Once upon a time, when I was pregnant with Jackson, I purchased a body pillow from Target. It was perfect. Floppy, soft, pink and purple and just the thing to lay on at night. When I’m pregnant, I like to lay half on my side, half on my belly. Entirely on my side isn’t comfortable and entirely on my belly always feels like I’m laying on something (yes, even only 8 weeks in!). The best way to accomplish this effect is with a body pillow. But for some reason, my body pillow has gone missing. I have no idea where it has gone, where it could have gone. I didn’t take it to the drive in, I’m pretty sure. Did I? The point is, I can’t find it. I’ve had to sleep this week without a body pillow and it’s been very hard. Each day, I’m more and more wanting to lay in my half on my side/half on my belly position and I can’t accomplish that with blankets alone.
I suppose I could buy a new body pillow. But every store I’ve looked at online has listed pregnancy pillows as being $40 or more! $60 for a “J” shaped pillow? Seriously? That’s just atrocious! Shoot, I got my beloved body pillow for a mere $10 and that worked just fine. So why can’t I have something just like that? Why must they make it so difficult for me??
I just want to sleep half on my side and half on my belly. Is that so wrong?
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Liz (55 comments.) 08.29.07 at 7:02 pm
Oh man…my pillow’s name was Fred. And Kris would nudge me in the middle of the night and ask me to ask my “boyfriend” to please MOVE OVER. Man, I LOVED that pillow (evidently, as I named it Fred). I think I got mine at Bed, Bath & Beyond for under $20. I think it wasn’t billed as a ‘body pillow’–maybe one of those ‘long decorative pillows?’
Loralee (126 comments.) 08.29.07 at 10:40 pm
Oh, I LOVED my body pillow. I got it as a Christmas present years ago and it gave up the ghost after my last pregnancy. I had no idea that replacing it would cost so much. ERP!
Kathie (19 comments.) 08.31.07 at 2:08 am
I am in exactly the same situation, only I’ve never had a body pillow before as this is my first pregnancy. But I too am 9 weeks pregnant and want to sleep somewhere between half on my tummy and half on my side, and end up trying to wedge myself in the position with a curled up leg. I’ve been looking at body pillows, and eevn on eBay they want over 40€ for one, which is insane…
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