Twin nursing pillow - Page 2

[~Adorkable~]

i think the issue and risk about recliners is about using normal bed or throw pillows, often many of them, to prop mother and baby(ies) up. i have sat awake on my recliner with my EZ2nurse pillow crammed in between the arms, i actually moved it in front of my computer in the early days so they could sleep like that while i learned how to be a twin mommy online. and yah i will say that how i happen to have it did feel relatively safe, but i also had a firm flat totally square nursing pillow in a totally firm square (ikea square!) armchair. nobody was going anywhere, heck i couldn't even move if i needed too. and of course i was awake, i was totally upright. 

but what im saying is that yes i can see that would a full twin nursing pillow and everything fitting just right, that i can see how a reasonable safe set up could happen.

[star8kitten]

Oh I completly agree, I never would have felt safe with just bed pillows propping us up with newborns.  The EZ2nurse pillow is so big and so solid there is no risk of anyone getting trapped in it. 

[gozal]

I hear you guys, this is exactly what I resent about all that so-called safety propoganda - I really thinks we mamas have a good instinct about what is safe and not. Not that I don't appreciate valid safety info, of course - I'm thinking more of the "taking your baby to bed is a death sentence" stance of many mainstream pediatric organizations in the US. I know many don't feel safe sleeping with a small baby as I did - in fact, I planned on co-sleeping but first on using some kind of co-sleeper for the "fourth trimester" with DS. Did not work, he would not sleep anywhere but on me. So I learned to BF while lying on my side and holding him in the crook of my arm. I felt 100% safe this way. But many don't. This time I'm thinking I'll co-bed them in a pack n play pushed up against my side of the bed, co-sleeper style, and take them one at a time to BF on my arm (the arm facing the edge of the bed). We'll set up our bed for safety as we did with DS in terms of bedding, etc. DS can then sleep between me and DH. I don't know that this will work, but I think it'll be our initial set-up. I can definitely see using the nursing pillow in bed for tandem BF. I'm not sure the recliner would work for me, but I'm glad to know it has worked for others and how you did it so I can have that for my bag of tricks! So the twin nursing pillow fits within the space of a typical recliner seat? I was picturing it sort of propped on the arm rests.

[~Adorkable~]

the twin nursing pillow DOES NOT fit with the arms of most recliners that i have found. it takes a extra wide to really make that work.

i think the hard part of the whole safety thing is that everyone thinks they are the ones that know better, and while tons of mommas can make rally smart choices, i doubt the ones that made the wrong choice did that on purpose. really doubt that anyone said, "wow this looks really iffy, lets fall asleep and see how it goes" so accidents happen because too often we think we safer than we really are. how do you deal with that? i personally have no idea, i struggle to be honest with myself and if to many folks disagree i rally try to understand why and hear them out.

[mylilmonkeys]

I think the pillow would be too high to be any good if propped on top of the arm rests.