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I am pregnant and have been told to sleep on my side
Most pregnancy pillow advice is about supporting the bump, the knees and the back — a body pillow does that, and does nothing whatsoever for your head. If you have moved to side sleeping for the first time, your head now needs the taller pillow a side sleeper needs, and the body pillow you bought does not supply it. The two are separate jobs and only one of them is being sold to you.
This one is not a pillow question alone. Sleeping position in pregnancy is entirely a matter for your midwife or doctor, and their guidance governs completely. This page makes no recommendation about position and addresses only the height of the pillow under your head.
What the pillow has to do
- loft in measured range — Pillow loft within the range your own measurement implies. This is first for every constraint in this cluster, because no surface is soft enough to rescue a pillow your head has already flattened.
- adjustability preferred — A pillow whose height you can change, because the thing altering your geometry is not present every night — one fixed height cannot be right both with and without it.
- position tolerant support — Support that does not depend on hitting one exact spot, so rolling over does not mean re-finding a position in the dark.
How people ask this
- Pregnancy pillow neck pain
- Pillow for side sleeping while pregnant
- Pregnant and my pillow is too flat
The pillows indexed here
Work out your own loft first → Loft comes before everything else on this list.