Baby's room

[bea]

at the moment, in dd's room, we have the spare bed...(two bedroomed terrace!)...her cot and chest of drawers... so i have always breastfed her on the bed, crosslegged... not the most comfy but quite doable!!!....but we are soon to be moving where there will be an actual spare room! (yippee! ) so of course the spare bed will now live there...

my prob is... how do i breastfeed her now...? don't really want a glider chair as i like to sit cross legged to feed and was wondering what do all you other mums do? I was thinking of just getting a nice big comfy armchair...

Thanks!

[Azzie]

I used a big armchair, which now comes in very handy for sitting in with both children when reading bedtime stories.

[bea]

azzie... that's the line i was thinking to follow! you must have a very big armchair to fit both children in!

[Azzie]

Yes, it is pretty big. It's sort of a family heirloom - it was my fathers armchair when I was little (Mum remembers me and the dog digging all the stuffing out of a hole in the seat one day when I was 2). She later went to upholstery classes and recovered it. When my Dad died in 1988 it came to me - we unpicked the side and found over £50 in change which had fallen out of his pockets over the years when he fell asleep in front of the TV. Now it needs reupholstering again - we're about to move into a new house so I'll get it done in whatever colour suits the new room. It feels sort of nice to be reading to my kids in my Dad's favourite old chair - a link with a grandad they never knew.