Safe, Snug & Sleeping

Advantages: Baby Sleeps! You Sleep!
Disadvantages: They don't make them in adult sizes!

...The most precious thing in a parent’s life is their newborn baby. The second most precious thing in their lives is sleep. Nothing really prepares you for the levels of sleep deprivation that is experienced in the first few weeks of a newborns life. When you are going through the routine of waking several times a night, not having reached the stage of developing any kind of ‘routine’ you can really feel like it’s never going to end. The ultimate goal and the ‘promised land’ of your baby ‘sleeping through’ feel an immeasurable distance away. However, those early weeks can be short lived and some babies do sleep through from an early age. The question is how can we encourage them to do this sooner rather than later. One very simple thing you can do that is quite inexpensive is to invest...

charis18uk 22.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Grobag Sleeping Bag

I was their sleeping beauty!

Advantages: Clean and tidy and very friendly.
Disadvantages: No restaurant.

...Around four months ago I travelled to London to do a photo shoot, I was very excited as I had been out of modelling for a while but I was also very nervous as I had not worked with the photographer before and was staying in a hotel I had never used before also. The shoot went very well and the hotel I stayed in was beautiful so all was good in the end. The hotel in question was the Sleeping Beauty Hotel; Ciao has called it the sleeping beauty motel but it was definitely hotel on the brochure, anyway never mind. The hotel is situated in Leyton which is in the East of London, so not a hotel you would be likely to use for a typical sightseeing holiday to London as you are well away from the attractions. Nearby the hotel is a KFC, a Wetherspoon`s bar, a Tesco store and a closed down Woolworths, so nothing too exciting but this was...

candy-pink 29.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sleeping Beauty Motel, London

A Good Nights Sleep

Advantages: Moulds easily to body shape, comfortable
Disadvantages: Bit bulky

...Although pregnancy is a wonderful experience, it?s not always the most comfortable. Finding a comfortable position to sleep can be difficult, especially in the final months, even if you don?t have any additional problems. And if you do suffer from a problem such as Symphis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD) then it?s almost impossible to sleep without suffering from severe pain. This is where the Mothercare Sleep Body Pillow comes into it?s own. The size of the box the Sleep Pillow is vacuum packed in totally belies the actual size of the pillow. I was a little shocked when my partner brought it home, it was hard to believe that such a large product could be so easily carried back from the shop. On opening the box it was easy enough to open up the plastic packaging (using a pair of scissors) and the pillow ?re-inflated? almost immediately...

sandemp 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mothercare Sleep Body Pillow

Sleeping with ghosts...

Advantages: if you like the old Placebo, get this too
Disadvantages: none really.

...Placebo - 'Sleeping With Ghosts' This has been hiding in my collection for sometime and to be honest before now I'd never given it a proper listen to. Well apart from skipping to 'The Bitter end' and a couple of others. Well...WOW ! 'Bulletproof Cupid' first on the play starts slow like your more classic placebo stuff then with a drum beat that kicks in the rest, music. Guitar drums sounds - an amazing track that has no words - unless I missed them?- just a rocking good tune showing off the talent of the music behind Moloko. English Summer Rain' by contrast begins sounding like a dance remix track to me - does improve though. When the guitar jumps in. If listening through headphones sounds way better as it skips from ear to ear right through your head.. "...I'm in the basement baby, your in the sky...I'm in the basement baby...

The-ex-Raven 12.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sleeping With Ghosts - Placebo

Grobag baby sleeping bags are fantastic!

Advantages: easy to use, helpful, fantastic ranges
Disadvantages: may look a little like a dress on boys!

...The grobag is a fantastic invention which stops the constant getting up and down in the night to put the blankets back over your baby when they manage to kick them off in the night. Grobags are baby sleeping bags which fasten at the shoulders and are worn almost like a dress/dungarees. They come in different thickness- Tog rating- like a quilt. So you are able to decide which tog rating is needed, for example, in the summer when it's warm you will only need a 1tog or if it's colder you may need a 3tog. They come in different patterns and designs so you may chose whether you want a girlie pink one or a boy blue one etc. The main purpose of these grobags is to stop the baby from getting cold during the night as they may do with a blanket. Babies do not sleep soundly constantly, they do toss and turn and are able to shift themselves...

lorriellah 10.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Grobag Sleeping Bag

MY LIFE SAVINGS FOR A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP!

Advantages: Security, comfort and aid to a bed time routine
Disadvantages: Not necessarily the way to a good nights sleep

...When a newborn baby arrives in your home you will try anything to get a good nights sleep. I would have quite happily handed over my life savings (£100!), four weeks after my daughter's birth to anyone willing to take over those bone numbingly exhausting night after night, night duties. At some point during those early weeks or possibly before you will probably have found your way onto the mailing list of the Grobag baby sleeping bag company, now called Bumps to 3. A bright little catalogue will fall through your door which when opened will promise you the earth if you put your baby in one of their specially designed Grobag Sleeping Bags. Being desperate, I ordered one and with it being the hottest summer on record last year I didn't get to use it properly until my baby was around 12 weeks old. It cost £29...

inycon2 04.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Grobag Sleeping Bag

The Big Sleep

Advantages: (+) outstanding read (+) excellent and creative/unique plot (+) addictive
Disadvantages: (-) extremely confusing and difficult to keep track of (and to summarise in the review!)

.... BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Big Sleep is a novel first published in 1939, followed by a couple of film versions - one in 1945 and the second in 1978. This is actually the first Chandler novel to feature Philip Marlowe, the famous detective. This particular novel is notoriously cokmplex and difficult to follow though has been named as Chandler's best works. Not solely this, it was also awarded the TIME magazine award for Best 100 novels 1923-2005. The novel begins in mid-October. Philip Marlowe is hired by the old, ailing General Sternwood to help him "take care of" Arthur Gwynn Geiger. Geiger is a homosexual (has been considered to be bisexual) pornographer who has been blackmailing the General with potentially scandalous pictures of the General's daughter, Carmen Sternwood. Marlowe agrees to help. This first task becomes...

vcarina88x 12.01.2009 (11.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

safe snuggle sleep

Advantages: easy and safe
Disadvantages: none

...The grobag is a fantastic idea ,i had never heard of it when i had my first daughter 10 yrs ago,then when i had my second daughter in 2004 my aunt bought her one and iv never looked back. As far as i know the grobag comes in 3 sizes 0-6 mths,6-18mths and 18-36mths.The grobag comes in three tog levels,0.5(for summer)1.0(for a cooler summer)and finally 2.5 (for winter). The grobag that i have been using comes with a centre zip,so it really easy to put your baby in it whilst they are sleeping and also quick and easy to get them out of it. It is a very safe alternative to blankets ,shawel etc as the baby cant pull it over there head. The grobag is machine washable at 40 degrees and you can put it in the tumble dryer so quick to wash and dry which makes it easier on us overworked mums lol. The grobag is priced between 17-40 pounds...

SHELLY78 30.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Grobag Sleeping Bag

Cosy sleeping

Advantages: keeps baby cosy
Disadvantages: None

...In the Night garden sleeping bag One of my more recent purchases for baby grandson. I bought this, not for him to sleep in when in bed but rather for when he is just lolling about during the day- which he does a lot of! They never had these when my children were babies so I became quite interested in the concept of putting a small person into what effectively looks like a grow bag. It is however, a sleeping bag designed obviously for baby to sleep in. The theory behind the sleeping bag is to keep babies at the correct temperature and because it fastens with press studs over the shoulders like a vest, there is no chance of baby getting the covering over their face. The sleeping bag is loose fitting and definitely not the same shape as "normal" sleeing bags becasue these are wider towards the bottom so that baby has plenty...

danielalong 09.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of In the Night Garden Baby Sleeping Bag

Sleep?!!

Advantages: Do not taste or smell unpleasant
Disadvantages: Didn't work for me.

...Kalms sleep are "a traditional herbal remedy" which contains plant ingredients which are thought to promote a natural sleep. PLEASE NOTE: It is wise consult a doctor before taking any kind of medication, herbal or otherwise. PACKAGING: The pills come in a glass jar with a plastic screw-top (which isn't child-proof, so best keep it out of harm's way - even if it is herbal!) The jar is very easy to open and close. INGREDIENTS: Valerian powdered extract Passiflora Powdered extract Wild Lettuce Powdered extract Vervain Powder Powedered Hop Strobile Sucrose WHO IS THIS PRODUCT SUITABLE FOR? Healthy adults who have problems going to sleep or getting an adequate amount of sleep each night. THE PRODUCT: Kalms sleep take the form of round pills, smaller than the size of a smartie. The pills are grey in colour and are...

Cathiedeee 29.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sleep from Kalms