Sleep. A word that will run circles around your brain for the first months (or years!) of your child’s life. Much of the attention will be given to when your baby sleeps, how your baby gets to sleep and how long your baby sleeps for. What’s missing from this dialogue is one of the most important questions, where will your baby sleep?
Developed after years of observation by paediatric surgeon, Dannille Salducci, the COCOONaBABY nest is designed to recreate the contained feeling of the mother’s womb; a position which offers reassurance as your baby adjusts to life outside their mother’s bodies.
Ideal for premature babies and newborns, the nest is ultra soft and comfortable and positions baby in a semi-foetal, cradled posture with their shoulders and spine slightly rounded. This posture presents many advantages:
- It allows the child to touch their face and mouth as they did in the womb. They feel reassured and does not suffer from what is known as “the fear of falling into space”.
- It prevents the child from putting themselves into a batrachian posture which is detrimental to their well-being and physical development.
- It limits the risks of positional plagiocephaly– a cranium deformation known as flat head syndrome, commonly caused when your baby sleeps on their back on a traditional mattress.
- It improves both the quality and the length of time that baby sleeps since they feel reassured when in this posture.
- It frees and directs the child’s movements helping them to acquire good eye-hand coordination – so important for their future development.
- It improves the interactivity between the child and those around them. A child who sleeps flat on his back either looks at the ceiling or to one side only. Whereas lying in the COCOONaBABY® nest they can look straight in front of them and make easy eye contact, and can turn their head from side to side
- o follow someone’s movements.
The COCOONaBABY® should be used for both day naps and night sleeps until your child is able to change position, generally around 4 months.Given the cradled position of your baby when in the nest, you may find that swaddling is not necessary (as swaddling is just re-creating the ‘in arms’ feeling, that your nest is already providing.) - a removable wedge which enables the nest to adapt to the child’s size for the first 4 months.
- a white, made-to-measure Fleur de Coton® fitted cotton sheet.
- a Tummy Band which maintains the child in the ideal position yet does not restrict his movements.