Absolute best stomach-sleeper pillows EVER
My search for a stomach sleeping pillow is over. My whole life I've slept on down pillows, and over time I've become like the princess and the pea, not only did I need the softest finest down, I also found that the inner containment case material itself was crucial, I'd ordered just about every stomach-sleeping down premium 'soft' fine thread-count cover pillow by every TOP luxury brand, and the true fact is, the only pillow soft enough in both the fill AND the containing material was Cuddle Down's heirloom down stomach sleeper pillow in a silk charmeuse case, with an additional silk charmeuse pillow case on top of that. Yes, I really can tell a difference between the silk inner pillow INSIDE the silk case - it makes a huge softness and pliability difference compared to the finest cotton threadcount, my face really feels it. Unfortunately, with the nature of that ultra delicate down fill, they get flattened and broken down within a year or two and it's been a tough pill to swallow buying a new set of those astronomically expensive pillows every year or so, they had originally cost me $100+ each, but recently went up to $400 a pop!! This was just not sustainable anymore (though this is not about pampered indulgent luxury, this is about simply what it takes anymore for me to get a decent night's sleep without developing a crick in my neck that lasts a week, or tossing in discomfort losing hours of sleep because of 'rough' pillow feeling on my face). So after putting off buying a $400 pillow for a year while my current down pillows were degrading to flat lumpy messes, I decided it was time to find a more affordable alternative. I searched far and wide and ordered 5 different pillows that purported to be for stomach sleepers, with the emphasis on flat, pancake, stomach, etc. made of various materials from down, memory foam, man-made fill etc. and among others, ordered this 'adjustable pancake' pillow with its 6 layers (almost out of curiosity more than believing it would be a solution). What to my AMAZEMENT - each of the 6 "layers" was a PERFECT individual pillow, the material of the fabric, while not being silk charmeuse, is as SOFT and pliable as silk, and the inner filling is likewise as soft as down -- the pillows were an exact duplicate of the softness of my $400 heirloom silk covered down stomach pillows. I always sleep with two pillows - with one of my arms in between, and two of these pancake pillows have PERFECTLY replaced those outrageously expensive down pillows, at the same optimal thickness, softness, pliability, yet fluffy support. I put one 'pancake' layer each into my existing charmeuse silk pillow cases and my face, neck and self slept soundly and delightfully through the night. The 'container' that these 6 layers come in is really kind of nothing but a bag as far as I'm concerned, I'd never use all six pancakes at once nor do I think the container bag is suitable as an actual pillow case to sleep on - but what I do think is I've just purchased six unbelievably perfect stomach pillows for $13 each ($80 divided by 6) - each one as soft and delightful as the $400 pillows. I obviously couldn't be more delighted by these pillows. Of course it's an open question at this point how long they will last before the fluff clumps or breaks down, but at $13 a pillow (layer) I can buy THIRTY of these before I reach the cost of one of the heirloom down pillows, so it's not a worry! Read more