About Us
ABOUT US
The pillow I wished existed when I needed it most.
Eighteen months after my daughter was born, my marriage was quietly falling apart and no one was talking about it.
My name is Elena Marsh, and like a lot of new mothers, I thought the hardest part of postpartum would be the sleepless nights. It wasn't. The hardest part came months later, when my body had technically "healed" but intimacy still felt like a stranger I couldn't get back to. There was pain. There was numbness. There was the unbearable feeling of disappointing the person I loved most and being too embarrassed to explain why.
I did what most women do: I Googled at 2 a.m. I asked my OB-GYN, who said "it'll come back." It didn't. I tried the products I found online bulky foam wedges that looked like they belonged in a hospital, sex pillows wrapped in cheap vinyl that I hid in a closet so my own mother wouldn't see them. Nothing was made for me. Nothing felt like it belonged in my home, on my bed, in my real life.
So I started building it myself.
Three years. Forty-seven prototypes. One obsession.
I'm not a doctor. I'm a former product designer who got obsessed with a problem nobody wanted to talk about.
I spent the next three years working with pelvic floor physical therapists, OB-GYNs, and an industrial designer who'd spent a decade designing ergonomic medical seating. We tested forty-seven prototypes on real women postpartum mothers, women navigating perimenopause, women living with endometriosis, women whose partners had been injured, women who simply wanted to feel close to their husbands again without dreading the next morning.
We kept asking three questions:
Does it actually work? (Real positional support proper pelvic tilt, hip relief, lumbar protection. Not just a pretty wedge.)
Does it feel like hers? (Beautiful enough to leave on the bed. Soft enough to want to touch. Discreet enough that it doesn't announce what it is.)
Does it give her back what she lost? (Not just function confidence. Closeness. The version of herself she remembered.)
When I finally tested the version we now sell, my husband cried. I cried. I knew we were done.
Why Posie exists.
Every woman I've spoken to in the last three years told me some version of the same sentence:
"I thought I was the only one."
You're not. There are millions of us postpartum, perimenopausal, post-surgical, living with chronic pain, or just exhausted in a way the world doesn't make space for. We've been handed clinical-looking devices that make us feel broken, or cheap "intimacy aids" that make us feel cheap. We deserved a third option.
Posie isn't a sex product. It's not a medical device. It's the thing in between designed by a woman, refined by clinicians, made for the moments that matter most in a marriage and almost never get talked about.
If you're reading this and recognizing yourself in any of it: I see you. You're not broken. You just needed something built for your body, by someone who'd been where you are.
Welcome.
Elena Marsh
Founder, Posie