My Zeo Personal Sleep Coach arrived in the mail the other day! You may recall I highlighted the Zeo as one of my favorite Mom tech products from the 2010 CES Show. I talked with the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Zeo at CES. I was mesmerized by all the features and capabilities of Zeo. Zeo sent me the unit to review. I am the first to admit I don’t get enough sleep – but then again, what mom does? I know I could use some help in getting more and better quality sleep. But even more than that, I was just downright curious about what type of sleep I am getting. I feel that I:
- take forever to fall asleep
- don’t get enough sleep
- wake up a lot during the night
- wake up early on my own but don’t feel refreshed
So, I will be using the Zeo to monitor my sleep for the next month to see if all the features and promises of the product hold true. But first, just to give you a little insight about me, I stayed up late last night waiting for the sleep band to charge. I placed the comfortable band on my forehead and tried to get to sleep. I had difficulty getting to sleep because I couldn’t wait to see what my results were going to be in the morning! Here were my results:
- I slept for 5 hours and 23 minutes
- it took me 17 minutes to fall asleep (it seemed more like an hour!)
- I woke up 6 times during the night (it felt like I was up all night)
- I spent 40% of my time in light sleep
- I spent 40% of my time in REM sleep (no wonder why I didn’t feel refreshed – my mind was racing most the night!)
- 20% of my time was spent in deep sleep
Wow! I was amazed at the type of information I received. To me it seemed like I was up all night and it took forever to get too sleep. But my Zeo proved me otherwise. There are more great features I’m looking forward to telling you about, but I need to use it more and explore them further first. Look for my post in March during the National Sleep Awareness Week®, which takes place March 7-13, 2010. Think I’ll take a nap now.
Update 2014: Unfortunately, the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach is no longer being made. 🙁
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Hi Lori,
This sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to hearing your results. I think it's pretty easy for us to have no idea of how we sleep. How could we? My wife has been telling me that I snore for years and I've never heard myself once! :0)
The Well Connected Dad
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WOW! I need one of those!
Who ever knew something like that existed?! What an interesting tech toy. But I wonder if having the band on my head would be annoying? I'll be interested to read future posts on what you think of this.
You know, the band doesn't bother me too much. I can certainly feel it after I put it on, but it is soft and adjustable. Sometimes I wake up in the night to feel if it's still there as I don't want to miss any unrecorded sleep. I tell you what, I'll let my husband give it a try. He thinks the band would be annoying too. We'll see how he does with it one night.
What an interesting gadget! I had never heard of this. This weekend I'll be having a sleep study to determine whether I have sleep apnea…but if it turns out that I don't, this sounds like a great idea to try. For me, no amount of sleep ever seems like enough. I really want to get my sleep issues sorted out so I can have more energy.
Yes, I have to say, I love my Zeo. I put a lot more focus on my sleep now and find the sleep stats & ZQ so interesting. It shows a graph depicting every 10 minutes of sleep so you can pinpoint when you awoke, when you were in deep sleep, etc. I now know I get 90% or more of my deep sleep in the first hour. So I'm working on ensuring I go to bed a good hour before my husband. I'm interested to hear how your sleep study goes!
Hi Lori,
That sounds like an amazing machine. I've such erratic sleep over the past three years although I'm sleeping better now. I wrote a blog about the sleep, too, if you'd like to have a look: http://www.zen-mama.com/www.zen-mama.com/Zen_Mama….
I'll have fun looking over your blog. I found you on twittermoms.
Hi Betsy.
Great article on getting a good night sleep.
As moms, we often put other things before our sleep. I know I'm often trying to get things done while the kids are asleep. Yet I never seem to get my to do list done – no matter how late I'm up. Thanks, Betsy, for your commment and tips!