Suspended back pillow for maintaining a side sleeping position

Abstract

A device and method for enabling an individual located on a bed to sustain a side-sleeping orientation on either a left or right side. The device comprises a light weight, elongated back pillow having a longitudinal axis and being configured to assume a rest position at a hack side of the individual and proximate to an adjacent surface of a bed when reclined in a side-sleeping orientation. The back pillow includes a hinge-like attachment structure which is positioned along a longitudinal edge of the pillow to secure the pillow to the individual's bed clothing. The attachment structure provides sufficient rotation to allow the pillow to rotate to the rest position in response to the force of gravity, ready to be engaged in a partial captured configuration between the individual's back and bed surface upon initial rotation of the individual from the side-sleeping orientation toward a supine sleeping position. Additionally, at least one front pillow is positioned and configured for concurrent positioning to a front portion of the individual at a knee and/chest location to complete a three-dimensional frame of reference for sleep position with respect to a bed surface and for developing an expectation within the individual's mind that the presence of the at least one front pillow indicates concurrent, probable presence of the back pillow capable of blocking rotation of the individual to a supine position.