Pregnancy pillows - are they worth it?

[Firstbaby2019x]

Hi all
I'm well into my second trimester and have started to get uncomfortable with back pain, esp at night, due to growing bump.

Considering pregnancy pillows to help with getting a comfortable night sleep but are they any good? Or just a fad?

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No problem. Speaking generally, I see little sign that the government, local authorities and councils are looking out for consumers. Business interests appear to come first now. Just today on Rip-Off Britain, Lynne Foulds Wood was rightly critical of the Office for Product Safety and Standards. This is a fairly new agency, part of the Department for Business (really?), with a £13m per year budget and over 300 people on its books. Yet it's achieved next to nothing so far. The programme was criticising Whirlpool's poor actions over recalls they're supposed to be making. The OPSS made a statement that around 70,000 machines have been recalled but a) that was not due to any actions on their part and b) there are over a million that need recalling.