Dear Mr. Rubio,

 

I wanted to take a minute to let you know how grateful our family is that you have invented your comfy lift toddler bed. We have a 14 month little girl who has struggled with severe reflux from birth. The reflus has caused other health problems like apnea, and Lyrangomalacia. She has started improving greatly with a reflux wedge when she was smaller, but over the summer she got worse and worse. She would have breathing problems and have to be put on oxygen. Her apnea, which had been getting better had gotten worse again. A sleep study confirmed that her oxygen levels dropped when she refluxed.

 

We tried everything we could at home, changes in diet, amounts of food she ate, special formula, probiotics, but she kept getting worse and worse. Our Doctors had talked to us several times about surgery, but we asked for time to find another option. Things got to the point that our daughter would wake up in the night screaming from the pain of the acid burning her lungs, and since she was maxed out on medicines, there was nothing we could find to help her with the pain. We had decided we were just going to have to go through with surgery because we couldn't watch our baby suffer.

 

Then in the middle of the night one night, I was up still thinking of what happened between when she was getting better and when she was getting worse. I realized that about the time she started getting worse was when she outgrew her wedge. Like most other moms I know I tried elevating her in other ways, pillows, elevating the head of her bed, propping up her mattress, but those things don't work well on a wiggly toddler. She would roll to the bottom, or get in a cramped up position that only made things worse. So I began looking for something like a wedge that was made for a toddler.

 

That's when I came across the comfy lift bed. I began looking into it to see if it would help when nothing else did, and in the mean time we had another appointment at the Children's hospital where more than one of our doctors told us we couldn't keep putting off surgery. The acid was flowing into her lungs and making her sound like she had pneumonia. We were so disheartened.

 

But after her first night on the comfy lift bed she slept all night. That had never happened before. The second night was the same. No pain, just happy sleep and waking up bright-eyed. Her lungs were clear when she woke up, and as the days went on they didn't get congested during the day. Her swallowing improved to the point that she went from honey thickened liquids to nectar thick. She began taking regular naps, and the bags under her eyes went away. Bedtime used to be so hard, my daughter would fight sleep because it hurt. Now she takes my hand when she's ready for bed, hops in her little bed, lays down and goes to sleep. It's the same for naps, I just put her in her bed and she falls asleep on her own. I can't tell you what a miracle that is in itself. It is a night and day difference. She is a completely different child. This bed didn't just stop her from getting worse, she is better. And in just days.

 

I have not cried so many happy and thankful tears in my life. I also have not rested as well myself now that she's sleeping peacefully. Watching a baby sleep peacefully is something every parent loves to do, and we were unable to do that for over a year.

I've talked to many mothers who have tried positioning with bed pillows and things like that and it doesn't work and so are skeptical that a mattress would do any differently. I was the same. But it does make a difference. It makes a night and day difference. We were to the point that the doctors said there was nothing else but surgery, our daughter's condition was just too severe. And we saw the difference after the first night. She continues to get better each day. We are returning the monitor and oxygen this month. We now only have to buy half the amount of thickener for her food.

 

We are so grateful to you! Thank you so very very much for the difference you've made in our family.

 

This is Before the bed: Sleep studies, Monitors, oxygen, pain, fussy she was fearful and wouldn't let others hold her, even family. Always wanting food because her tummy was always upset.

 

Sincerely,
-Amanda Robbins