our thoughts on the snuzpod

I feel like I could really write this entire review in just three words... We love it!

But that doesn't really do a very thorough job of it, and it definitely doesn't do the SnuzPod justice.

I originally planned to write up my thoughts on the Snuz quite a while back when Ashlyn was still very new (like in that top picture - just look how teeny she was!). I mentioned it in my post on how we helped our baby sleep and in my 10 best baby products vlog too, but I decided to hold off a bit on doing my full review. Newborns spend their lives in a cycle of sleep, feed, nappy change, sleep, feed, nappy change, sleep... they aren't the best test subjects. At least Ashlyn wasn't, she just slept whenever and wherever she wanted to. So she was hardly a good judge of what made a good crib. That being said even as a teeny baby, she definitely seemed to prefer snoozing in the SnuzPod to anywhere else, and always had her longest naps in there compared to sleeping in her carrycot, bouncy chair or in our arms.

For anyone who isn't familiar with the SnuzPod concept; it is a bedside crib that attaches onto the side of the parents' bed to keep baby close at night, but with a space all their own. It features a zip down side which allows you to move baby to and from your own bed with ease (definitely a great feature for those inevitable night feeds.) It is technically a 3 in 1 crib, because as well as being used as a bedside crib, it can be used as a stand alone crib or the top bassinet part can be taken off to use alone, for naps elsewhere in the house for example.

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three and a quarter

In the quarter year since your birthday you had changed so much.

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forty-one weeks new

Our little lady was properly on the move.

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thirty-eight weeks new

We had been edging ever closer, and you had finally cracked it.

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thirty-five weeks new

You were changing and growing and surprising us constantly.

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thirty-three weeks new

You were growing more amazing and more adorable with each day.

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thirty-one weeks new

We were having more and more adventures with you now.

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twelve weeks new

We were really settling into life as a four.

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nine weeks new

It seemed incredible to think you had been in the world for two months already.

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six weeks new

You were getting so big, literally.

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sleepy bear

There is nothing as beautiful and peaceful on this earth

as watching a baby sleep.

I watch both my babies sleeping before I head to bed myself each night,

they look so innocent, perfect and totally relaxed in their slumber

and it send me happily into the land of nod to see them looking so precious.

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one week new

You came into the world and captured our hearts completely.

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your seventeenth month

You personality was blossoming before our very eyes.

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your fifteenth month

We had been starting to wonder if it would ever happen.

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inspired - a dreamy living room

Last week's first ever inspired was a feast of colour.

Very unlike me I'm sure you'll agree

because I am the lady who loves white.

So this week I'm going back to what I know and love,

the bestest, the beautifulest 

and quite frankly 

the only colour to really rock my world;

white.

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your fortieth week

We had all reached a big milestone.

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"my biggest pet peeve is..."

. . . people giving their parenting opinions a little too freely,

and meanly.

Just to be clear, 

I do know that this is par for the course

when you become a new parent.

But it can be so frustrating in those early days 

to be told by a random lady in the supermarket, 

how her daughter managed to get her baby to sleep in the buggy 

by using a specific brand of dummy.

Or when complete strangers diagnose your baby with colic 

just by the sound of their cry.

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your twenty-third week

You seemed to be getting more and more mobile all the time.

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