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Babies will sleep easy – and that is official!
A mum's invention of a mattress that helps babies go to sleep more quickly has had a scientific stamp of approval.
Mum-of-six Lynda Harding is jumping for joy after hearing the news.
The 44-year-old came up with the idea of a musical rocking mattress after struggling for years to get her children off to sleep.
The product is fitted with a sound machine which produces the sound of a heartbeat combined with either the sound of rain, a vacuum cleaner, or a harp.
But Mrs Harding never dreamed that her Easidream invention would be so effective.
Trials by Brighton University have showed the mattress is a winner when getting babies off to sleep and could even reduce the risk of cot death.
The two-week trials were carried out at Purbrook's Woodside Nursery School, which is run by Mrs Harding, from Waterlooville, and tested the mattress on 14 babies.
Babies without the Easidream spent an average of 18 minutes crying , compared with under a minute when sleeping on the mattress.
All babies remained happy and stayed on their backs.
Mum Jane Hale, 32, was stunned when her baby Isabelle fell asleep in just two minutes on the mattress – compared with 17 minutes in her cot at home.
Mrs Hale, of Liverpool Road, Fratton, Portsmouth, said: 'She absolutely loved it and I am chuffed to bits.
'She always likes being rocked around in her pram.
'Before it would take a while, but she fell asleep in two minutes every time.'
Now the product has been proven to work, Mrs Harding aims to get the mattress on the shelves by this summer.
She said: 'I'm thrilled to bits.
'When you put forward a product for research you always have a little doubt in the back of your mind.'
And she added: 'From my point of view I'm thrilled with the report in terms of positive findings concerning a breakthrough in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
'The fact that Easidream actively encourages parents to follow the correct sleep guidelines has got to be something to shout about.
'Even if just one baby's live is saved through Easidream, then I feel that is a fantastic achievement.'
EMULATES THE WOMB
The Easidream, which won a national award, works by replicating the conditions in the womb.
Researchers have suggested that babies are born three months, or one trimester, too soon and because of this it is helpful to try to replicate the experience of the womb.
Because babies are in almost constant rocking motion in the womb – which is a muscular sac which contracts – any rocking makes the baby feel comfortable.
The baby can feel the mother's heart beating when it is in the womb, so anything that recreates the heartbeat will soothe a baby.
Research also shows that 'shushing' noises soothe a baby by recreating the sounds of blood rushing through arteries surrounding the womb.
For more information about Easidream check out easidream.com
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