The Wean and Dream Team!

For those of you who may wonder just who 'The Wean and Dream Team' are, then look no further than the photo below...







The fabulous Tilly Beazeley of course adds the Wean... whilst I contribute the Dream.

We are available for bookings (be quick our diaries are almost full for 2010) and are the new Ant and Dec of the nursery world!!

'New Year Cheer' from our very first easidream cutomer!

Happy New Year to all.. I had a marvellous email today that really has made a great start to 2010 here at easidream...

Dear Lynda,

Happy New Year to you - it is has started fabulously for us! I just cannot tell you how much joy Easidream has brought us. After a night of little sleep we received the package by post, ripped it open immediately and the Dad had it installed under the mattress in less then 5 minutes. We were surprised to see that the rocking motion was much less pronounced then we had expected and holding my ear close to mattress I could only hear a light purring sound.

Our 7 week old is absolutely startled each time when we put her on it and it is astonishing how it completely changes her mood in an instant. Being able to do so at will is the most valuable gift. It doesn't take 20 seconds and the beautiful rocking motion has her eyes glazed over with a contented face, without a dummy. Ewan, the sheep, glows gently and looks such a darling that he instantly became part of the family. With the different music and atmospheric noise settings he does much more than making sure the baby gets to sleep calmly and predictably. Before Easidream we used soft music toys as a sleeping aid, but sadly the music is simply too short to maintain sleep into its solid phase, so you end up going in and putting them on again and again. But Ewan has staying power and finishes his job off properly :)

During the day Ewan takes his place in the buggy about town and is great for a visit to the grandparents or the doctors. He is Easidream-peace on the go. He is fantastic!The Easidream unit with Ewan is a real joy to use and really, really worth getting.... in fact, truly, well worth having waited for!Thank you for your invention and getting it to market just in time for us.

Ann

What can I say Ann? Emails like yours really do make all the hard work getting easidream to market worth while.... thanks so much for taking the time to write to me.

Here's to a great 2010 for us all.

Very best wishes

Lynda

ewan at work...

Just had to post this... here's another great snap of ewan at work!! Bless....

Rachel lends a helping hand!

For those of you who are following me, I apologise for not being able to do any posts for the last week or so... my Internet crashed which, as you can imagine, was a complete disaster!! Anyway, we are now back fully up and running YEY!!


I recently attended a business meeting in Watford with the totally fab Rachel Elnaugh who I am fortunate enough to have mentoring me.

She was completely fantastic, extremely professional and incredibly adept in all things related to marketing easidream. I felt very privileged to have her at the meeting.

Rachel has spent the last few years helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals, positively energising them along the way. She really is an inspiration and after spending even a small amount of time with her you feel uplifted, empowered and full of positive energy.

I would thoroughly recommend any budding mumpreneurs out there to visit Rachel's website to find out more.

Thanks so much Rachel for all your positive input with easidream.

Hope you all have a wonderful week,

Lynda

ewan the wonder sheep!!

Just had to let you see the amazing effect that ewan is having on LO's all over the UK.

Here are a few pics showing just how effective he can be for a range of ages... thanks Natalie aka Soph4Soph, you are a star for taking these shots for me!

We need sleep!

Here's another great article, this time from today's Daily Mail, highlighting the serious effects of sleep deprivation.

Even more reason to invest in an easidream maybe?

Good snooze guide to help parents of fractious babies
by JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail

Edited extracts appear below:

More than a million parents with babies endure months of sleep loss which can damage their health and threaten their marriages.

But three quarters could and should be getting a good night's rest, say experts.

'The tragic thing about parental sleep deprivation is that much of it is treatable and even preventable using simple and clinically proven techniques,' said Dr David Haslam, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners and patron of the charity Cry-sis.

Figures show that 1.2million adults with infants of under 18 months are regularly being kept awake at night. However, exhaustion is regarded as unavoidable by most new parents who simply 'grin and bear it'.

Dr Haslam said in persistent cases many parents suffer severe effects from sleep deprivation, including long-term health problems and even relationship breakdowns.

The NHS spends around £65million annually to provide support for new parents faced with infant crying and sleeping problems in children from birth to 12 weeks.

'An estimated 1.2million UK parents each year are being woken regularly but at least 700,000 are suffering needlessly,' she said.

'Prolonged sleep deprivation can have devastating effects --that's why it has been used in the past as a form of torture --and yet this problem is all too often regarded as a joke.

Jacqui McGreavey, coordinator of the Tayside Group of Sleep Clinics and researcher into sleep problems, said: 'The stress of long-term night crying in babies can lead to a range of extremely serious problems including child abuse, ill health, marriage and relationship breakdown and inability to function at work.

Serious stuff.... need I say more?

Nighttime waking vital for baby sleep

I really think Dr Sears 8 Infant Sleep Facts is well worth a read as it pretty well sums up the underlying principle behind easidream and why we have developed it in such a way so as NOT to run continuously through the night OR have a remote control..... Why? Because


nighttime waking has major survival benefits.


In the first few months of a baby's life their needs are the highest, but their ability to communicate these needs are the lowest! So, you can see that it's vitally important for young babies to wake during their periods of light sleep, otherwise there is a danger that some of their basic needs could go unfulfilled.


Following one of these nighttime wakings, after checking that your baby's needs have been met, easidream is of course great for encouraging your precious little bundle to then drift gently back into a peaceful sleep!