We thought long term when buying a chair for the nursery. IMO, gliders don't look good anywhere in the house except the nursery. We bought a rocking, recliner instead and are SOOOOO glad we did. 1) we've slept in that room on more than one occasion and it's much more comfortable than a glider and 2) we'll move the chair to the family room once we're done w/ it.
we did - we plan on throwing it away as soon as we're done using it though. I hate the look of gliders or rocking chairs/rocking recliners so we weren't going to keep it around. We just bought the cheapest one we could find.
I wouldn't. Now that I'm pregnant with our second, I find myself sleeping in the glider sometimes and greatly prefer locking it so that I'm at a set reclined position.
Re: glider/locking mechanism-would you buy glider w/o it?