Patent ID: 7416544

Claim:
A nursing pad, comprising two pad pieces each 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 absorber provided between said liquid-permeable sheet and said liquid-impermeable sheet; said pad pieces being bonded together along a bonding line which is adapted to be placed corresponding to a nipple of the wearer when said nursing pad is being worn; wherein each said pad piece has a peripheral edge which is located outside the respective absorber and in which the respective liquid-permeable sheet and liquid-impermeable sheet are bonded together; along the bonding line, a portion of the peripheral edge of one of the pad pieces is bonded to a corresponding portion of the peripheral edge of the other pad piece so that the respective liquid-permeable sheets of said pad pieces face each other; and the bonded portions of the peripheral edges of said pad pieces together define along said bonding line: an elongated ridge on an outer surface of the nursing pad which is adapted to face, in use, away from the wearer's skin, and an elongated groove on an inner surface of the nursing pad which is adapted to face, in use, the wearer's skin, said groove being adapted to be placed corresponding to the nipple of the wearer when said nursing pad is being worn.