Babymore Lux vs Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe Nursing Chair: Only One Stops Rocking When the Baby Has Grown

COMPARISON · NURSERY & SLEEP

A nursing chair is the piece of nursery furniture you will spend the most waking hours in during the first year, very often at 3am and very often one-handed. Night feeds, contact naps, the bedtime story that turns into three. Yet most nursing chairs are chosen on looks alone, in a showroom, in daylight, without a baby on your lap.

The Babymore Lux and the Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe sit within about £10 of each other at their lowest prices in our catalogue. Both arrive flat-packed, both come with a matching footstool and both rock rather than glide. On paper they look like twins. In the room they are not.

The Lux ships with a second set of fixed wooden legs, so once feeding is over it stops rocking and becomes an ordinary armchair you can put anywhere in the house. The Oscar Luxe is 15cm wider and 10cm taller, wrapped in stain-treated teddy fleece, and its footstool lifts open to hide muslins and blankets. One is built to outlast the nursery; the other is built to make the nursery months as comfortable as possible.

We compared both on the specs that matter at night: seat size, back height, footstool, fabric, footprint and what happens to the chair once your baby has grown. Here is where each one earns its place, and where it does not.

Lil' Bubba's verdicts

• Best Overall: Babymore Lux · 8.5/10 - the only one of the two that converts to a non-rocking armchair, with a lumbar cushion and side pockets thrown in.
• Best for Comfort & Storage: Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe · 8.0/10 - a wider, taller seat in stain-treated teddy fleece, with hidden storage in the footstool.

Quick comparison

	Babymore Lux	Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe
Price in our catalogue	From £279	From £269
Motion	Rocks, then swaps to fixed legs	Rocks only (curved rubberwood runners)
Chair size (L x W x H)	101 x 64 x 90cm	93 x 79 x 100cm
Chair weight	24kg	23kg
Footstool	45 x 31 x 34cm, plain	49 x 33 x 43cm, lift-up storage
Extras	Lumbar cushion, two side pockets	Back cushion, storage footstool
Fabric	Tweed-effect polyester, wipe clean	Brushed teddy fleece with Scotchgard, spot clean
Max user weight	Not stated	110kg
Guarantee	6 months, 12 if registered	Check with your retailer
Our rating

How we picked these two

We looked for two rocking nursing chairs from established UK nursery brands that come with a footstool and land in the same price band, so the comparison is about design choices rather than budget. Both are in stock with UK retailers in our catalogue today.

We read the brand specs and the listings at several UK retailers (which do not always agree on the small details, so we have flagged where they differ), checked prices in our catalogue on the day of publishing and weighed the feedback parents regularly share with us about nursing chairs. Prices move often with sales, so check the live price on the product card before you buy.

What to look for in a nursing chair

Rock or glide. A rocker moves on curved runners and has a slightly stronger, more traditional motion. A glider swings on a fixed base and feels smoother, and many recline. Rockers usually take up less floor space; gliders keep moving parts away from curious toddler fingers and pets. Both of the chairs here are rockers.

Seat width and back height. Measure yourself as well as the room. A wide seat leaves space for a feeding pillow and, later, a toddler climbing in for a story. A tall back lets you rest your head during long contact naps. If you are tall, a back under about 95cm may stop at your shoulders.

Arms and support. Padded arms at the right height take the weight of your elbow during feeds. A lumbar cushion can make a real difference if pregnancy or birth has left your back sore.

The footstool. Feet up helps posture during feeds and makes it easier to keep a baby close without hunching. Storage inside the footstool is a bonus in a small nursery.

Fabric. Milk, spit-up and nappy leaks will land on it. Flat-woven fabrics wipe clean more easily; textured fleece and boucle look cosy but usually need spot cleaning.

Life after feeding. Most families use a nursing chair intensively for a year, then wonder where it goes. A chair that can stop rocking or blend into a living room has a much longer life.

Assembly and weight. Both chairs here weigh 23 to 24kg and arrive flat-packed. Plan to build it before the baby arrives, ideally in the room where it will live.

1. Babymore Lux Nursing Chair with Stool / 10 · Best for life after the nursery

The Babymore Lux is a neat, modern rocking chair with sloped arms, a supportive back and a matching footrest. What sets it apart is in the box: two sets of legs. Fit the curved rockers for the feeding months, then swap to the fixed hardwood legs and it becomes a still armchair that would not look out of place in a living room or bedroom.

It also comes with a lumbar cushion and two side pockets for a phone, muslin or nipple cream, which are the kind of small details that matter at 3am. The trade-off is size: at 64cm wide and 90cm tall it is the more compact of the two, which is great for a small nursery and less great if you are tall or like to curl up.

What parents love

• Converts to an everyday armchair. The spare set of fixed legs means the chair stops rocking when you no longer need it to. We hear repeatedly from parents that the nursing chair ends up somewhere else in the house within a couple of years, and the Lux is built for exactly that move.
• Lumbar cushion included. Extra lower-back support during long feeds, without buying a separate cushion.
• Two side pockets. Phone, remote, muslin and bottle lid stay within reach, so you are not reaching for the side table with a sleeping baby on you.
• Practical fabric and straightforward build. The flat-woven polyester wipes clean with a soft cloth, and shoppers who have built it describe assembly as fairly simple.

What to know before you buy

• Narrower and lower than the Oscar. The chair is 64cm wide and 90cm tall overall. Taller parents may find the back stops below their head during contact naps.
• Plain footstool. It does its job, but there is no storage inside.
• Short standard guarantee. Six months as standard, extended to 12 months only if you register it with Babymore within 28 days of delivery. Do it the day it arrives.

Best for

• Families who want the chair to move to the living room or a bedroom once feeding is over
• Smaller nurseries where every centimetre of width counts
• Parents with back niggles who want lumbar support out of the box
• Anyone who prefers a wipe-clean fabric to fleece or boucle

2. Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe Rocking Chair & Footstool / 10 · Best for comfort and storage

The Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe is the cosier, bigger chair. It is 79cm wide and 100cm tall, with a deep, wide seat and a separate back cushion, wrapped in brushed teddy fleece and set on mid-century style curved rubberwood rockers. It is the chair you sink into rather than sit on.

Its party trick is the footstool, which has a lift-up lid with storage underneath for muslins, spare sleepsuits or bedtime books. Tutti Bambini rates it for users up to 110kg and lists it as tested to EN 12520, EN 1022 and BS 5852. What it cannot do is stop rocking: there is no second set of legs, so it stays a rocking chair for life.

What parents love

• Roomy seat. At 79cm wide overall, with a seat area of roughly 63 x 54cm, there is space for you, a feeding pillow and later a toddler squeezing in for a story.
• Taller back for dozing. The 100cm height gives more parents somewhere to rest their head during long contact naps and cluster feeds.
• Storage footstool. Parents we hear from regularly say nursery storage runs out long before the baby clothes do, and the lift-up lid keeps the essentials tidy and within arm's reach.
• Stain-treated fleece. The teddy fabric is Scotchgard-treated, which buys you time with milk spots, and it feels warm and soft on cold night feeds.

What to know before you buy

• Rocking only. No fixed legs, so it cannot become a still armchair later. If rockers are not your style once the baby has grown, it may end up sold on.
• Bigger footprint. At 79cm wide plus rocker clearance, measure your nursery carefully, especially next to a cot bed.
• Spot clean only, no pockets. Fleece needs a damp cloth or professional clean rather than a quick wipe, and there are no side pockets or lumbar cushion.

Best for

• Taller parents who want somewhere to rest their head
• Contact nappers and cluster feeders who spend hours in the chair
• Nurseries short on storage
• Parents who want a soft, cosy statement chair for the nursery

What about a glider instead?

If you like the idea of a chair that reclines, or you have a crawler and a pet and would rather not have exposed runners, a glider is worth a look. Gliders tend to cost more and take up more floor space, but many lock in place and recline for those half-asleep feeds. We compared two popular gliders in Obaby Madison vs Mamas & Papas Settle.

How to choose

Babymore Lux: Pick it if you want one chair that does two jobs. It rocks through the feeding months, then the spare legs turn it into an everyday armchair. The lumbar cushion and side pockets make it the more practical of the two, and it suits smaller rooms. Register it for the 12-month guarantee as soon as it arrives.

Tutti Bambini Oscar Luxe: Pick it if comfort during the nursery months is the priority. It is wider and taller, softer to sink into, and the storage footstool earns its keep in a small nursery. Just make sure you are happy with a rocker for the long run and that you have the floor space.

Our overall pick is the Babymore Lux, because a chair that can stop rocking is still useful long after the night feeds end. But if you are tall, or you know you will spend hours each night in that chair, the Oscar Luxe is the one you will be gladder to sit in at 3am.

Add it to your Nest

Still deciding? Add both chairs to your free BubsNest registry and share it with family. Friends and relatives can see exactly which one you want, and you can switch your choice at any time before the big day.