Patent ID: 7922704

Claim:
A nursing pad comprising: a liquid-permeable sheet adapted to face, in use, a wearer's skin; a liquid-impermeable sheet adapted to face, in use, away from the wearer's skin; an absorbent body provided between said liquid-permeable sheet and said liquid-impermeable sheet, and a separating portion by which first and second portions of the absorbent body are separated from each other in a first direction, wherein the separating portion extends in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction and defines a folding axis about which the nursing pad is foldable in two, said folding axis being the only pre-formed folding line of the nursing pad, wherein the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet are directly bonded together at the separating portion, and said nursing pad is free of any through holes along said folding axis; and wherein the separating portion meets a periphery of the nursing pad at two opposite areas, each of said areas comprising a fold in which the liquid-permeable sheet or the liquid-impermeable sheet is folded to face itself, wherein the periphery of the nursing pad is recessed inward along the folding axis at said two opposite areas.