Pregnancy Pillow: My Personal Experience

Of all the matters I've bought in the past several years to help facilitate my transition into motherhood, this is, by far, one of the most useful. Once your belly starts growing to such proportions that you can no longer discover any comfortable position in bed, you begin looking around for things to prop yourself up with. First you believe a few pillows will do the trick, but with all that new weight you're sporting you can't lay on one side for too long before your hip goes numb.

Afterward comes the invariable tossing and turning, which means you end up rearranging all those pillows every time you move. And just then, when you've eventually got yourself into what feels like a luxuriously cozy posture - you have to pee - so you have to haul yourself out of that location, waddle to the bathroom, and then back to the rearranging you go. Oh, the pleasures of pregnancy.

So some brilliant person created the pregnancy pillows right?. Thank you to whoever that was. But I am scared not all pregnancy pillows are created the same. I tried a few before I landed on this one (largely because I am cheap and I believed "What? $50 for a pillow! Exactly what a racquet!") and like with anything, you actually get what you pay for. For the same reason I won't buy designer maternity clothing, I had an extremely hard time justifying the purchase of a pillow designed merely to be used during the last few months of pregnancy.

However, even if I had just used this pillow for three or four months, it could happen to be 110% worth it. I wouldn't spend a single nighttime pregnant without this pillow now. The only real way I ever got any sleep was with this downy companion tucked in all my newly-formed nooks and crannies. And as it turns out, this pillow is also extremely useful for breastfeeding too!

I had such a tough time figuring out just how to nurse setting on my side. I couldn't manage to get myself situated into a location that didn't hurt my back or get my arm fall asleep. It was getting so awful that I went to see an acupuncturist about the continual back pains I was developing as a result of the nursing distress.