New body pillow

So my blogging about my new body pillow, while yes, I believe it will solve many of my complaints, is more of an experiment. I started this entry on my phone just to get the pictures up, and yes, I'm seriously annoyed that Google+ will share my blogger pics there, but won't allow me access to my account pictures on blogger. Hopefully someday they'll fix this.

So that's the beast. Yes, it takes up most of our queen-sized bed (please also note that we are upgrading to a king in the next month or two). Yes, it's kinda wierd getting into. I'll be using it "opposite" of what the recommendation is, because apparently, 5'7" is too tall of a person to use it normally. (The arch is supposed to go around your head.) I did try it the normal way first, and the support for my belly was too high, and it wasn't long enough to really reach my knees. Lance, and his infinite brilliance, recommended we flip it around. So we flipped it, and I .... sighed deep. This is the position I've been looking for through 20 weeks of this pregnancy and 32 on the last.

If you've ever been pregnant and NOT a side sleeper, you know just how much of a bear being prengnant can be (not even touching just the general uncomfortableness that eventually swallows you into the third semester). NOW, if you've ever had a pre-existing back issue before getting pregnant, and find yourself pregnant, you know just how MISERABLE pregnancy can be. When I had my back problems, and went through physical therapy, one of the first things the therapist warned me of was to sleep on my back. No side sleeping. No stomach sleeping. HA. Then I got pregnant with Anna.

The last few weeks I've been sleeping on the couch because that bed was just not cutting it for me. I had another body pillow that was only one sided, and did nothing for my back, and did nothing to prevent me from rolling onto my back. The couch on the other hand, provided just enough of a "reminder" when sleeping on my side to not roll over. So that did help... but I wasn't sleeping in my bed. And because the couch wasn't wide enough for ME and the other body pillow, I was sleeping with a regular pillow between my knees which I would fight with most of the time to keep it in position.

SO, there's all the logic that went into buying a new body pillow. I haven't actually slept in it... yet. But just resting in it for the 10 minutes I did was nearly heaven. I'm only sad I just now got it and didn't have it for Anna, too.