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Rating: - This thing is great!
Okay, so I'm not a nursing mother. In fact, I'm a dad, so I guess I can't speak from personal experience about the usefulness of this product for nursing. I do know that my wife loves it, though. And I even use it sometimes when I'm holding our son--I find that it is just high enough to set on my lap, and I can rest my arms against it and hold the baby without tiring my arms.The boppy has many uses, one of them being that you can put the baby in the hole in the middle and sit him up in a sort of reclining position. Our son finds this to his liking, and we often sit him up in it while he naps. Overall, this is an excellent product, highly recommended for moms (and dads).
Rating: - Must Have
Being that I'm 5'9" holding the baby up while nursing was imaginably uncomfortable. I had been using a pillow and it was making my arms ache. When I confided in a friend that I was having a hard time she suggested the boppy pillow. I bought one and I was in love, It gave me the extra boost I needed to feed her better. Within a month I had to stop breastfeeding. Ironically the boppy pillow was great even then. Both my husband and I were able to use it when we held her for feedings. As she got older we used it to allow her to lay on her belly and play and for when she was holding the bottle herself. Next we began placing her in the middle to help stablize her while sitting up. Now she's 19 months, and it still goes along with us all the time. She uses it as a makeshift desk at basketball games, while waiting at the doctor's office, or even just to lounge on at nanny's house.
This pillow has had formula, juice, milk, spit-up, everything spilled on it. It cleans up very easily. It can be thrown in the washing machine, and it maintains it's shape and firmness. I've also noticed that no matter how many times her diaper has leaked on it , it holds no odor. Wash it and it's clean.
Another plus is the zipper up vinyl pouch it comes in. I'm glad I kept it. At first I wondered why on earth I would need it but now when we got to soccer games or to the park or the playground, she can lay it right down in the grass or dirt and I'm not worried about it getting filthy. Plus it doubles as a little table on hese occasions and when she's done getting food all over it I just wipe it clean with a baby wipe.
Fingerpainting was an acivity I was reluctant to attempt, until a friend suggested I lay newspaper down, place the boppy pillow in it's vinyl pouch and lay her down on her chest and let her paint. I don't have to worry about it getting all over my furniture or her.
And don't think you can't use it too, next time you have a really long car ride and you'd like to be able to relax a little more, use it yourself as a neck pillow.
I Love this Pillow, It's rather inexpensive and very very useful. I think it's a must have.
Rating: - A Must Have For Mom...
This should be put on every baby registry!!! I wrap it around me and lay my son on it to breast feed. He's comfortable, I'm comfortable - we're both happy.It even graduates! My son used it to lay on his back between the Bobby so he could look around during his first 2 months. Now that he's in the head-up phase, he lays on his stomach between the Boppy, and can be part of all the family going-ons. Highly recommend it for breastfeeding moms.
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