Kensington breastfeeding chair - any good???

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Hello, has anyone used the Kensington breastfeeding chair - here - ???

I have back problems (I fractured one of my vertebra snowboarding last year) and am looking for a chair with good lumbar support as I will be spending so much time sitting when this baby comes along...

Or if the Kensington chair is no good, any suggestions for other chairs??

Thanks so much

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Thanks kazbeth, that does help - I was looking at the glider/rocking nursing chairs and thought they probably didn't look that supportive...

I had a glider, which was absloutely rubbish. For dd I got one of these chairs and I must say I really liked it. I needed a pillow behind my upper back and I still needed something under my feet, but I had it in my bedroom and used it a lot in the early weeks for night feeds, as I never got on well feeding a newborn lying down or sitting up in bed to feed. I thought it was great .

Thanks Grendle... did you try the chair before you bought it? I can see them for sale on the internet but do you know if they sell them in any shops?

No I just ordered it . I got mine from mothercare online. I'm not sure if they even still stock them, but if they do then maybe it might be worth ringing a big store to see if they stock them? Our small local ones didn't.

I have one of these chairs and used it for both my children (now 3 and 1) as I breastfed them for 9 months and 1 year respectively. I am quite short and found the gliders were unsupportive to my back, couldnt be used without footrest and the arms got in the way of my elbows/babys head. Not to mention the danger for little fingers in those mechanisms when they start crawling! The Kensington is awesome and so comfortable. I found I only needed one bed pillow on my lap to make me comfortable holding baby and in the middle of the night I would use a curved neck pillow to rest my head back on. Great chair, and good looking too...thinking of recovering it in a funky fabric and keeping it for the living room.