Bear Cub Mattress Review

Scott Paladini and Joey Holt founded Bear Mattress in 2014, which is now a leading supplier of cutting-edge sleep products. Bear Mattress continues to raise the bar for excellence in the bedding sector by being dedicated to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction while assisting people in getting the most out of their sleep and performance.

With superior support and comfort, this Bear Bed is a kid-specific premium sleep solution promoting restful nights and active days. Its well-considered design and inventive construction give developing bodies the basis they need for sound sleep patterns and normal growth.

In this article, we will discuss the following for the Bear Cub mattress:

• Pros
• Cons
• Who do we recommend this mattress for?
• Unboxing Experience
• Firmness, Feel, and Comfort
• Constructions, Materials, and Design
• Performance
• Warranty and Company Policies
• FAQs about the mattress
• Final Verdict

Bear Cub Mattress Overview

Pros

• Optimal Support: The Bear Cub Mattress is designed to give developing kids the perfect amount of support they require for normal growth. Its medium-firm feel lowers the possibility of pain or strain by ensuring correct spinal alignment.
• Comfortable: The mattress's layers of cushioning foam provide a soft, body-hugging sleeping surface that encourages kids to unwind and get deeper sleep while being a bunk bed mattress as well. The soft texture creates a comfortable setting for healing sleep.
• Breathable and Cooling: The Bear Cub Mattress's cutting-edge cooling technology encourages airflow and heat dissipation to keep you from overheating while you sleep. Children who are active and prone to nighttime heat stroke will especially benefit from this feature.
• Eco-Friendly Materials: The Bear Cub Mattress was built with eco-friendly materials as part of Bear Mattress's commitment to sustainability. Parents can feel secure in their selection of an eco-friendly sleep solution thanks to options like CertiPUR-US® certified foams and responsibly sourced fabrics.

Cons

• Restricted Firmness Options: Due to its medium-firm feel, the Bear Cub Mattress might not be suitable for kids who have certain firmness needs, like those who need extra firm support because of orthopedic issues.

Who we Recommend the Bear Cub Mattress for

• Kids with Sleep Sensitivities: The hypoallergenic materials and CertiPUR-US®-certified foams in the Bear Cub Mattress make it appropriate for kids with allergies or sleep sensitivities. By ensuring a hygienic and secure sleeping environment, these features lower the possibility of allergic reactions or respiratory problems.
• Transitioning Toddlers: The Bear Cub Mattress provides the ideal amount of comfort and support for parents whose toddlers are moving from a cot to a bed. Its medium-firm texture eases the transition to a new sleeping environment by giving growing bodies just the right amount of support and providing a plush surface that feels comfortable and welcoming making it one of the best kids' mattresses.
• Hot Sleepers: the Bear Cub Mattress is a great option. With its cutting-edge cooling technology, which includes breathable materials and an airflow-enhancing design, heat is dispersed and temperature is regulated, providing hot sleepers with a more comfortable and cool sleeping environment.
• Different Sleeping Positions: The Bear Cub Mattress's medium-firm feel and responsive foam layers allow it to support a variety of sleeping positions, whether your child prefers to sleep on their stomach, back, or side. It offers sufficient support making you feel comfortable and supported, promoting good spinal alignment and reducing discomfort. Because of its adaptability, it can be used with kids with varying sleeping schedules and tastes.

Unboxing the Bear Cub Mattress

After you receive the mattress box, you can move it to any room you choose. We found the box to be fairly lightweight and pliable, making it convenient to transport. To begin the unwrapping process, we took a pair of scissors and carefully cut through the packing tape to open the box. When the box was opened, the compressed mattress was carefully rolled up and wrapped in plastic.

After the mattress is on the floor, we carefully cut away the plastic wrapping with scissors. As soon as the plastic was taken off, the mattress started to expand and take its usual shape.

After the plastic wrapping is removed, the Bear Mattress will fill up the bed edges beautifully and expand to its full size in a few hours, which is comparatively less time than other mattresses. This suggests excellent corner expansion.

Unlike traditional mattresses, the Bear Cub Mattress arrives odor-free thanks to its eco-friendly materials. This ensures a safe and healthy sleep environment for your toddler's bed.

Firmness, Feel, and Comfort For Bear Cub Mattress

Bear Cub Mattress Firmness

By rating its firmness, the bear mattress received a 7/10, indicating it is a slightly firmer, medium-firm mattress.

The medium-firm feel of the Bear Cub Mattress strikes the perfect balance between cushioning and support, making it perfect for kids. This degree of firmness ensures growing bodies are well-supported through the night by offering enough support to support appropriate spinal alignment.

The mattress's medium-firm feel allows it to be flexible enough to fit into a variety of sleeping positions while still offering the comfort and support needed for a restful night's sleep. If you need a softer mattress check out our list of best mattresses for kids of 2024!

Bear Cub Mattress Feel

Children can feel warm and welcome to rest on the Bear Cub Mattress because it is supportive but also cushiony to lie on. The medium-firm feel gently cradles the body while guaranteeing proper spinal alignment by offering a well-balanced blend of support and contouring.

The layers of responsive foam in the mattress conform to the natural contours of the body, releasing pressure points and encouraging relaxation. All in all, the Bear Cub Mattress offers kids a warm and inviting sleeping surface that makes them feel as though they are sinking into a supportive cloud.

Bear Cub Mattress Comfort

Similar to firmness, other factors that affect how comfortable a mattress feels are your body weight and preferred sleeping position.

Most people who tested the mattress with varying body weights and sleeping positions found it to be reasonably comfortable. The mattress is firm enough to give support to stomach and back sleepers by providing enough relief and cushioning to their hips and shoulders. For side sleepers, they might need to look for a slightly softer mattress.

Here’s a table summarizing these results:

Constructions, Materials, and Design

Materials and Design

The Bear Cub Mattress has an elegant design and high-quality materials that are especially suited to children's sleeping requirements. Its responsive foam layers provide the best possible support and comfort, and its breathable cover helps to regulate temperature and allow air to flow through it.

Because the mattress is made of eco-friendly materials, including CertiPUR-US® certified foams, growing children can sleep in a safe and healthy environment. Children can sleep comfortably and healthily for years to come thanks to the Bear Cub Mattress's sturdy design and hypoallergenic qualities.

Layers

1. Cooling Tencel® fibers and a quilted hypoallergenic cover: The mattress has a supple, breathable cover with cooling Tencel® fibers that allow for ideal airflow to keep kids comfy all night long.
2. Superior Gel Memory Foam: A layer of gel memory foam sits beneath the cover, drawing heat away to keep kids' beds cooler and more comfortable.
3. Responsive Foam Layer: This foam layer helps children's growing bodies develop properly by offering strong spinal support.
4. Hundreds of Separate 6-Inch Coils: The mattress's core is made up of hundreds of separate 6-inch coils that cradle the sleeper to reduce motion transfer and promote peaceful slumber. Children's safety is improved when they can't roll off the mattress thanks to reinforced edge coils.

Performance of Bear Cub Mattress

Cooling

One of the most important things to take into account when selecting a mattress is cooling, particularly if you're a hot sleeper seeking undisturbed, pain-free deep sleep.

By lying on the Bear Cub for 20 minutes and keeping an eye out for any noticeable heat buildup, we were able to test its ultra-breathable material and determine that it keeps users from overheating or sweating while they sleep.

Thanks to the Tencel cover's cooling properties, which provide excellent heat dissipation, cooling, and airflow promotion.

The Bear Cub Mattress receives a rating of 4.6/5 for cooling effectiveness.

Responsiveness

We test responsiveness with a 20-pound ball. We keep track of how long it takes the mattress to heal and take on its typical form. The mattress reverted to its initial shape in 0.9 seconds, indicating good responsiveness.

It responds to pressure quicker than all foam mattresses because it is a hybrid mattress. While you sleep, you can move around easily with the Bear mattress. making it ideal for the majority of sleepers.

As a result, the mattress received a 4.5/5 rating in our responsiveness test.

Motion Isolation

For those who share a bed, motion isolation is crucial because it illustrates how movement in one area of the mattress may impact other areas as well.

To assess the Bear Cub's motion isolation capability, we ran two tests. In the first test, a 20-pound ball was dropped on one side of the mattress while a glass half full of water was placed on top of it. The glass of water hardly stirred, indicating that the mattress offers an acceptable amount of motion isolation. How well the mattress would isolate motion from another person was the subject of the second test.

One reviewer was made to lie on one side of the mattress, and the other was allowed to roll around on the other. The one who was lying motionless said that he could feel movement, but not enough to wake him up. This suggests that the mattress only partially isolates motion, with average levels of motion transfer; since children are smaller than adults, their motion transfer will be even lower.

The Bear Cub Mattress received a motion isolation performance rating of 4.3/5.

Edge Support

The edge support performance of your mattress has an impact on its stability, which is essential for maintaining the bed's form and shape—especially for active, hyperactive children.

We tested the Bear Cubs' edge support by putting firm pressure on the edges and keeping an eye out for counterpressure. The thick foam layers provided enough counterpressure, and when we released the pressure, the edges instantly returned to their original shape.

By sitting on the edge of the mattress, we ran another test. Because of the hybrid design, the mattress didn't sink a lot and provided us with good edge support.

Regarding edge support, we gave the Bear Cub Mattress a rating of 4.5/5.

Noise

Regarding bed-sharing, a quiet mattress can make all the difference. Additionally, coil mattresses are notorious for making screechy and squeaky noises, which can quickly reduce your kids' quality of sleep, which is crucial for their development.

Once a 20-pound ball was dropped onto the mattress to test its noise level, we used extremely sensitive microphones to watch for any squeaks or other noises. The result was that there was no sound at all, save for the thud of the ball, indicating that the Bear Cub mattress is silent and won't wake up your kids, whether they share or sleep alone.

In terms of noise, we gave the mattress a 5/5.

Pressure Relief

A mattress that offers enough pressure relief distributes your body weight evenly throughout the mattress, preventing pressure points or sore spots in the back, shoulders, or hips and improving your quality of sleep which is important in beds for children.

By displaying the pressure distribution, we were able to test and assess the mattress's capacity to lower pressure in specific body regions using a pressure map. The findings revealed the following:

Back Region: The pressure map for the back region on both sides showed a generally constant blue color throughout all sleeping positions. This indicates that the mattress is a great option for back sleepers as it offers excellent lower back support, maintains the spine in the proper alignment while you sleep, and helps younger children develop properly.

Shoulders Region: The pressure map for the side sleeping positions on both sides of the mattress displayed a mixture of blue and green colors. which suggests that light-side sleepers may experience some pressure buildup from this mattress.

Hips Region: The hip region of the mattress displayed a combination of green and yellow, This suggests that the mattress may put some pressure on side sleepers, particularly if their child is a heavy sleeper.

We rated the Bear Cub Mattress 4.5/5 in terms of pressure relief.

Bear Warranty and Company Policies

Warranty

A lot of manufacturers make mattresses that need to be replaced every few years. Bear does not, and they back their products with the industry's longest lifetime warranty. If there is a flaw, Bear Mattress has a top-notch in-house customer support team that can help.

Trial

If you would like to test the Bear Cubs Bed, you can do so for their 120-night trial period, during which time you can determine whether or not to keep it. They will pick it up for free and give you a complete refund.

Returns

The Bear Cubs Bed is available for 120 nights of testing, after which you can decide whether or not to keep it. They'll reimburse you in full and arrange for free pickup.

Shipping

Bear provides free standard shipping within the United States on all goods.

Pricing

Because premium materials were used in the construction of the Bear Cubs Mattress, it is more expensive than average of kids mattresses, which makes it worth every penny.

These are the original prices, and discounts may apply. The prices are shown in the table below based on the various sizes. Visit their website to view the current discounts.

Policies Overview

FAQs about Bear Cub Mattress

Bear mattresses are manufactured where?

The USA is where Bear mattresses are all made.

Is it safe to sleep on a Bear Cub mattress?

Bear mattresses are independently tested to guarantee that they meet the stringent third-party chemical emissions requirements set by GreenGuard Gold and CertiPUR-US, ensuring that you are not exposed to any health-hazardous elements while you sleep.

Is the Bear Cub Mattress appropriate for kids of all ages?

Yes, the Bear Cub Mattress is made to fit a variety of child sizes and offers the best comfort and support for the majority of sleepers.

Do you need a box spring to support the Bear Cub Mattress or can you use it with other bed frames?

A box spring is not necessary for the Bear Cub Mattress to be supported. Numerous bed frames, such as platform beds, slatted bases, bunk beds, and adjustable bases, can be utilized with it. It is not required to use a box spring to support the mattress, but you are free to if that is your preference.