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Four Excellent Tips on How to Buy the Best Memory Foam Mattress

June 25, 2018 Jayne11 Comments

You may not often go to buy a mattress, but it sure is an important thing. This guide will make you save money and time and will help you in choosing a mattress that suits you best.

The first thing that you need to know is that there are many types of mattresses. Also, statistics say that people who tried memory foam mattresses and innerspring mattresses have, in the end, chosen the memory foam. They made this choice based on lots of aspects, such as motion isolation, pain relief and longevity. The memory foam ones are proven to last longer and have a way superior motion isolation than the innerspring ones do.

Can you buy a mattress without being tricked?

If you know how to manage this whole buying thing, you can avoid being tricked by the seller. That’s why it’s important for newbies to do some digging before.

Your mattress should meet your needs

It really depends on the bed you want to buy the mattress for – is it the bed in which you sleep in every night, or is it for the one placed in the guest room? Because if you’re looking for a mattress for the second choice, then you won’t really need a durable one. If you’re choosing a mattress for your bed, you should go for the one with memory foam, since it’s been proven to last longer. If your bed is a king-sized one, make sure you make the right measurements to have enough space, especially if you’re sleeping on the same bed with your significant other.

Do your homework

There are plenty of memory foam mattresses reviews on the internet, so all you have to do is dig a bit. See the opinion of other clients and make comparisons. If these reviews are verified by a third party, is even better – they’re more trustworthy, because they’re made by the clients.

There are also some rating sites which can also be helpful. You should take your time with these and read as much information as you can. It’s also a good idea to take notes to be sure of what you’re buying.

The types of memory foam

These mattresses come in all shapes and sizes. When choosing one, you should know about the various densities, but it’s good to also keep in mind that some of them consist of petroleum and others in plant-based oils. If you don’t want to deal with the chemicals, which are toxic or synthetic, you can always rely on plant-based mattresses.

The traditional mattress is the most common one and it’s made out of petroleum-based polyols, which are also known as synthetic foams.

The gel mattress can help you in preventing the heat retention, which represents a problem with the traditional mattress. The gel can be mixed with the foam, or can be found merely in the support and comfort layers. They’re primarily used to make the mattresses feel cooler. You should choose recycled mattresses, as they’re the best choice in this category.

The plant-based ones and quite new, and are more eco-friendly. They consist of soy-based polyols and are more natural. They also allow the airflow to make its presence felt through the mattress.

Essential Tips for Potty Training

April 6, 2018July 23, 2018 JayneLeave a comment

I know that having two kids doesn’t make me an expert by any means but Husband and I managed to get the girls through the potty training phase with very little aggro and it’s something for which I’m hugely grateful. There are a few tricks and facts to bear in mind when it comes to getting babies out of nappies, so I thought I’d share a few with you here.

Being dry in the day doesn’t always equate to being dry at night

I know SO many people who get really frsutrated because their kids are totally potty trained during the day but still wet themselves at night, and the simple fact is that night time dryness can’t be trained. It only happens when the body produces a particular hormone and this happens much later for some kids than others. Keep your kids in pull-ups until their go for a whole week of dry wake-ups, and even then I’d recommend having an underpad on the bed (like these Incontinence products available from HARTMANN Direct) to catch any accidents and save your mattresses.

Be prepared

If you’re ready to start venturing out of the house, you need to be prepared for a few weeks to carry a whole load of stuff with you. Travel potty, spare clothes, wipes, tissues – all things that you’re going to need if you have a toilet emergency or accident and it’s MUCH better to have them and not need them – take it from someone who once had to go and buy a whole new outfit including shoes for a kid who just couldn’t hold it any longer!

Skip the potty…

This one may be a little controversial, but it’s something which has really worked for us. If you live in a flat, bungalow or house with a downstairs loo (i.e. somewhere where your child will always have a toilet on the same floor as them), I totally advocate skipping using a potty and going straight to using a proper toilet. Potties are bloody inconvenient and need disinfecting every single time you use them, and you’ll still need to train them to use a toilet once they get bigger anyway. Invest in a good toddler seat and step to help them.

Remember to remember!

If your kids are anything like mine, they’re able to wilfully ignore all the signals that their body is giving them that they need to pee RIGHT until the very last second and then it becomes a mad, and often messy, rush to the loo. Remember to ask them every now and again if they need the loo and often this is enough to spur them on to actually go for a tinkle.

Do you have any potty training tips? Leave me a comment below.

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Getting #ASoundSleep with MattressNextDay

April 12, 2017 Jayne3 Comments

Ever since I was little, I’ve always preferred falling asleep with noise in the background, be it the telly playing or music, and Husband is the same. Over the years I’ve developed a preference for certain TV shows to watch in bed and fall asleep to and some of them have such a soporific effect on me now that I think watching them at ANY time of day would help me to drift off! MattressNextDay is currently running their #ASoundSleep campaign, asking people to share their aural bedtime preferences and I thought I’d give you a little run-down of my favourite shows to watch (or, mostly listen to!) in bed:

The Golden Girls

My current favourite bedtime viewing is the complete boxset of The Golden Girls. I absolutely ADORE this show and never fail to be impressed by the topics they tackled way back in the Eighties. There’s something about the incidental music that I find really comforting, which makes it the perfect show to drift off to.

The Good Life

This is probably one of my favourite TV shows of all time and even though there were only 30 episodes made between 1975 and 1978, I could probably watch them all on an endless loop! There’s something about the gentle humour and banter between Margot, Jerry, Tom and Barbara that makes me drift off to a restful slumber.

Red Dwarf

This one comes from when I was a kid – I was allowed to watch TV in bed on a Friday night, on an old black and white TV which used a dial to find the channel, and Red Dwarf was always on at 9pm, right after Gardeners World. I’d sit through the end of Alan Titchmarsh warbling on about hardy shrubs so that I could watch Red Dwarf straight after and would inevitably fall asleep within about 2 minutes of the show starting, but I still adore it to this day and get super-cosy vibes from the theme tune.

The Mighty Boosh

I’d never seen The Mighty Boosh until I met Husband but it soon became a huge favourite and I still watch it in bed fairly often. I absolutely adore the humour in the show and there are a couple of episodes that I can’t have on while I’m trying to doze off as I’d spend more time laughing than drifting off!

Alan Partridge

I’ve come to the conclusion that Alan Partridge is the televisual equivalent of Marmite – people seem to either love it or hate it, or at the very least can’t handle the sometimes ENORMOUS cringe-factor that Steve Coogan injects into his most famous character. However, it’s an all-time favourite of mine and I know the episodes so well that I could recite them in my sleep. It’s perfect for watching in bed and always sends me off with a little chuckle!

Are you a bedtime TV watcher? What graces your screens while you’re trying to doze off? I’d love to hear all about it so do leave me a comment below.

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My Dream Duvet Day

June 2, 2015June 11, 2015 JayneLeave a comment

When Husband and I were young and childless, we loved a duvet day (not like that, get your mind out of the gutter!). We’d spend all day lying around, watching movies, eating junk food and listening to music. It was pure bliss to only have ourselves to think of, and although I wouldn’t be without our girls for all the world, I do look back to those idyllic days with great fondness.

These days, my ideal duvet day would look very different and the people at Eve Mattress have asked me to tell you all about it, so that I can be in with the chance of winning one of their mattresses.

First of all, I’d need some help in the form of serious transportation. You see, my ideal duvet day wouldn’t happen in sunny, sunny Southend on Sea. Oh no. It would happen here:

That’s Vakarufalhi, the tiny little Maldivian island where Husband and I got married. Husband, the girls and I, as well as our dog Chuck, would need to get a plane, seaplane and boat all the way to the South Ari Atoll before we could enjoy our duvet day. Obviously, we wouldn’t need a 15 tog duvet, but a bed like this, on the beach with the waves lapping at the shore just meters away, would be an absolute must:

Husband and I could lounge on the bed, having someone bring us cocktails (in moderation, of course!) and freshly caught seafood while the girls paddled in the clear sea and Chuck dug in the white sand for hermit crabs.

For dinner, someone would bring us a platter of lobster, which had been caught off of the pier just an hour before and we’d enjoy it with lashings of melted butter, followed by fresh coconut ice cream.

Eventually, the sun would set and all five of us could snuggle up while the girls fell asleep and Husband and I could gaze at the billions of stars that it’s possible to see when there’s minimal light pollution. If we were really lucky, we may even get to sit on our beach bed and see a show of the bio-luminescent life that lives in the Indian Ocean and we could finish off our perfect duvet day watching it shine for us.

Failing all of this, I’d be happy with a day of watching Netflix in bed with Husband and the girls, with a steady stream of tea, bacon sandwiches and custard creams, while Chuck snoozes in his bed at our feet!

What would your perfect duvet day be?