Arctic dreams 10" cooling gel mattress

[phoenix]

Hi JB,

Thank you so much for the reply. I knew that it was typically recommended for toddlers to have a firmer bed but wasn’t sure if that had changed.

Firmness recommendations for children aren’t likely to change.

I could be wrong, but I felt like when I asked if there was a less expensive option, he just wrote me off to their Amazon product. I could be completely wrong but just how I felt. I did mention that we had purchased a tuft and needle that was way too firm. He mentioned they carried a similar mattress but softer. Could be this is the one he meant.

It’s sometimes easy to misread “tone” in written communications so I would guess that you were wrong in your assessment … especially since he provided you with good guidance. I would think that this was the mattress he was referring to since it uses the same general type and quality/density of materials as the Tuft & Needle (3" of high performance polyfoam on top of a 1.8 lb base layer) although of course the firmness and “feel” would likely be different.

I followed this site for a while after my purchase and it seemed a lot of people were going with dreamfoam and you (Phoenix) approved so that is why I’m heading that direction with toddler and for us… I personally need a softer mattress. They just seem to have softer options but also green-ish qualities.

While I do recommend the members here “as a group” … I don’t make specific recommendations or suggestions or “approve” any specific mattress, manufacturers/retailers, or combinations of materials or components because the first “rule” of mattress shopping is to always remember that you are the only one that can feel what you feel on a mattress and there are too many unknowns, variables, and personal preferences involved that are unique to each person to use a formula or for anyone to be able to predict or make a specific suggestion or recommendation about which mattress or combination of materials and components or which type of mattress would be the best “match” for you in terms of “comfort” or PPP or how a mattress will “feel” to you or compare to another mattress based on specs (either yours or a mattress) or “theory at a distance” that can possibly be more accurate than your own careful testing (hopefully using the testing guidelines in step 4 of the tutorial)or your own personal sleeping experience (see mattress firmness/comfort levels in post #2 here).

Having said that … Dreamfoam is one of the members here which means that I do think very highly of them and I believe that they compete well with the best in the industry in terms of their quality, value, service, knowledge, and transparency and they certainly make great quality/value mattresses.

Phoenix