First you believe a few pillows will do the trick, but with all that new weight you are sporting you can't lay on one side for too long before your hip goes numb.
Then 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 finally got yourself into what feels like a luxuriously comfortable posture - you have to pee - so you have to haul yourself out of that spot, waddle to the bathroom, and then back to the rearranging you go.
There's been lots of spectaculation about issues like the best pregnancy pillows for neck pain among others.
So pregnancy pillows were invented by some excellent person. Thank you to whoever that was. But I'm frightened not all pregnancy pillows are created the same. I tried a few before I landed on this one (mainly because I'm cheap and I thought "What? $50 for a pillow! What a racquet!") and like with anything, you actually get what you really pay for. For the same reason I will not buy designer maternity clothing, I had an extremely hard time justifying the purchase of a pillow designed simply to be used during the last few months of pregnancy.
However, even when I had just used this pillow for three or four months, it would have been 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 fluffy company tucked in all my just-formed nooks and crannies. And as it turns out, this pillow is also enormously useful for breastfeeding too!
I had such a tough time figuring out the best way to nurse laying on my side. I could not manage to get myself situated into a spot that did not hurt my back or make my arm fall asleep. It was becoming so bad that I went to see an acupuncturist about the chronic back pains I was developing as a result of the nursing distress.
