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HONEST SLEEPHEAD DELUXE REVIEW 2021
hi everyone it's shana welcome back to
my channel i really hope you are well
in today's video i'm going to be
reviewing the sleepy head
deluxe sleeping pod
i'm not sure if the camera's picking it
up but the sleepy head that i currently
have is a little bit discolored now
just because i have had lots of views
out of it and my baby obviously being a
baby of ethnicity
wears a lot of hair oil and had a lot of
hair oil in his hair especially in the
early days
so i believe that it's discolored
because of the olive oil that used to
have in his hair
a stain that i am struggling to get out
to this day
but we move so what is the sleepy head
well the sleepy head basically
is a kind of like a sleeping pod slash
newborn nest however you want to word it
and it basically is designed
to let the baby sleep in here and rest
in here when they are
quite young and it just keeps them a bit
more cocooned
and gives them a feeling of a bit more
security because you've got to imagine
the baby has been
in the womb for nine months obviously
during the later stages of pregnancy
they are
very much curled up and confined and
then for them to be thrust into the real
world
and for them to be in open space it can
be a little bit
um traumatizing obviously for the baby
um and
swaddling them and keeping them
obviously close to you and then when
they can't be on you all the time
it's nice for them to feel a bit more
secure so this is basically what this
is designed for just to keep them more
secure
and feel comfortable when they are
directly away from the mum
so this particular one um i believe
there is actually another one called the
sleepy sleepyhead deluxe
plus but they're all the same to be
honest i don't see the difference
between the original the deluxe and the
deluxe plus so i don't think it matters
which one you get
this one currently is still retailing
for 130 pounds which is
absolutely extortionate in my opinion
um and also it only this
is all that it comes with this is just
the sleepy head on its own
and this is a removable cover which i'll
show you how to take off
later on in this video and but the
covers that come separately to this
um vary between 55 and 65 pound
so this is not something that you need
to purchase
especially if you are a new parent on a
budget but if you want to splash out or
don't mind
then i would say that it's an okay
thing to have but it's definitely not an
essential so this is from
birth to six months so in the grand
scheme of the time period of your baby's
life it
is not a very long period of time that a
baby is going to use something that's so
expensive
from having used this from birth to
about seven months my son was about
seven months when i actually stopped
using that with him
um basically when he could comfortably
roll over on his own
and i wouldn't really recommend having a
baby older than seven months in one of
these whether you get the larger one or
not so in terms of practicality i really
enjoyed using it i like the fact that
you could put it in the next to me crib
which we had for six months when the
baby was in our room
um i also liked the fact that you could
take it downstairs you could sit next to
the baby and the baby doesn't have to be
on you directly or being held it can
just lie in the sleepy head next to you
on the sofa and
of course don't put them on the sofa if
they are able to roll or move in any way
this mainly is the safest for the baby
when the baby is stationary i will also
say
that if you mention the sleepy head to
your health visitor or your midwife
you'll probably get a funny look and you
will probably get
in it's a no from me vote um so
you go by your own motherly instinct and
your discretion it's totally up to you
personally from being a mum who has used
it i do recommend them but i don't
recommend the branded one
because there are lots of these baby
nests out there now which are a lot
cheaper
so for those of you who just found this
video and don't know anything about me
uh i have a son whose name is crew and
he's 13 months old
crew wasn't a difficult sleeper when he
was a newborn but obviously being a
breastfeeding mum
and obviously your sleep is a lot more
disturbed when
you are constantly having to feed the
baby at night time as well
um we gave it about two to three weeks
and then we thought we would try the
baby with the sleepy head
very kindly and conveniently we were
gifted this sleepy head from a friend
who um had previously bought it for her
baby and her baby had only used it a few
times
so she very kindly gave it to us free of
charge which was really really nice of
her
again i have to express that 130 pounds
is exceptionally
expensive for something that doesn't
actually do anything apart from keep
your baby
still but i have to say that for me
personally
and for my baby it did help him to sleep
and feel a bit more cocooned
we did try the swaddling for a few weeks
when crew was
very very teeny tiny when he was just
born um up until he was about seven
weeks old
and crew didn't like the swaddle at all
he liked to have his
legs and his arms free but he liked to
be wrapped in blankets but i think he
just like the fact that he had the
freedom to move his arms and legs as
and when he wanted to whereas the
swaddle literally is like a straight
jacket so some babies really like that
but crew didn't
so we thought we'd then try with the
sleepy head to see if that affected his
sleeping in any way
from our personal experience it did make
crews sleep for longer periods of time
but of course a newborn is not really on
average going to sleep for eight hours a
day until they are at least
three to four months old you can try all
the tricks in the book but if a baby is
awake a baby's awake and there's nothing
you could do about it
i would highly recommend you wait until
your baby is born so you can get to know
them get to know their pattern a little
bit more
and see if they like to be swaddled if
they don't if they prefer to sleep
um in their cot or if like there's loads
of different trials and errors that
you're going to go through in the first
10 weeks of being a new parent
so see how your baby is in terms of
sleep first and what they like and what
they don't like
and then if you are struggling to get
the baby to settle for more than an hour
a night
at a time then i would recommend getting
some kind of baby nest
for you to try to help them to sleep a
bit longer so the positive thing about
the sleepy head of course is that you
can
remove the um the cover so
you can unzip the cover all the way
around and you can
hand wash the padded base which is the
part in the middle
and you can also hand wash the cover i
believe you can wash it at 40 degrees
you can also
use different stain removers um to
obviously
freshen up the sleepy head please bear
in mind that your baby
will throw up on it and your baby will
put on it at some point
i would highly recommend using a muslin
square when your baby is in the sleepy
head just to
stop it from getting dirty and it also
stops you from having to constantly take
the cover on and off to wash it
i have to say that the cover is very
irritating to get on and off um
and it's just very fiddly and
time-consuming and when you've got a new
baby it's not something that you need to
be wasting time on
so i definitely recommend wrapping the
sleepy head up in one or two muslin
cuffs
just to protect the sleepy head from
getting dirty there are lots of mixed
reviews with the sleepy head or any type
of baby nest
of course you do your research and see
if it works for you
crew really enjoyed resting in here and
playing in here when he was younger
and it just gave me peace of mind that
if he was in his car and i needed to
putter around the room doing things that
he
he was going to be safe in here and he
wasn't going to roll um
too quickly and fall out of the car
basically of course like i previously
mentioned it is important to make sure
that you have your baby as
close as possible to you when the baby
is in here just as a safety aspect
and make sure you don't leave the baby
alone at any time in the sleepy head
even when they are of a young age
the sleepy head are the bottom clips
together um just to
make the sleepy head a little bit
smaller and then of course when the baby
starts to grow a bit longer when they
hit about four to five months old
you can unclip the sleepy head to give
them more space to kick their legs
around
so overall do i believe the sleepyhead
works yes in terms of helping your baby
feel a little bit more secure and but of
course
all babies are different and just
because one mom says that their baby
slept through the night in a sleepy head
doesn't mean that yours will either is
it value for money
absolutely not it is very expensive and
the covers are very expensive as well so
is it worth the investment of 135 pounds
absolutely not i wouldn't recommend
buying this at all in terms of the price
um if you go on etsy if you go on lots
of different
um baby websites there are loads of
similar
baby nests that are a fraction of the
price so do your research
they all pretty much do the same thing i
really hope this short review was
helpful in some way
if you have any questions of anything
that i haven't touched upon on this
video
then please leave a comment below and i
will answer as soon as i see it
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