Peanut ball for labor

Hello L&D nurses!

Do any of your facilities have peanut balls for laboring patients to use? I saw them used during my L&D clinical rotation but they don't have them where i currently work. Im trying to secure a couple for the unit but not sure what size is best. Amazon sells a few they range in size but these seem to be the closest to what I'm looking for: 40cmX80cm; 45X90; 50X100cm.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Hello! We use the peanut balls for every one of our labor patients with epidurals. It literally works miracles. We sometimes use them for patients without epidurals but not as often.

In my practice I've found that I'm always reaching for the smallest peanut ball for my patients. The bigger ones always seem to be too large and uncomfortable for my patients...the only thing is that I don't know what dimensions our smallest ball is. All of us avoid our largest peanut balls...I don't think I've ever even seen it used! :)

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I just saw a great article on this. They sent me a great packet of the following information free.

Peanut ball research and articles

Sizes of Peanut balls

7 different peanut ball positions

Choosing the correct size of peanut ball for your patient

Tips on the peanut ball

Resources for peanut ball in-services

Where to obtain hospital grade latex free peanut balls

Best video on the 7 different peanut ball positions

Please if you have peanut balls on your unit let us know by filling out this form so we can list your hospital or birthing center that you support peanut balls and have them.

Peanut Ball Training - Peanut Ball for Labor Doula Nurse

Thanks! This is great! I briefly looked at one of the videos on their site this morning and looks like for a majority of the positions they used the smaller one, the 40cm I believe. I'm sure it's dependent on the moms preference and her size as well though.

The huge one that the mom can sit on looks interesting also (70 cm). Seems more stable than sitting on the ball.

Is everyone mostly using these with epidural patients?

Thanks again!

We just got them like a month ago and love them!