Baby Shower Gifts that Keep on Giving

It is no surprise that new parents often experience sleep difficulties, with reports suggesting that they get an average of four hours and 44 minutes of sleep per night during the first year of their baby's life. If you are seeking a baby shower gift that will make a difference to the early months of parenthood and beyond, Lumie lights give the gift of easier nights.

First, lets delve into how they actually work!

Lumie wake-up lights are designed to align with the body's circadian rhythm, and prompt your body’s natural physiological response to dusk and dawn. Through gradually increasing levels of lights, they rouse you gently from sleep rather than jolting you awake like a regular alarm clock. Steadily brightening light prompts the production of cortisol, the body's ‘get-up-and-go’ hormone, and at the same time it suppresses melatonin, the hormone conducive to sleep. In response to the incrementally brightening light, your heart rate and core body temperature also gradually rise just as they do in response to dawn. Thanks to this slow and steady process, you feel refreshed and rejuvenated by the time you open your eyes.

The benefits of Lumie wake-up lights are not just limited to the morning, as they can also be used to help prepare your body for sleep. In the evening, their sunset feature fades through the hues of warm white, orange and red to promote your body’s natural sleep response, helping you to drift off easily. Their light-sensitive auto-dimming clock display also helps to create a darker sleep environment, minimising the potential for sleep disturbances.

So what makes Lumie sunrise alarms the ideal baby shower gift?

When waking during the night, it is important to be mindful of the light that we are exposed to as this can disrupt the body's circadian rhythm, causing the sleep/wake cycle to become out of sync. Blue light is particularly alerting so it is crucial to minimise exposure to blue light in the run up to bedtime and during night-time waking.

Lumie Bodyclock's sunset functionality keeps the alerting blue spectrum of light to a minimum, helping to create a healthy sleep environment. This soft glow provides the perfect lighting for night-feeds, offering sufficient light without stimulating you into alertness. Opting for the warm tones of a Lumie sunset during the night rather than using bright, alerting light allows parents and babies to fall back to sleep much more easily.

Lumie offers a variety of Bodyclock lights to suit all sleep and waking needs. Check out some of the range below!

Bodyclock Spark 100

Bodyclock Glow 150

Bodyclock Shine 300

Bodyclock Luxe 700FM

As an effective sleep aid for babies and young children, Lumie Bedbug also makes a perfect baby shower gift. Minimising the alerting blue light in the child's sleep environment, Bedbug helps them to settle at night. Its optional night light provides a reassuring glow and it also offers sufficient light for feeding, changing and comforting without prompting wakefulness. Thanks to the lack of alerting light exposure, both children and parents can drift back to sleep effortlessly with Bedbug.

So, when heading to your next baby shower, why not consider the gift of easier nights? New parents will thank you for it!