The big Sleepyhead is allegedly suitable until they are three, but really, do you want a three-year-old that can't sleep in their bed without cushiony bumpers surrounding them? The covers are a pain to get on and off and wash, and so you try to cover them with a fitted sheet, but of course they don't fit properly, meaning the whole thing is a big bumpy mess. There's also the small matter of the weather - if it's warm, the Sleepyhead doesn't allow the air to circulate around your sleeping child, meaning one sweaty baby (and in our case, super curly hair in the morning - cute but still upsetting to see your baby drenched in sweat). It also becomes a pain when your baby learns to sit up and crawl, and thus decides to explore her cot in the night - turning upside down and crawling to the foot of the bed, but unable to settle because there's no Sleepyhead bumper at that end. Your baby is now totally used to turning about in her bed and bumping off the sides and without them, she feels lost, confused and uncomfortable. The next problem arises when you try to get your baby to nap somewhere else - in a travel cot at her grandparents' house for example, or on holiday - and you've neglected to bring the Sleepyhead. What thoughtful folk they are! And of course, you get a spare cover for another £493, because you just know there will be puke incidents. It's OK though, because you can go back to John Lewis or Amazon and spend EVEN MORE money on a giant version of the Sleepyhead.

So then you try to get them to sleep without it, and all hell breaks loose. It's all very well when you first tuck your little one in and feel pleased that they are all comfy and cosy in their cocoon. Not just in money (and it is stupidly expensive for what is essentially a fancy cushion). The problem with the Sleepyhead is that you pay a very heavy price for it. If my mum is reading this (hi Mum!) she'll be rubbing her hands and mouthing I told you so at the screen, no doubt.īut we live and learn. And if I could turn back the clock now, I'd buy a moses basket for Daph when she was first born, which I would put in the Chicco Next 2 Me at night time. But if I'm honest, I think a MOSES BASKET would have done much the same job. And it was useful in that we had it on the sofa with us a few times when Daph was napping. Of course, I went straight on Amazon after she'd left and bought us one (blame the new mum hormones - I was sucking up advice left right and centre like a very dry sponge). She said every mum and dad she saw nowadays had 'one of those cushion things, so you can have the baby sleeping next to you during the day'. It was the lactation consultant we saw when Daph was about five days old who first told me about the Sleepyhead. And I suppose it has been useful, but it's come at a price. The irony is that I think I wrote about this 'wonder product' in a post when Daph was tiny, calling it one of my most useful purchases. But my biggest regret, purchase wise, has to be the damn Sleepyhead. There are plenty of things that I can't imagine doing without - my Perfect Prep machine, for example, has been a lifesaver - but then there are other things, such as the Bumbo seat, which, while useful at the time, definitely wasn't an essential. I remember moaning about her point of view in one of my pregnancy updates, but now, I'm starting to come around to it. My mum had a point when she said there's a lot of baby 'stuff' available today that her generation coped perfectly well without. I'm not saying this product doesn't help others, just that we didn't need it and we are finding it incredibly hard to wean our baby off it, hence the title. This is a personal blog and I like to be honest about my experiences. Not sure why they chose to link to my blog post out of the blue, but I'd just like to say that the following is NOT meant to be an impartial review of the product, but just our personal experience of using it. *Hello everyone visiting from The Gentle Sleep Book FB page (there have been thousands of you!).

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