Description
During the 12th/13th week of pregnancy your baby will more than likely have assumed a three quarter lying position-and so he remains until shortly before birth in that position - a position that is so comfortable, secure and perfect.
Natures Nest is the only baby bed designed to create a womb like effect, here baby can still enjoy what nature provided a snug tactile environment, with a gentle vertical and bouncing motion. These motions replicate the movement within the womb (as mother moves walks or drives in the car), also producing feelings of suspension and floatation.
Your baby will lie with his upper body slightly raised, a position he is in once cradled in your arms. This is the perfect environment for babies and can pacify the most distressed infant. As your baby moves the bed will move with him often lulling him back to sleep, babies sleeping in the Natures Nest will be content and happy whilst awake, having had a restful sleep, and reducing your sleep deprivation enables you to enjoy your new baby.
Once placed in the Natures Nest, it is virtually impossible for your newborn to turn onto his tummy keeping baby in the recommended supine position (on the back).
The Natures Nest is the natural transition from the womb to the outside world, opposed to conventional baby beds, in the Natures Nest your baby will feel the sensation of being cradled in your arms and offer your baby the motions and security they once felt within the womb. Giving you and your baby a blissful nights sleep and contented happy days.
Simple and Safe, Natures Nest gives your baby the best chance to start life blissfully contented, perfectly well adjusted and predisposed to healthy growth and development. It is the most logical and natural transition from the womb to the outside world during that critical first year of life !
The Natures Nest gives your baby the best possible start in life.
We recommend using the Natures Nest from birth, as babies will immediately benefit from its uniquely tactile and soothing environment, giving baby the best sleep possible. However a large number of parents with older babies turn to the Natures Nest when their baby is not sleeping well, the improvements the Natures Nest has brought to their babies and to thefamily as a whole is truly astonishing.
Guidelines
Reflux in Babies
Reflux in babies - Reflux simply describes a flow of liquid in the wrong direction. Reflux is more common in pre term babies, but can occur in up to 20% of all babies.
The Natures Nest really can help to pacify and sooth babies suffering with reflux, experts will tell you that a semi upright position is an effective way of relieving the discomfort and reducing the symptoms of reflux, the Natures Nest keeps babies in this semi upright position whilst they sleep which makes a perfect sleeping environment for babies. The Natures Nest is tactile snug and secure which can sooth even the most irritable of babies, in effect they will cry less which is vital for a babies with reflux, as crying will aggravate reflux.
Although babies love the bouncing motion of the Natures Nest we DO NOT recommend you bounce babies in the Natures Nest if they have reflux, as you will find any bouncing motion will aggravate reflux, they will find the bouncing great fun when they have out grown the reflux. Along with using the Natures Nest the following will help relieve some of the symptoms during baby’s waking hours:
- When possible use a sling, your body heat and movement may help
- Gently massaging the baby's tummy in a clockwise circular movement, massaging in this direction will help to release trapped air and ease pain
- Give him or her a dummy to suck on, this will help to sooth your baby
- Wind before, during and after feeds
- If baby tends to feed too fast, try and slow him down
- Take a shower together - the warm water may be comforting
Colic in babies
Colic in babies - A baby suffering with colic will be uncomfortable and distressed unable to soothe himself. It can be equally distressing for a parent listening to their baby cry for hours knowing they are in such discomfort, this often leading to parents feeling upset and inadequate.
The Natures Nest can help to pacify and soothe babies suffering with colic, experts will tell you to rock your baby back and forth and gently bounce him, this is precisely what the Natures Nest does the gentle back and forth motion can soothe even the most irritable baby. Being suspended from a spring enables you to gently bounce baby which has a calming effect and can help to relieve trapped air bubbles from babies intestines easing his discomfort.
The symptoms of colic are more intense during the night so the Natures Nest is the perfect bed. During baby’s waking hours the following will help in relieving some of the symptoms:
- When possible use a sling, the body heat and
movement may help.
- Gently massaging the baby's tummy has been
discovered to help in some cases. Massage in a circle moving your hand from left to right. This is where the large intestine lies in the child's stomach and massaging in this direction will ease the pain by helping release trapped air.
- Give him or her a dummy to suck on.
- Wind baby not only after feeding but before and during feeds.
- If baby tends to feed too fast, try and slow hum down.
- Take a shower together - the warm water may be comforting.
Features
Safety Tests & Standards
The Amby Motion bed has been tested both nationally and internationally by product standards in the UK, US and Japan. The Amby hammock and accessories are made with high quality material. The award winning design has proved to be most successful. The Amby Natures Nest and accessories have been approved for safety according to the standards set by the european union.
1. There shall be no open end tubes, projections, holes, loose washers, nuts or crevices in which a child's finger(s) or flesh could be trapped when the Amby Motion Bed is assembled for use. All edges, corners and projecting parts that are accessible shall be free from burrs and shall not be capable of causing a wound or abrasion.
Assessment: Pass
2. Any permanent fixture that can be gripped by a child's fingers or teeth shall be attached to the Amby Motion Bed in such a manner that it cannot be removed or broken when a force of 90N is applied in any direction to the part.
Assessment: Pass
3. The following test is taken from BS 5799: 1986 Safety Requirements for children's high chairs and multi purpose high chairs for domestic use. See Clause 5,8,1-Appendix M. The above states that when tested by the method in Appendix M the frame shall not tip over.
Assesment Pass
The details of the 15 kg test dummy used were stated in Appendix E of the above specification.
4. The strength of the Amby Motion Bed frame was assessed by attachment of a 40 kg load to the high tensile spring for a period of one hour. The load was then removed and the frame steel tubing and spring were inspected for any structural damage or permanent distortion.
Assessment: Pass
5. The strength of the Nest bed (hammock) and metal cross strut was assessed by placing a load of 25 kg evenly across the mattress while suspended from the spring for a period of eight hours. The load was then removed and the Nest bed and metal cross strut were inspected for any structural damage or permanent distortion.
Assessment: Pass
6. The instructions supplied were considered to contain adequate information on it's safe use, assembly, operation and maintenance.
The instructions were written in English.
Prepared by : P. Smith
Authorized by : R J Hardy
Issue date: 18th August 1993
