After use by three children, and during two pregnancies, my Humanity Family Sleeper co-sleeping pillow is a little worse for wear.
As you can see, it's kinda flat. It looks a bit like a deflated balloon in the middle. That comes from sitting on it to get in and out of bed (a design aspect of the pillow that I don't think can be avoided unless you always crawl into your bed from the foot of it). I've wanted to fix this problem for quite some time and now this blog has given me inspiration to do that, and chronicle my process.
If I had known how easy it would be, I would have done this much sooner!
I had a 32oz package of PolyFil I wanted to use for the project. If you look at the website for the bedtop co-sleeping pillow, you'll see that now they are filled with Kapok and the pad is attached to the pillow with a zipper. When I bought it, however, the pillow was just stuffed with PolyFil and it attached to the pad with the same type of snaps used for cloth diapers!
With a seam ripper in hand, I was quickly able to see where the pillow had been whip-stitched together after it's first stuffing. I tore out those stitches and pulled out most of the stuffing from the middle of the pillow (which was the most compacted). I kept the stuffing at the ends which seemed to be in reasonable shape.
I then started to stuff the pillow with the new PolyFil. I discovered that my one bag of PolyFil would not do the trick to entirely restuff the body pillow, so I used some of the old fill as a "core" and used the new PolyFil around it to fill it out and make it smooth. It was a quick job to then whip-stitch the opening back together again.
I'm so happy with the results. It looks just like it did when it was new: full and round. A perfect bolster for my back. This should carry me through co-sleeping with the third babe. I may even be able to pass it along to a friend.
