Chances are, when you first brought your baby home, you were willing to do just about anything to help him or her fall asleep. For many, rocking your baby to sleep, or using another kind of rhythmic movement, works as a natural sleep aid, since it reminds them of being inside their mother’s body.
Soothing an infant
While some babies have a strong preference for one particular type of movement, the truth is, there are many ways to soothe an infant. In addition to swaying him or her in your arms or rocking your baby to sleep in a chair, some parents bounce while wearing the infant in a carrier, push the little one in the stroller, or even drive around town with the baby strapped into a car seat.
There are plenty of products that facilitate rocking, vibrating, and swinging, too, including basinets, bouncers, and swings that can work manually, as well as automatically. The one common theme is that babies love to move, you can read more about it on National Sleep Foundation website.
It’s not just the little ones
We know babies benefit from being rocked to sleep and now a study suggests it helps adults sleep better too. Researchers from the University of Geneva built a special bed that rocked gently throughout the night.
They tested it on 18 young adults and found they woke up fewer times and slept more deeply than on a normal bed. Scientists said the rocking motion resulted in a longer period of slow brainwaves which caused deep sleep, and improved their memory.
The volunteers spent three nights at a sleep laboratory in Geneva, one to get them used to sleeping there, one on a rocking bed and the other on the same bed, but in a still position. Electrodes recorded their brainwaves, and found that the period of deep sleep was extended by rocking.
Rocking features on pram
The rocking feature was important when designing the Babylimo because of how it promotes a better, deeper sleep, especially early on. Creating rocking features for both the carrycot and for the car seat was such a fun thing to do!
Additionally, the Babylimo frame has built-in two suspensions, that will allow you to rock your baby on a walk as well as 4 shock absorbers to help keep your baby more comfortable.
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