Combination nursing and breast milk expression support pillow

Abstract

A pillow support device for an infant during breast feeding and for hands-free engagement of breast pump devices during milk expression sessions. The device features a front pillow section removably engageable with a rear pillow section. The front pillow section provides an optimum support for a prone child thereon during nursing sessions and concurrently is adapted for cooperative engagement with one or a plurality of breast pumps during milk expression sessions and proper positioning of the pumps in relation to the breasts of the user.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention herein disclosed relates generally to pillows. More specifically, the invention herein described and disclosed relates to a user configurable nursing pillow. The device features a planar surfaced forward positioned pillow which is adapted for engagement to one or a plurality of breast pumps to allow nursing mothers to store breast milk for use during feedings when the mother and child are separated or in a locale where breast feeding would be inconvenient. A planar top surface of the forward position pillow also provides an excellent support surface for nursing babies in the prone position. An engageable rearward posited pillow provides lumbar support and is removably engageable to the forward position pillow using adjustable means for engagement that provides a means for adapting the size of the device to the varying size of users. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Breast feeding of children has been around as long as there have been hum...

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[0025] In addition to providing proper support to feeding infants, the device herein disclosed provides an equally useful function through the additional utility of a means to engage a breast pump through the provision of a pair of elongated specifically shaped apertures formed in the top surface for the front pillow section. These apertures are portioned to allow for conventional breast pump devices to achieve a firm attachment to a woman's breasts during milk expression. Through experimentation with this engagement configuration it has been found that an oval shape to the apertures are especially preferred dimensional characteristic. This is because the oval shape allows for angling of the breast shields commonly employed upon breast pump devices to more comfortably and more securely engage upon the mother's breast while still frictionally engaging the sides of the container of the breast pump. By providing the apertures in this oval form, the device is adaptable to the potentially infinitely varying differences of different mother's anatomy when using the device as a breast pump support. Using the device to hold one or a plurality of breast pump devices employing shields in contact with the user's breasts allows the mother to express milk for use at more convenient times without the need to physically hold the breast pumps in a secure and sealed engagement with her breasts. This allows for hands-free milk expression helping the mother to relax and use h

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