Jun 042013
Boppy Custom Fit Total Body Pillow
- Developed with a physical therapist
- 3-piece design means you can choose the combination of support head/neck support, belly/back support, and hip/leg/ankle support
- Extended length provides support all the way down to your ankles, alleviating strain on hips
- Machine washable for easy care
The newly designed Boppy total body pillow was developed with a physical therapist to provide customized support throughout your pregnancy. The flexible, three piece design means you can use the combination that works best for you. Choose from head/neck support, belly/back support and hip/leg/ankle support. Extended length design provides support all the way down to your ankles, alleviating strain on hips. Machine washable for easy care.
List Price: $ 54.99
Price: $ 50.00
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Crackle, crackle while you sleep!,
This is the second pregnancy pillow I’ve gotten my wife. The first one was this: Todays Mom Cozy Comfort Pregnancy Pillow – Espresso unfortunately it was so dang heavy and big (even on a king-sized bed), it was not comfortable for my wife to change sleeping positions. Also it has a no-return policy
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This Boppy Custom Fit Total Body Pillow is a better design with just one major flaw.
First, no body type or pregnancy size is the same. The fact that you have 3 different pieces that are adjustable by where you put it on the VELCRO is a smart idea. This is comfortable for my wife to use and not heavy, large, static and cumbersome like the pillow mentioned above.
The major flaw and the reason this gets 4 stars is that it is adjustable through the VELCRO. At night, this is pretty loud and disrupting. Crackle, crackle! When you put the weight of your belly on this or move your knees, crackle, crackle!
There’s enough crackle that we simply do not use the Velcro and cover it so it there’s no more Velcro noise.
A major product improvement/suggestion would be to use SNAP BUTTONS! If it’s good enough and comfortable enough for babies to wear, then it’s good enough to keep pillow pieces together. Instead of Velcro they could line a strip of snap buttons so that it is just as adjustable as the Velcro yet…snap buttons are sewed/pressed into cloth and therefore no crackle, crackle noise! [She will probably snip the Velcro out and stitch her own cloth strip of snap buttons on it herself]
Lack of sleep causes a variety of unpleasant effects and anything I can do to help my pregnant wife sleep better, I will, because Happy Wife, Happy Life!
Cheers!
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|Great in theory, cheap materials.,
After trying several body pillows, I thought this would solve all the problems I had with others. Most other pillows take up a ton of space in the bed and require you to curl around in a position not great for your neck. This pillow is longer than most, and because you can detach the pieces, is any length you want. Using only the bottom piece while using my regular pillow was very comfortable and eliminated my hip pain for the first few weeks I owned this. I thought it was worth the 2 hour drive to get one when they were released, and would have given it 5 stars after the first night.
Not 5 weeks later, the pillow started to go flat. Now, nearly 10 weeks later, it is practically useless, regardless of how many times I fluff it and try to rearrange the filling. This, combine with the cheap fabric on the outside (which made my already-dry pregnancy skin so irritated, I had to “dress” the pillow in a tee-shirt to use it) makes it not worth the price. Just like the Boppy nursing pillow I had, it went flat in no time, and won’t be usable for any subsequent pregnancies – I can’t even use it to finish out this one. I’m an average-sized person who has gained less weight than I should have at this point in my pregnancy, so it isn’t like I’m destroying the pillow with huge legs. It is just cheaply made. I may be able to open a seam and shove in more poly-fil, but for $55, I shouldn’t need to.
For the design, I’d give 5 stars, but the fact that I haven’t owned it 10 weeks and it is already flat is too horribly disappointing.
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|A Pregnancy Must,
I’m 24 weeks pregnant at the moment and I’ve been using this pillow for about 3 weeks now. Around 20 weeks I developed the dreaded pregnancy hip pain while sleeping. It’s almost unbearable and to the point that I considered sleeping sitting up. Since I’ve been using this pillow it has gotten much, much better. Whatever hip I’m sleeping on still hurts some, but the other one is fine.
I’ll admit that the pillow is a little odd. My sister saw it and said “What is that?!”, but it’s very comfy and that’s all that really matters, right? I haven’t used all the parts yet, but as my belly gets bigger I’m sure I will. I love that it’s customizable and that I can still use my regular pillow too. My only complaint is that I wake up every time I want to change positions, so that I can move the pillow too. I know that this really can’t be helped and it’s definitely not the pillow’s fault. I would be waking up much more if I still had such horrible hip pain.
I definitely recommend this pillow, and not just for the pregnant ladies. Anyone that has back or hip pain while sleeping could benefit from this pillow.
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