Six feet of pillow, and your hips finally stay stacked.
If you sleep on your side, your top knee drops through the night and pulls your pelvis out of line with your spine. This is the thing that stops it.
Your top leg has been pulling your back out of line every night.
Lie on your side without support and gravity takes the upper leg forward and down. The pelvis rotates with it, the lumbar spine twists, and you wake up with a lower back that hurts for no reason you can name.
Something to hold, and something to rest a knee on.
Held along the front of the body, it does two jobs at once: the top arm has somewhere to go instead of collapsing across the chest, and the top knee rests level with the hip instead of dropping. That keeps the pelvis square and takes the twist out of the lower back.
The same four fills, six feet long.
Organic cotton for dense, familiar support. Wild-harvested kapok for the lightest option. Organic wool if you sleep warm and want it dry. Tree-tapped latex if you want springy and cool. Whichever pillow you already sleep on, the body pillow is available in the same material.
It arrives full, and six feet is a lot of fill.
Most people take more out of a body pillow than they expect, because a firm head pillow and a firm body pillow are not the same thing.
Open the side zipper.
It runs along one end. Work it fully open.
Take fill out along the length.
Pull evenly from several points rather than emptying one end, or it will end up lumpy.
Try it between the knees first.
Knee to ankle, with the top knee level with the hip. That is the position that decides how much fill you want.
Then try it along the front.
Arm over the top, knee resting on it. Many people want it softer for this than for knees alone.
Keep what you took out.
Store it dry. It goes back in whenever you want more.
What is inside it.
The same fill as the pillow of the same name, in the same organic cotton cover, cut to twenty by seventy-two inches and sewn shut by hand in New Jersey.
The cover is GOTS Certified Organic cotton on all four fills. The cotton and the wool are certified organic through the fill as well. The kapok and the latex are not, and we do not claim otherwise. Handmade in our New Jersey workshop.
Care depends on the fill inside it.
Wash the cover, never the fill
Slip the cover off, machine wash it cold and air dry it, whichever of the four fills is inside.
Follow your fill's routine
Cotton wants a shake each morning, kapok a fluff every few days, wool a few hours of sun every few weeks, and latex wants to be kept out of the sun entirely.
Rotate it end to end
Once a month, turn it around. It stops one end carrying all the weight.
A body pillow lasts as long as the head pillow of the same fill, which is years. Top it up through the zipper as it settles.
The ones we hear most.
The same one you already sleep on, unless it is not working. Cotton is the most supportive, kapok the lightest, wool the driest, latex the springiest.
It is twenty by seventy-two inches, so it takes up roughly the space of a person. On a Queen with two sleepers it works best hugged along your own side rather than laid across the middle.
A straight body pillow supports the knees, hips and arm well and can be curled behind the back for a second point of support. Some people prefer a C-shape later on; we do not make one.
No. Wash the cover only, and follow the care routine for the fill inside it. None of the four fills should go through a machine.
Sixty nights, and a person on the other end.
Jacob reads this inbox himself. Tell him at night three rather than night fifty and he will fix it. You can also just ask, about fills, about certifications, about anything on this page.
