Protect-A-Bed mattress protector review

I’m really excited about this review. I was wanting to buy some new mattress protectors for my three kids, for all different reasons.

I have a nine year old daughter, who has a reasonably new mattress, and I want to ensure it stays well looked after for as long as possible, and protect it from those times when she vomits during an illness, situations like that.

I have a four year old son who is toilet trained but is wearing nappies to bed, but being older, often has leakages by morning. That, and I plan to night train him without nappies when Spring time comes. Anything that can keep the washing to a minimum during those first accidents, and protect the mattress is welcomed here!

I also have a two year old daughter who has the occasional nappy leak, or will sit on her bed during the day with her sippy cup and spill it, or vomit when she’s ill, basically, all the wonderful messy things that come with having kids.

When the opportunity arose to do this review, I jumped at the chance! The good people from Protect-A-Bed were lovely enough to send me the following items:

A king single Elite mattress protector for my son’s bed.
A sheet protector/drawsheet for my son’s bed also (he is the most likely to have a mess on his bed, and entering into night training, after all!)
And for my two girls, who both have regular single sized beds, two fitted quilted mattress pads.

I’ll start with the fitted quilted mattress pads that my daughters received.

These are beautiful to use, and provide a waterproof, anti-allergy surface for children to sleep on. The surface is pure cotton, and is a little like terry fabric. It’s quilted, and deliciously soft. Missy Nine informed me that night as I tucked her in that her bed felt much more soft and comfortable. The fabric is highly absorbent yet breathable too. This is the type of mattress protector in the range that is suited to bedwetting and night training.

In the picture below, you can see what both sides of the pad look like:

The shiny side is the waterproof, underside of the mattress protector. On the right hand side, is the terry cotton fabric that is the top side. The fabric you see in the middle is the soft, stretchy fabric that wraps around the sides of the bed and around the underside. I’ve always hated putting fitted sheets on beds, it’s so awkward. But this is very simple and quick to put on a child’s bed. The side pieces just seem to snap in place with ease, and I find this extremely kind on my back, as I don’t like to be bent over doing this job for too long.

I was impressed with how well the mattress pads fit on my daughters’ beds. I think there’s nothing worse than when you buy something fitted, be it a sheet or a protector, and it goes on all wonky. Protect-A-Bed’s range seems much more neat and you can’t notice it under the sheets.

Onto the Protect-A-Bed Elite. It’s described as the ‘ultimate protector for luxury mattresses’. So, if you have a super plush top, memory foam or latex mattress, this would be the protector for your bed.

The Elite is also suited to adult beds, as it protects against dust mites, stains, perspiration and accidental spill stains. It’s not as suited to protect against bed wetting, but my son’s mattress was the wrong size! It’s still good to try the different types though, and I will definitely be buying this one for my bed in future. I’ll show you a picture of how this one looks:

You can see on the left side (the top side), that it is much smoother and more sleek than the terry mattress pad. It is deliciously soft and stretchy, and again, a dream to put on without any mucking around. I hate making the bed, and there’s no way in hell I want to waste time doing it.

You can see by the fit that the sides wrap around very generously, I was surprised just how far it went under. I think it fit his bed perfectly.

Next is something I’ve always meant to try with my kids, but never got around to doing before now. A draw sheet for night training. My son (who, remember, has a king sized single bed) was sent a single sized sheet protector/drawsheet for placing over the top of his sheeting. I was amazed at how generous the sides were for tucking under even a larger bed than it was intended for! My son is a very rough sleeper, and this has never moved around or come off after a heavy sleep.

True to form, my son put this drawsheet through its paces the first night he used it. Without wanting to be graphic (but I think it’s called for to do this review properly), my son did a major puddle all over the draw sheet. This would’ve definitely gone right into the stuffing of the mattress if it had nothing to protect it. I was amazed that the drawsheet was so wide, that none of his wee spilled over onto the sheets, and both sheets and mattress were bone dry. I washed the drawsheet straight away am pleased to say that it dried incredibly quickly. Which is important if your child is saturating their bed every single night!

So, my verdict? I was utterly impressed with all the products I tried, and I plan to order some more things in the near future.

To learn more, you can visit the website: www.protectabed.com.au and follow them on twitter and facebook.

Once Spring is upon us Aussies, I’ll be writing more about potty training and night training, so stay tuned!