Infants are swaddled in the hospital because it helps reduce the shock of life outside the safe warmth of the mother’s womb. That’s why swaddling is so often encouraged at earlier ages. Today, every mother receives a lesson on swaddling before they leave the hospital.

Your pillow is one of the most important cogs in the machinery that makes for a good night’s sleep. Since one out of three people report regular problems with insomnia, it is clear that most of the pillows out there aren’t working.

Do you have to change your pillow every few months because it loses its shape? Do you have trouble finding the “perfect” pillow that helps you get a good night’s sleep? Do you wonder if the pillow you’re using might be a hotbed of mites and microbes? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, it’s time to listen up.

In an age of information overload, we are bombarded daily with oodles of data that bog down our body and brains, as we try to catch up with every bit of information that shows up by cutting on our sleep time. 30 percent or 40.6 million of American adults are sleeping six hours or less on a daily basis. You might be one of them!