The chair is comfortable but it takes way too much effort to close the footrest after reclining. You would not be able to do it when healing postpartum without pain and more importantly it’s way too loud! When you finally get it to shut all the way it makes a loud banging noise. Not practical for the nursery, it will wake the baby! I’m writing this at 2 am after a night feeding and my baby’s eyes popped right back open when I closed the footrest and he heard that loud noise! That “con” outweighs all of the “pros” unfortunately.