Dreamgenii pregnancy support and feeding pillow.

Welcome to Bumps n Bubs, a new preganancy and parenting website for parents and parents to be everywhere! We’re kicking off with a review of the Dreamgenii Pregnancy support and feeding Pillow.

Sleeping can be a real pain during pregnancy – sometimes literally. The further along you get, the more uncomfortable and frustrated things can become – especially if, like me, you sleep on your front out of choice.

After the 12 week scan, everything became a lot more ‘real’ to me and although I wasn’t showing or feeling anything yet, I was petrified I was crushing my baby.

There are many different types of pregnancy pillows out there to choose from, however, the shape and length of the Dreamgenii appealed more to me. Up until I tried the DreamGenii, I was sleeping with a pillow lengthways under my belly and between my legs. Obviously, this wasn’t long enough by any means and most nights it would end up on the floor.

So, enter the DreamGenii…

Before I get into the official spiel, I’d like to start by sharing my personal experience with you on the Dreamgenii.

It comes neatly packaged in a plastic zip up carry bag, which makes it so much easier to carry around with you should you travel a fair bit. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the smallest of packages, but it’s light and if you become as reliant on the pillow as I have, you’ll find this very useful.

The pillow comes with a plain white pillow case, but you can get some beautiful patterened ones from the website - I love the cherry one! The Dreamgenii has a short pillow to support your back and a long pillow to support your belly and fit comfortably between your legs, giving you extra comfort when sleeping. For those of you that normally sleep on your front, or right hand side, it really does help you sleep comfortably on your left (which is advised by doctors and midwives). This doesn’t mean you don’t have the ability to move or turn over in the night though. I started using the pillow at around 19 weeks and am currently at the 24 week stage, and can say hand on heart, the Dreamgenii has improved my sleep a great deal.

It does take some getting used to and when sharing your bed with your husband/ parner, it can take a bit of practice to snuggle up with eachother. Once we figured it out, it really didn’t get in the way.

So now the more medical explinations as to why the Dreamgenii is such a great addition.

Recommended by midvives across the UK, the Dreamgenii is the only specifically designed maternity pillow that will ‘adequately support back, bump and knees at the same time without taking up all of the room in the bed.’ Using the Dreamgenii from 20 weeks onwards encourages your baby to ‘adopt the optimal birth position which can mean a shorter and less painful labour.’

As if that wasn’t enough, once you’ve given birth to your little bundle of joy, the pillow can be used as a breastfeeding support pillow, giving you much needed support during feeding. Overall, I would highly recommend the Dreamgenii. In fact, I think I’m probably going to find it hard to give up even once I give birth! An easy full marks from me.

They’re available from their website, priced £45.99. For our US readers, you can buy one from www.dreamgeniiusa.com
priced at $69.95