Perimenopause was a difficult transition for me. At first the changes were subtle. Unexplained weight gain. Moments of forgetfulness. Nothing too alarming. Just enough to make me pause. But then it grew into something that altered my energy levels during the day and disrupted my nights. Under the covers, my body began overheating in a way I had never experienced. I have always been a cold sleeper. I need to be warm to fall asleep. So suddenly waking up drenched, kicking off layers, pulling them back on, tossing, shifting, sweating, then shivering again felt unreal. I was either too hot at my midsection, shift the blanket down, or chilly at my shoulders, shift the blanket back up. Over and over. One night, it got so bad that I literally wanted to push my partner, James, off the bed simply for sleeping too close to me and making the heat worse. That was the moment I realized I needed to find a solution.
I started researching anything that could help: comforters with temperature-control technology, cooling pads, cooling gadgets. Nothing existed for women who wanted to cool down naturally during menopause. Nothing soft and simple. Human. It felt like companies forgot that menopause is already hard enough. A woman in the middle of night sweats and emotional changes does not want to learn how to program a gadget just to get relief. She wants comfort. She wants to feel covered, not plugged in. She wants sleep to feel like sleep, not like operating a device.
That realization is what pushed me further. There had to be a natural way. A way to cool only where the heat actually builds without removing the comfort and security of being covered. I wanted something soft, intuitive, and peaceful. Something I could adjust half-asleep in the dark without thinking. That is where the idea for Sleeping Dove began. A luxury cooling comforter with the Softwing Natural Cooling Solution, fabric panels you can open to cool exactly where you need it, while the rest of your body stays insulated, covered, and comforted. No tech. No setup. No noise. Just an organic solution designed for real women going through real changes.