A neck-roll pillow is great for a newborn, just put the pillow in mom's
lap and baby is brought way up high, the pillow is nice and firm and the
one I bought for my sister had a beautiful cover, removable and washable.
In between it can decorate the couch.

This was serendipitous, I was sent shopping for bed pillows and couldn't
resist the neck roll bec. it was pretty, and it turned out to be a
G-dsend. (The baby needed some suck retraining, provided by Auntie Pearl,
and the pillow helped with positioning.)

Pearl Shifer, IBCLC
NYC