Do I need a chair in nursery to Breastfeed?

[HeidiHole]

PFB due in 6 weeks and I am planning to have a go at breastfeeding.

I've bought a cot that straps to the side of my bed www.bednest.com/
and was planning in my naivety that baby would wake in the night, I'd lift him into bed (super-king so loads of room even with DH) baby would feed, I'd put him back in crib and all without getting up! Whats all the fuss about :)

So my mum has shattered my dreams and said that if I don't actually get up and sit in a chair and do a "proper job" of feeding then he will just sort of half heartedly suck, and doze, and slurp and a feed will last 3 hours and I'll get sore nipples etc and no sleep. I'd not bought a chair for feeding because in the day I'd use the sofa, and at night I thought i'd be in bed.

Am I wildly optimistic/stupid? What she says makes sense but in that case why have I spent a fortune £200 specifically on a co-sleeping cot if I have to then get up to feed?

And on a lighter note, nevermind the nursing chair, we have never used the nursery, which was decorated so beautifully for DD's arrival, because we'd never heard of co-sleeping. The nursery is now a box room.

We had an ikea poang chair in the nursery and I loved it. Didn't use it at night for the first 6 months when dcs were in our bedroom and I fed lying down, but once they were in their own rooms it was a godsend. I used it at night and in the daytime, i had a luttle table next to it with all my bf essentials- lansinoh, muslins, drink for me, book for me, radio, chocolate, so whenever I sat down to bf I had everything I needed to hand. The poang is now the 'reading chair' and is still used every day.

Little not luttle....

Ditto worldgonecrazy we've not used our nursery either, other than to store nappies, clothes and junk We hadn't expected to have DD in our room for so long (cot at side of bed with side down 7.5 months later)

Ds1 didn't night feed after he was 14 weeks old so until then I jsut fed in bed, no chair in the nursery.

Once ds2 was in his own room (around 4mo) I had a chair in there for night feeds - I just bought a second hand armchair from ebay, hoovered it and washed the covers. It only cost me a tenner and is really comfy. Until then I fed in bed, sitting up as he had tongue tie and feeding lying down was agony (that's another story though!). Once he was finished I just popped him back in the moses basket and went back to sleep.

So no need for a feeding chair until he's in his own room, imo.

Another vote for the Ikea Poang. I found feeding lying down hard to begin with, so fed sitting up in bed. It REALLY hurt my back! Got the ikea chair and life got easier even though I had to get out of bed. Managed to work out feeding lying down in the end, but found bringing DS back to our room for feeds once he was in his own room a pain in the jacksie. So moved the chair to the nursery and still use it every day (and night!)

starthefanplease - feeding using pillows in bed is dangerous!' If mum is tired and dozes off the baby can easily slide under them. There are more cot deaths as a result of falling asleep on sofas with cushions and from babies suffocating under pillows in bed than any other cot death cause.
If you take the baby to bed push pillows away from the baby and lie on one side.