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On your side, the top knee slides forward and takes your pelvis and lower back with it. One pillow behind your back, in front of your chest and between your knees keeps everything level.
Read her night ↓The story
You settle on your side, the way you always have.
Your top knee has slid forward and down. Your pelvis turned with it and your lower back followed. The ache wakes you, and you shuffle pillows in the dark.
Stiff hips getting out of bed, and you blame your age.
One long pillow holds your back, your front and your knees at once. Hips stacked, spine level, and you stay where you settled.
What it does about it
Keeps the top leg from dragging your pelvis round, which is where side-sleeper hip and back ache starts.
Support behind your spine and something to hold in front, so you stay on your side without trying.
Head, back, hips and knees from one pillow, not four that migrate by 2am.
A favourite in pregnancy and for nursing. From the second trimester it holds bump, back and knees together, and afterwards, wrapped round your waist, it lifts the baby to feeding height and takes the load off your arms.
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The science, plainly
Hospital physiotherapists give this advice for pelvic and hip pain in pregnancy: sleep on your side with a pillow between your legs. The same mechanics apply to any side sleeper, because the top leg is what turns the pelvis.
Source: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS, Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy, patient information.
From 28 weeks the advice is to fall asleep on your side, for naps as well as nights. If you wake on your back, do not worry. Just roll over again.
Source: NHS and Tommy's Sleep on Side guidance, drawing on the MiNESS study, BJOG, 2018.
The film · 15 seconds · from ClarSi
The U shape, the soft cover and the zip-off case that goes in the washing machine.
Questions
No. It is a side sleeper pillow first. Pregnancy is where most women discover it.
It takes about half of a 150 cm bed. Partners adjust.
Yes. It works as a nursing support, and as a side sleeper pillow for as long as you want it.
Still deciding? Ask Clara, bottom right, any time of night.
Contact
Questions about your sleep or an order? Write to us. ClarSi, Orba, Costa Blanca.