The Boppy Company Bare Naked Pillow Review

A nursing pillow of any kind can make nursing much more comfortable for the inexperienced mom and baby team. The Boppy with removable slipcovers is great because anything that comes in recurrent contact with a baby needs to be washable. You can put your whole Boppy in the washing machine if you slip it around the center pole, but that's only necessary in extreme situations. When those situations do arise, it holds its shape very well but takes a long time to dry. For the ordinary drool and dribbled milk, it's much easier to just throw the slipcover in the laundry and put on another one. My slipcovers still looked soft and pretty after about a hundred thousand washings, and they remained colorfast against all my stain-solvents. If you have another baby of the opposite sex, you can trade in the fuzzy pink slipcovers for blue ones without having to buy a new pillow.

I thought the size and shape of the Boppy was perfect for positioning the baby at my breast. It worked for me in several different positions and prevented all the aches and pains associated with the early days of nursing, when it takes twice as many hours of the day as a full time job. As a baby-prop, it was very useful for manicuring and other grooming purposes when my infant was too floppy to hold up her head.

I was the first of my friends to have a baby, but most of them would follow within the next six months. Of course, I considered myself an expert by then, and I told everybody they just had to have a Boppy. Since pregnant women are very easily convinced that they need to buy things, most of them got one. To my surprise, the reviews were quite mixed. After awhile, I noticed a pattern.

Most women can be categorized as Apples, Pears, and Hourglasses. My friends with waists smaller than their hips, like me, snuggled the Boppy on and found comfort, even the ones who used pregnancy as an excuse to eat their way through several dress sizes. My friends with narrow hips and round bellies above did not like the Boppy. It didn't sit right on their laps or fit close enough against the middle, even the ones who were quite thin. It didn't matter much what BMI category they fell into, it just came down to Apples, Pears, and Hourglasses. If you are an Apple, you can probably do better than the Boppy for a nursing pillow. I recommend checking out the other brands, perhaps with a ten pound sack of sugar in your arms. If you're an Hourglass or a Pear, you might like the Boppy as much as I did.