Out of more than 300 entries for the May custom Weighted Blanket giveaway, I won. After seeing first hand, how the weighted blankets helped two of my children stay asleep all night, I was a believer. My husband, on the other hand was skeptical. I actually entered the contest to try to win a blanket for him. After it arrived, it immediately allowed him to sleep all night, but he reserved judgment, maintaining that only a few days had passed. He struggles with restless leg syndrome and symptoms that resemble PTSD. For decades, he has been waking up around 2 AM, and then he cannot get back to sleep. He got by with a few hours of sleep much better when he was younger. Now, with parenting 10 children, working full-time plus, and running a farm, the lack of sleep was wearing him down. After two weeks of using the weighted blanket every night, he has been converted. He admits that It really works.

It is better than sleeping pills because sometimes they cause drowsiness in the morning but the blanket does not. You do not have to worry about covering up with your blanket too late at night because you forgot to take it on time, and then sleeping through the alarm, like you do with sleeping pills. He used to take sleeping pills but did not like the side effects. Some caused him nightmares; others caused drowsiness and foggy thinking.