Our body pillow comes about 20 by 54 or 20 by 72 inches, in four fills. In kapok or wool it is our lightest body pillow, about 5.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, so you can move it half-asleep. Hold it between your knees to keep your hips stacked.
Best for pregnancy (comfort and support)
Soft and light like down, with no feathers or polyester, and you take fill out to set the height. If your shoulder needs a tall pillow on your side, choose cotton or wool instead.
Best for people who dislike heavy pillows
Dense enough to hold a tall height for years, giving way slowly and evenly, so the gap at your shoulder stays filled through the night.
Best for side and back sleepers
You stay cool because the heat leaves with the damp: wool holds up to 30% of its weight in moisture and still feels dry. Worth it if you are sleeping warmer than usual.
Best for hot sleepers and night sweats
A slip-on organic cotton sateen case cut for our body pillow, in 20 by 54 or 20 by 72 inches, Natural or White. It is certified organic and made to be washed.
Best for body pillow owners
Side sleeping gets uncomfortable long before it gets optional. Most people are told to sleep on their side well before their body agrees to it. What helps is a pillow tall enough for the shoulder gap, something between the knees, and something light enough to move at four in the morning.
A light body pillow, because weight matters most here: you will move it several times a night, and a heavy one becomes something you fight. Take the Body Pillow in kapok or wool, our two lightest at about 5.5 lb in the 20 by 54 inch size. Kapok is soft and light; wool is the one if you are running hot, because the heat leaves with the damp. Add a head pillow tall enough to fill the gap your shoulder makes, such as Organic Cotton or Organic Wool, since side sleeping needs more height than most people are on. Your midwife or doctor decides your sleeping position; we can only help make the position they suggest comfortable enough to hold.
Reading up first? How Do You Choose a Body Pillow and Its Case?.
The body pillow goes between your knees and in front of you, a head pillow is set tall for side sleeping, and the case goes in the wash as often as you need. Every pillow here has a zipper on the short end and arrives full, so you take fill out and change it again as your body changes.
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“My favorite pillow on the list!”The Good Trade
“Quickly became my daughter’s favorite”Mommypotamus
“I love their Organic Cotton pillow!”Clean Mama
“Basically two pillows in one!”Organic Beauty Lover
“A great option for people with neck pain”The Filtery
“One of our favorite options”Sustainably Chic
“Up to 68% quieter than standard buckwheat hulls”Green Child Magazine
“The kapok filling is amazing to the touch!”I'm Plastic Free
“One of the most useful things I’ve tried”Conscious Life & Style
“Best pillow for neck pain”Interior Medicine
“Best overall”Nontoxic Nook
“Feels like sleeping on a cloud”Healthy House on the Block
“The easiest switch on this whole list”Clean AF Life
The pillow that worked in the first trimester rarely works in the third, and the usual response is to pile up whatever is in the house until something holds.
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For most people that is a change of habit, and habits are hard to hold while asleep.
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Side sleeping needs a taller head pillow than back sleeping, and almost nobody adjusts for that when they switch.
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So your pelvis turns with it, and you lie twisted for hours.
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Several times, half-asleep, and anything heavy becomes a struggle rather than a support.
Two pillows that adjust and one of them light enough to move easily covers most of it. Nothing here is a fixed shape, so it changes as you do.
Most body pillows are sold on shape, and shape matters far less than mass once you are getting up and turning over several times a night. A dense body pillow is hard work to reposition when you are half awake, and a pillow you fight is a pillow that ends up on the floor.
Kapok is the lightest natural fiber, and a kapok body pillow weighs about 5.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, the same as the wool one. The cotton body pillow is about 7 lb at that size and the latex about 10.5 lb. You can lift and reset either of the light ones with one hand without properly waking up, which is the difference between using it all night and using it until two.
Lying on your side, your top leg slides forward and down over the bottom one the moment you relax. That rolls your pelvis round, and you stay twisted for as long as the leg stays there.
Held between your knees, the body pillow keeps your top knee up and your hips stacked, so the roll does not start.
People move to side sleeping and keep the pillow they used on their back, which is usually two inches too short for the new position. Your head then hangs into the gap your shoulder makes, and the neck and shoulder both pay for it.
Side sleeping generally wants four to six inches. Every pillow here has a zipper on the short end and arrives full, with more fill than most people keep, so take fill out until your head sits level with your spine, and expect to want a taller pillow than you had.
All four work. They differ on the two things that matter here, which are weight and temperature.
| Fill | Weight and feel | Take it if |
|---|---|---|
| Wild-Harvested Kapok | The kapok body pillow is about 5.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, tied with wool as our lightest; soft and easy to move half-asleep | You reposition several times a night, which is most people |
| Organic Wool | The wool body pillow is about 5.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, the same as kapok, and the heat leaves with the damp | You are running hot at night |
| Organic Cotton | Denser than wool or kapok; the cotton body pillow is about 7 lb at 20 by 54 inches | You want it dense and firm between your knees |
| Tree-Tapped Latex | Pushes back instead of sinking; the latex body pillow is the heaviest, about 10.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, and the longest-lived | You want it to last up to a decade, long after the birth, and have no latex allergy |
| A U-shaped pregnancy pillow | We do not make one | You want a fixed shape rather than something adjustable |
| Ordinary pillows piled up | They separate in the night | Nothing. This is the thing a body pillow replaces |
Start from what keeps waking you. Each answer names the pillow for it.
A kapok body pillow. At about 5.5 lb in the 20 by 54 inch size it is one of our two lightest, so you can lift and reset it with one hand without properly waking up.
Body Pillow ›Hold a body pillow between your knees, and take it in cotton, which is denser than wool or kapok, so it stays firm there and keeps your hips stacked.
Body Pillow ›
Wool, for the head pillow at least. It moves moisture off your skin so you wake dry rather than clammy.
Organic Wool Pillow ›
Your old head pillow is too low for the new position. Organic Cotton holds a tall height for years; take fill out until your head sits level with your spine.
Organic Cotton Pillow ›What each one is made of, how it is certified and how long it lasts, side by side.
| Specification | Adjustable Body Pillow | Wild-Harvested Kapok Pillow | Organic Cotton Pillow | Organic Wool Pillow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | Your choice of four: cotton, kapok, wool or latex | Kapok | Cotton | Wool |
| Cover and weave | Organic cotton, on all four fills | Organic cotton | Organic cotton sateen | Organic cotton sateen |
| Certification | Each fill is certified like its head pillow. The cotton and wool versions are GOTS Certified Organic (Global Organic Textile Standard), licence GOTS-10229 from Oregon Tilth, and made in a GOTS certified workshop. The latex version has an OEKO-TEX Standard 100 Class 1 fill from an FSC certified rubber-tree source, in an organic cotton cover. The kapok version has a wild-harvested fill and an organic cotton cover. | Organic cotton cover. The kapok is wild-harvested, so it carries no organic certificate. | GOTS Certified Organic (Global Organic Textile Standard), inside and out, licence GOTS-10229 from Oregon Tilth. | The finished pillow, wool and cover together, is GOTS Certified Organic (Global Organic Textile Standard), licence GOTS-10229 from Oregon Tilth. |
| Adjustable | Highly adjustable | Highly adjustable | Highly adjustable | Highly adjustable |
| Expected lifespan | Follows the fill: cotton 2 to 4 years, wool and kapok 3 to 5, latex up to a decade | Lasts 3 to 5 years if you fluff it a few times a week | 2 to 4 years; a cotton refill brings back the height | 3 to 5 years for the wool |
| Where it is made | Handmade in New Jersey, USA | Handmade in New Jersey, USA | Handmade in New Jersey, USA | Handmade in New Jersey, USA |
Prices as of October 2026. Our ranking method: The Natural Pillow Score.
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A light body pillow, in kapok or wool, our two lightest at about 5.5 lb in the 20 by 54 inch size. You will be repositioning several times a night, and weight decides whether the pillow helps or becomes something you fight. Pair it with a head pillow set taller than the one you used on your back.
Yes, though not a U-shaped or C-shaped one. Ours is an adjustable body pillow, about 20 by 54 or 20 by 72 inches, in four natural fills. It does the same two jobs, between the knees and hugged in front, and you take fill out to change it as your shape changes rather than living with one moulded form.
That is a question for your midwife or doctor rather than for a pillow company, and guidance changes by stage. What we can help with is making whichever position they recommend comfortable enough to hold all night.
It holds your top knee up so your hips stay stacked when you lie on your side. Without it, your top leg slides forward and rolls your pelvis round, and you can lie like that for hours.
Wool. You stay cool because the heat leaves with the damp: it holds up to 30 percent of its weight in moisture and still feels dry. A body pillow is a lot of surface against you, so this counts for more at that size.
Yes, and most people do. A body pillow is useful for side sleeping generally, and because it has a zipper on the short end you can take fill out to change the firmness for a different job.
The case is. Our organic cotton body pillow case is a washable slip-on case cut for the body pillow, in both sizes, so you can wash it as often as you need.
Firm enough between the knees to keep your hips apart all night, since a soft one flattens and lets the roll start again. It arrives full, so you set it by taking fill out through the zipper on the short end. If you are mainly hugging it rather than using it between your knees, softer and lighter is more comfortable.
Very often, and it is the step people skip. Moving from back to side sleeping needs about two inches more height, because your shoulder lifts your head further off the mattress, and a pillow that is too low lets your head drop toward it.
Kapok is a plant fiber, wild-harvested from the seed pods of Ceiba pentandra trees in Java, Indonesia, and never bleached or chemically treated. It is vegan, with no feathers, and naturally hypoallergenic. If you have specific concerns, raise them with your midwife or doctor and we will send any material information they want to see.
In the 20 by 54 inch size the body pillow is $189 in kapok, $239 in latex, $279 in cotton and $319 in wool. For your head, at Standard size (20 by 26 inches), the kapok pillow is $119, the cotton pillow $179 and the wool pillow $209. The body pillow case starts at $89. Buy a head pillow with the body pillow and $25 comes off the second one automatically. Prices as of October 2026.
The body pillow is handmade to order in New Jersey and ships in 5 to 10 business days. Our head pillows ship in 4 to 7 business days, and shipping is free on both. Pillows come with a 60-night sleep trial, and a slept-on pillow returned inside it gets a full refund, with a prepaid return label and no restocking fee.
Kapok needs fluffing a few times a week or it settles toward the edges, and water clumps it for good. Cotton settles faster than wool or latex, and a cotton refill tops it up. The latex body pillow is the heaviest, about 10.5 lb at 20 by 54 inches, and not for anyone with a latex allergy. Wool is not vegan; kapok and cotton are.
It follows the fill. Cotton lasts 2 to 4 years, wool and kapok 3 to 5, and latex up to a decade, so any of them will see you well past the birth.
If you've sent more pillows back than you've kept, you're our customer.
The three-star ones are in there too.
“I have owned more pillows than I have owned houses and I have owned 12 houses.” This is by far the only pillow to use if you don’t want to wake up with sore shoulders or neck. I have replaced all the pillows in my house with this pillow.
I have compressed discs in my neck, and I have spent hundreds of dollars over the past 6 months trying to find one that will help me sleep. Every pillow I bought caused me to wake up in even more pain than the night before!! The buckwheat pillow is life-changing!! I have slept through the night and wake up with no pain!!
I was leery to try another expensive pillow without some sort of trial period after being very let down by a different company's natural fiber pillow… I don't hear anything at all with the buckwheat! It does stay fresh and cool as well, but most importantly it actually holds my head/neck up and in place. Which allows me to actually get rest instead of always adjusting.
I've been a buckwheat pillow customer for the last 7 years and I can say that Circadian has the highest standards of quality paired with incredible customer service. Very very impressed and would not hesitate to send anyone their way.
I have spent years searching for a pillow that feels supportive and comfortable all night. I have finally found it. I absolutely love the Buckwool pillow. I removed a bit of the material to get it to exactly how I want it… I rarely wake up with neck pain now.
I find myself switching between the two and loving the feel of both. I haven't woken up with a sweaty head with either and that's an amazing feeling especially in the AZ summer. The buckwheat side is a lot quieter and more comfy/soft than others I've tried in the past.
I have tried at least 10 different pillows in the last 3 years. Nothing has worked out except for this wool pillow. I have chronic neck pain which has been greatly reduced. I am very happy with my new pillow.
I have pretty bad chemical sensitivity (housebound most of the time)… I try to only buy totally safe, non-toxic products. I found this pillow to be very safe and non-toxic, and the packaging was fragrance free which is always a huge plus.
I ordered this pillow to replace my very old (but beloved) down pillow and I'm so glad I did. It is heavenly!… I advise you to heed the recommendation given by the quiz. I ordered cotton initially despite the quiz giving me kapok as a result… the quiz was right.
The quality craftsmanship and materials is evident… when I asked if extra stuffing were available for the second one I'm using as a knee pillow, they not only pointed me to the right place on their site, but also created a new, smaller 1-lb. refill size based on my request.
Set it once, change it as your shape changes, and keep using it after the birth. You have sixty nights to be sure, and every pillow is handmade in our New Jersey workshop.
Best for pregnancy (comfort and support)
Best for people who dislike heavy pillows
Best for side and back sleepers
Best for hot sleepers and night sweats
Best for body pillow owners
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