Essential Sleep Items for Babies – Keep the Bed Bugs At Bay

3 November 2011

Essential Sleep Items for Babies – Keep the Bed Bugs At Bay

With all the planning for a new baby, it’s easy to overlook essentials like mattress protectors for your babies sleep-health, but, with a plague of bedbugs reported by hotels during the RWC, there’s now even more reason to care about the hygiene and safety of your baby and toddler’s mattress.

“A mattress protector should be on every new parent’s list of essentials,” says Treasure Vellis, Registered Nurse of Protect-A-Bed®, the world’s best-selling mattress protectors. Protect-A-Bed® makes a range of mattress protectors to fit all options of cots, bassinettes and cradles available, in nursery-friendly colours. They can even be used as a fitted sheet to save any additional purchases.

“We’ve noticed that most parents have a mattress protector on their own bed, but might not have considered it for their children’s mattresses, especially cot-mattresses, because they are needed for less time,” says Treasure “but parents need to consider it’s not just protection against stains from bedwetting and spilt bottles, but also protection for children against bed bugs and allergens such as dustmites and bacteria.”

All Protect-A-Bed®Mattress Protectors are made with Miracle Membrane™ and keep children comfortable and cool while preventing bacteria and dust mites breeding in your baby’s mattress (a major cause of asthma, eczema and rhinitis).

“One mum of a baby with eczema wrote to tell us that her baby’s skin had completely cleared up after one week using our tencel® (eucalyptus fibre) mattress protector,” says Treasure, whose products are tested by leading international entomologists and FDA approved in USA. The Tencel® mattress protectors are made from super-soft and have additional anti-bacterial and hypo-allergenic benefits.

The products in the Protect-A-Bed®’s Baby and Toddler range include terry cotton, quilted cotton and fully encased with BugLock protectors for cots, bassinettes and single beds. Protect-A-Bed®’s patented BugLock is a three-sided zipper and AllerZip® seal which gives a baby or child total protection against dust mites, allergens and bed bugs. AllerZip® mattress encasement is completely Bed Bug entry, escape and bite proof.

The Linen Protector/Drawsheet holds up to 1litre of liquid and is easily removed in cases of bedwetting so is an essential bedwetting tool.

Naomi Ellis, a mother of seven, says as well as the health benefits, the terry toweling with the breathable Miracle Membrane® technology instead of plastic, made the whole bed feel “so much nicer and completely silent”.

ESSENTIAL SLEEP ITEMS FOR BABIES

• A cot that meet NZ standards
• Natural fibre linen and sleepwear
• Movement and sound monitor
• Protect-A-Bed® mattress protector
• Mobile and artwork around the room for visual and sensory stimulation
• A comfortable chair for parents
• Parenting books about sleep that identify sleep cues
• Music to use for lullabies
• Black-out material on curtains for night-time sleep conditions all day

The Protect-A-Bed® baby and child range are sold through Baby City, Baby Factory, Farmers, Boutique Department store Smith & Caugheys & Kirkcaldies and leading nursery boutiques nationally with prices starting from RRP$12.95.

Sleep health and product enquiries can be directed Protect-A-Bed®’s Registered Nurse at healthysleep@protectabed.co.nz or www.protectabed.co.nz.

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