Anyone who owns a memory foam mattress knows that once you’ve tried one, you never go back. In fact when Craig and I manage to palm off our little ones on some poor unsuspecting family member and sneak to a hotel for some couple time, we always do that pat and sit thing that people do in adverts, and have a whinge about the spring mattress.
I can’t pretend much sleeping goes on in our bed though. Sadly this isn’t because Craig and I are up to no good either. It’s because we have to share it with a child or two. Dexter sneaks in to our room at around 3.05am every morning, and we’re considering donating Heidi to medical research for studies in how a child can appear to develop normally despite getting sod all sleep. Like millions of people the world over, we’re slowly coming to the realisation that motherhood = end of sleep.
So the little sleep we do manage has to be quality sleep. We’d feel massively cheated it if weren’t the kids waking us at 5am but a draft or lumpy mattress. An acute lack of sleep really can affect your ability to function and I barely function under normal conditions anyway! Sleep is definitely the most valuable commodity on earth.
So when Dormeo recently offered us a replacement of our unbranded 3 year-old memory foam mattress, we bit their hands off. Our mattress was still in great nick, but I did spill coffee on it a few months back so it was stained. Call it OCD, but a marked mattress reminds me of cheap motels and student digs - it had to go.
Dormeo are mattress specialists and are sold by the likes of Furniture Village here in the UK. They provide high quality Italian-made memory foam mattresses at affordable prices. So confident are they in their mattresses they all come with a 15 year limited warranty, and 60-day ‘try it and see’ guarantee. There’s also free P&P on all mattresses on the website where you’ll also find shockingly good deals and a great variety of mattresses - whether you’re trying one out for the first time, or investing in their patented Octaspring memory foam spring technology.
We were sent the bestselling standard Dormeo Memory Foam Mattress which is recommended for those who like their mattress on the soft to medium side - ideal if you like to sleep on your tummy but prefer a softer mattress. Like all memory foams, it adapts to the shape of your body promising a comfortable night’s sleep.
This has a 2cm layer of visco-elastic memory foam sewn directly into the Florentine-stitched cover, with 12cm of Ecocell technology. Ecocell is a patented, unique, next generation foam designed to be permanently elastic with a 3D open cell structure. Billions of tiny bubbles in the Ecocell core, help cool fresh air to circulate, meaning you are less likely to overheat in bed. It also provides anti-bacterial, anti-microbial and anti-odour protection so helps deter those pesky dust-mites.
It has a total depth of 15cm making it less deep than our previous mattress, and to be honest, we have noticed the difference. Our bed frame is very low anyway, and with a shallower mattress we feel very close to the floor. We have also, on occasion, banged our knees climbing in and out of bed on the leather frame as it is quite deep in itself so the mattress only protrudes out of the top by around 5cm. This is our bed frame’s fault though as it was a hurried purchase and isn’t the best quality.
Although this mattress is shallower, you can’t knock how comfortable it is. Dormeo have incorporated a non-slip base ensuring it never moves or slips about when you slide into bed. Usually, when either one of us gets into bed I can feel everything. With Dormeo’s mattress I manage to sleep through Craig’s tossing and turning and my side of the bed stays perfectly still.
As with most memory foam mattresses ours came vacuum-packed for ease of delivery, maneuvering up stairs and moving into position. This means they come tightly rolled and will need 12 hours to properly ‘plump out’. You’re recommended not to sleep on it during this time so my hot tip to anyone buying a memory foam mattress is to get it into position in the morning so it’s ready for bedtime.
All in all it is on the shallow-side but it’s testament to the quality that you still achieve a fabulously comfy night’s sleep. I’m still carrying around lots of baby lbs (2 years on) and have G cup boobs so my back takes a real battering throughout the day - the extra support at night is definitely improving my posture and making me feel more rested. I won’t pretend I’m now attempting marathons or back-flipping my way through chores, but my bad back is definitely improving.
This one of Dormeo’s entry-level mattresses, from the Options range. This range has a variety of different ‘cores’ available at prices that won’t break the bank (ours starts from £149.99 for a single, £299.99 for a super-king - a saving of £150). Having bought memory foam mattresses for the last ten years, this is incredibly competitive and we’re now investing in a single mattress from Dormeo for Dexter to see if this will finally entice him back into his own bed! For vouchers codes and deals check out DealsDaddy.
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