awake at the same time, we'd sit on the couch with the other one. I never rocked my kids to sleep, but on the rare occasion that they need soothing to fall asleep, I just hold them next to their crib & sway with them. I never wanted the chair in their room b/c if one was awake, I wanted the room left quiet for the other one to sleep. But, my twins wake to each other & have since day 1.

When I was nursing, I always nursed in my bed, which is the room right next to our nursery.

For day time feedings, one got the glider & one got the couch (we'd rotate). If we were alone, they were usually propped in Boppies on the floor or on our bed.

I think, like the pp said, as long as you keep things dim & quiet & consistent at night time, your babies will fall into whatever routine you pick.

GOOD LUCK!

 

I always just sat in my BIG glider rocker recliner-We had no room either

April

 

You might not plan on using it right away, but closer the middle of the first year we starting each taking a baby and giving them a bottle (we had a glider in DD's room that was her's and one that was a spare in our room that was given to us) and then we could put them down at the same time. Plus now that they are older I sit in their room everynight with them on my lap and read stories. Then we rock and sing before I put them in their cribs. I wouldnt survive the night wakings either without one. Just some perspective from someone with older kiddos.

 

Sounds like my house is like yours.

When they were infants, I brought them in the family room and I watched tv- I had to to stay awake!!

I did have a glider. I used it at the beginning if they both were crying. I am glad I had one.

 

I have one in the girls room, but didn't use it when they were tiny. We had them in our room with us until 3 months and we'd just feed them in bed or in the living room on the couch. I did use it for awhile when they were older to feed them before bed, but now that they are toddlers we read stories in the den before bed so I don't use it.

 

My twins are almost 3 mo. & are still in our room to sleep. We nurse in an oversized arm chair that just fits the EZ Nurse. I personally wouldn't want a chair in their room while they're not sleeping through the night b/c I generally watch tv while they nurse (they still take at least 30 min. to eat at their 2 am feeding). When we stayed w/ family without a tv, I totally watched the clock while they nursed in the middle of the night...I'd much rather zone to CNN or E on low volume. Helps with the middle-of-the-night crankies

I guess I could see a chair for reading stories but that's easy enough to do in our room too. I wouldn't crowd up their room for it.

 

We have a glider in the living room, not in their bedroom. I've never given it a second thought. It was never a problem to bring them to the living room for a late night feeding, I just kept the lights off. You can put some night lights throughout your house!

 

I have never used a glider or rocker. Our 2nd bedroom is very small too, so to put a dresser, changing table & 2 cribs was all it could fit!! We didn't have room for another piece of furniture. I've always just done what you've said you're thinking of doing....bring the girls out to the couch & fed them there. I tried to breastfeed when the girls first came home & you're right, the EZ to nurse pillow is just too HUGE to fit in normal sized chair. We ended up bottle feeding the girls, but even now I take them out on to the couch & feed them in the middle of night and then bring them back into their room and put them in their cribs.

 

We have a rocking chair in the nursery that I've maybe used 5 times.. Granted the girls don't sleep in their room. We have them in cradles in the diningroom area about 15 ft from our bedroom door [the master bedroom is downstairs and the other two rooms are upstairs] until they can STTN. I do the feedings either on the couch or in the leather rocking chair [very comfy] in the livingroom.

I partcially bf'd the babies for the first three weeks or so [then they started to eat so much that I couldn't keep up with them], but now their bottle/formula fed. I haven't even used my bf'ing pillow once. When I was bf'ing my belly was too big to fit around the pillow, lol. So it just sits here for decoration now..

 

I really like having a chair in the baby room, but it wouldn't have to be a rocking chair. Something to just sit in/on briefly when you're doing stuff in there would be nice. We bought a huge fancy glider for the family room which everyone loves sitting in but I only nurse in it occasionally when I do them one at a time. I did tandem nurse for a long time on the couch but now that they're bigger and wiggly it's easier on the bed.

We had them in a cosleeper for the first 4 months which was really great since they were eating every 3 hours up until that point. But you would be fine bringing them into another room for a feeding as long as the lights were dim.

ETA: I use the EZ2 nurse pillow, always have, love it, and couldn't have breastfed so long without it!!! You have to put a couple pillows behind your back and also under each arm of the pillow but it is so worth it. It saves a ton of time Occasionally now I feed them separately if people are over and I just throw on the Hooter Hider. Or if we're out in public, or if one is cranky.

 

I don't have one, but I do have a twin-sized bed. I've slept in it more than once during teething or sickness, and I breastfeed them laying in it.

 

Weeks before DD #1 was born I bought a rocking recliner at a local garage sale for $25. I have used it for all 4 kids. A LOT. Personally, I could not have lived without this chair in the nursery for any of the kids (Even though the blue that matched the winnie the pooh in the first unisex nursery did not match the lavander toile theme in the twins nursery)

 

I have one and don't use it. When they wake up they are crying so we grab the cryer and take him in the living room so he doesn't wake the other one up. We do have a rocker recliner in the living room and that has been nice. I usually just sit on the end of the couch though. When they were little and we were up alot we would watch tv while feeding and trying to get them back to sleep. Now it goes much faster.

 

i generally nurse on the couch or the floor.

we don't have a nursery at all, though i do admit sometimes i'd like a chair to nurse one or let dh bottle feed one. just try to imagine what you'll want to do, or how you'll want to do it. a glider isn't essential, but a lot of people find them nice to have.

gl, jl

 

I tandem fed on the couch in the living room for the first 16 weeks (using the EZ2Nurse), then started feeding the babes one after the other in their bedroom because tandem nursing in the middle of the night started to wake them up more than feeding them separately did. I have a recliner set up in their TINY room (a recliner only because that was the chair we already had, though a glider would be nice at times). I say have _something_ just so you have the option...

 

I had my boys in the cosleeper next to my bed and would tandem nurse them there in the night and place them back in the co-sleeper after. As for daytime though, I have a great big cozy rocking recliner and I LIVE in it! We splurged on it right before the twins came ( I wish we got it earlier casue it would of been a great bed for the end of pregnancy when you can't sleep anymore). If I could, I would have a glider in every room as they are so essential. So definately get one but as to where to put it- think of what room you will be in the most and put it there.

 

I always brought the babies into my bedroom at night to feed them. It wasn't disruptive at all, we just kept all the lights low, no talking (actually for the first 6-8wks we watched tv - comedy channel - during the nighttime feeds, we just kept the volume really low), we had a little loveseat that we put in our bedroom that I used to breastfeed for the first 3months. As the babies got older it worked fine to bf them on my bed.