Weighted plushies
It's late and your body
still hasn't got the message.
Nothing's wrong. You just can't come down. A weighted plushie gives you something to hold and something to push back against. That steady pressure is what your body reads as stop, in a shape you can actually get your arms around.
You've been hugging a pillow for years.
Somewhere along the line you worked out that you sleep better holding something. It's not a habit you chose and it's not one you've mentioned to anybody, but the pillow goes under your arm every night all the same.
The pillow was never quite right. It goes flat, it slides away from you, and it weighs nothing at all. This is the same instinct with some substance behind it, heavy enough that your arms know it's there.
You kicked it off. You still couldn't sleep.
Weighted blankets work right up until they cook you. Then it's on the floor, you're wide awake, and you've lost the weight along with the heat.
The weight was never the problem. Putting it over all of you was. Lay this across your chest instead and the rest of you stays on the cool side of the bed. It's held rather than draped, so it's still there in the morning.
The bad hour isn't always at night.
Sometimes it's a desk at three in the afternoon. A passenger seat. Twenty minutes in a waiting room with nothing to do but sit there getting wound up.
You can't take a blanket to any of those. You can put this on your lap, keep your hands free, and nobody in the room has to know it's doing anything.
You're allowed to own one of these.
A lot of people buying weighted plushies are adults buying for themselves, and most of them never say so out loud. Therapists hand these to people mid-session for exactly the reason you're reading this page.
There's nothing to explain to anyone. It's a soft heavy thing that helps your body settle, and it looks like something you own rather than something you were prescribed.
Deep pressure is the oldest trick your nervous system knows. Firm, even weight tells a body that's still running that it can stand down. It's the same reason a hug lands differently than a pat on the back.
That's the entire product. Everything after this is picking which one you'd rather look at.
Pick the one you'd actually keep on your bed
Five to choose from, each in a shorter and a longer body, each with a choice of how heavy you want it.
The things people ask us
How heavy are they?
The shorter body runs from just over a pound up to about a pound and a half. The longer one goes up to 3.2 lb, which is our heaviest and the one to get if you're replacing a weighted blanket.
Don't use the blanket rule of ten percent of your body weight. That's for something covering all of you. A plushie sits on one spot, so the same weight feels like considerably more.
What if I hate how it feels?
Sleep with it for thirty nights. If it's not for you, send it back for a refund, and you don't have to tell us why.
Is it strange to buy this as an adult?
No, and it's the question we get most. Occupational therapists have used deep pressure for decades, and a large share of everyone buying weighted anything is an adult buying for themselves.
Will it make me hot the way a blanket does?
Much less, because it isn't insulating your whole body at once. The rest of you is still open to the room. If you sleep hot, put it in the freezer for an hour before bed and use it on your chest.