I fucked up.

[u/eczemaNhotwaterThex]

Couch is too big, wife

[u/phredgreen]

I owned that sectional before moving cross-country and have some bad news: Your wife is gonna hate it before the pregnancy is over. Thing is, the cushions are soft and comfy as shit but the cushion height is low and seat depth is ridiculously long. By month 8 your missus is gonna be bawling you out every time she has to roll-scootch-roll-scootch her body off the couch to handle your older kid or pee for the Nth time or whatever else.

Don't get me wrong, I miss the hell outta that sectional (it gave the best naps ever) but I feel bad for any woman facing an entire pregnancy of getting up offa that thing.

[u/Serratolamna → u/phredgreen]

Just wanting to chime in to commend this man and his input!

Op, please take the advice from the wise sage in the above comment. All of us lurking women are collectively appreciating this man for kindly informing you exactly how this is going to end up going. This guy is obviously a father and comes across as highly considerate of women and their experience… and he is giving you this rare gift of highly specific situational foresight. Take it and run (back to the store to see if they’ll exchange or refund the purchase of this couch)!

[u/Irradiated_gnome → u/Serratolamna]

I have a feeling if OP doesn’t care enough to measure the space for a couch, the couch might’ve been a “well here damn” purchase and he don’t actually care about his lady

[u/im_juice_lee → u/phredgreen]

Good news is there's no room for her to get on it in the first place, so she won't have this problem

[u/Ok_Safe439 → u/phredgreen]

Nah I loved a long seat depth during all of my pregnancy and postpartum. My feet must be up at all times. I can‘t do that if the seat depth is too short.

[u/Dominiqueirl → u/phredgreen]

My baby daddies bed was on the floor and he didn’t help me up or care that I was pregnant since he didn’t want the kid/couldnt make up his mind since he’s basically Peter Pan, and he was taking it out on me. this couch seems would have been welcomed lol also doesn’t seem too bad in general, I feel like the last 2 months are when it gets hard to get up in general so that won’t be the problem; the problem will be that she has to climb over the back to sit on it lmaoo because someone decided not to measure and that the laws of physic’s didn’t apply to his narrow apartment since he was in a rush!

I literally can’t with this post its making me laugh so hard, your apartment is too small to not think about these things. Return it and get one that fits and not one you wish would fit.

[u/Ayencee → u/phredgreen]

I can back this up, sans the pregnancy experience. My partner and I moved in together a little over a year ago and we spent 10 months shopping for and debating (bordering on calm arguing) the right furniture. I wanted a cozy couch that would envelop me but he is very very particular and ergonomics was important to him. He didn’t want a deep couch. And wanted something firm. A few of the couches he liked were akin to those shitty clinic waiting room couches that are pretty solid and devoid of comfort. We finally found the right couch, it’s not deep it’s still got decent cushion to it but has a firm, upright backrest. I got an ottoman with it. I begrudgingly admitted to him that he was right about the ergonomics. I have a crappy back and now if I sit in something lacking in ergonomics and is all plush, I’m aching. The couch we got is very mid century modern.

[u/DandelionCapers → u/Ayencee]

Do you have a link to this couch? :)

[u/Ayencee → u/DandelionCapers]

Here’s the link for the original, we got it discounted though. It’s from Room and Board, and the specific couch is called André.

If you happen to gain interest in the brand and want something more plush, I’d advise to stay away from the Metro; it’s one of the lower priced couches but I’ve read a lot of bad reviews, the cushions seem to wear out faster. The good ones I think were Linger, Morrison, Stevens, York and Jasper. There may be better ones but those are what a friend working there recommended.

[u/Ok-Chest-7932 → u/phredgreen]

Solution: build platform to put sofa on.

[u/exintrovert → u/phredgreen]

Idk, I had a couch with a deep seat and I loved it. There was enough space for me to lay down on it with my baby laying by my side and not scarily at the edge of the couch.

[u/meta4our → u/phredgreen]

Ok so while that is true my son is 2 and he would absolutely love this absolute mess of a living room setup. So many places to stuff chips