This is a solid built chair but the quality of the fabric is questionable and the recliner is way to stiff and hard to put down to be used in a nursery.  When you pull the release to let the foot rest up it does not go up it SPRINGS up and is very startling not a way to calm an upset baby or lean back quietly with a sleeping baby.  When you are ready to put the foot rest down you will need brute strength to put it down.  I have legs of steel and in very good shape and I have trouble making it click all the way down and into place.  I couldn't imagine trying to put the foot rest down with a baby in my arms it would be impossible.  The padding on the arms was good for the first month thenit flattened out so you can feel the hard wood underneath.  Not a bad chair just not one I would ever recommend in a nursery.