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We gave the Apolinář maternity ward in Prague a vitae lamp for every bed.
You scanned the lamp by your bed · Apolinář, Prague 2
Light for the first nights with your baby.The lamp by your bed shines differently.No blue. So night stays night.
Night feeds, nappy changes, a baby who can't tell day from night yet. An ordinary lamp at 3 a.m. tells your body it's morning. vitae ENN gives warm light with no blue in it, bright enough to feed by, so night stays night for you and for whoever sleeps beside you.
The little lamp clipped to your bed is a vitae ENN. It gives warm light with no blue in it, so when you're up in the night, the light doesn't tell your body it's morning. Night stays night, for you and for whoever sleeps beside you. Nothing to set up, the midwives have it ready.
Right now, by your bed
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One switch. Three modes.
Switch off and straight back on: the lamp jumps to the next mode. Leave it off for a moment and it always wakes on Night.
Night21:00–6:00
Orange, no blue or green
For night feeds and changes. Melatonin stays put.
Before sleep20:00–21:00
Deeper orange
You still see colours. Safe up to an hour before bed.
Evening18:00–20:00
Warm orange
Tells the body night is coming.
Day6:00–18:00
Leave the lamp off
Blinds up, ceiling light on. Daylight sets the rhythm.
Switching: turn the cord switch off and on again.
Try it right here
Flip the switch and watch the light.
This is vitae ENN, the bulb in the lamps above the beds at Apolinář. Flip it and watch the spectrum: the night mode leaves the band that wakes you completely empty.
vitae ENN · cord switch
11s
vitae from the datasheet; classic bulbs and nature are typical values. Bar height follows brightness. Day signal = MDER (noon sun 1.0, candle 0.2).
Why it matters for your baby
A body clock that's still being built.
Babies aren't born with a working clock. It forms over the first weeks and months, and the signal it tunes to is the difference between light and dark. Bright, blue-rich light in the middle of the night tells a developing brain it's still daytime, the opposite of what a newborn needs.
It protects the night feed.Warm, blue-free light lets you see and feed without resetting anyone's melatonin.
Night stays night.Clear day-night contrast is exactly what a forming rhythm leans on, and it's linked to babies settling into longer night stretches sooner.
Gentle on brand-new eyes.No flicker, no glare, calm light for a dark room at any hour.
Why it matters for you
Broken nights are coming. Make the sleep between them count.
You can't avoid waking up, but you can avoid waking up fully. Under ordinary light, a 20-minute feed resets your melatonin and leaves you staring at the ceiling. Under blue-free light, your body stays in night mode the whole time.
Fall back asleep faster.Melatonin stays up through the feed, so sleep comes back for you when the baby settles.
The sleep you do get is deeper.A broken night hurts less when each stretch is real night sleep, not half-daytime dozing.
It works for whoever gets up.The light protects everyone in the room. No glasses, nothing to remember.
What to expect
The first fourteen nights.
Every baby is different. This is a rough map, not a schedule.
Nights 1–2 · the ward
The second night is usually unsettled.
That's normal. Feed and change under the orange only.
Night mode all night
Nights 3–7
Feeds every 2–3 hours, at night too.
Your baby can't tell day from night yet. You can: under the orange you fall back asleep faster.
6–9 pm Evening or Before sleepFrom 9 pm Night
Week 2 · home
Light by day, orange by night.
Open the curtains, go outside. At night, only the lamp by the cot.
Daylight by dayOnly Night at night
Weeks 6–12
Your baby's own rhythm starts.
The first longer night stretches come. The rule stays the same.
Same rule, every night
If you only remember one number
How loudly a light shouts “daytime”.
Scientists measure it against daylight at 1.0. Candlelight and firelight, the light humans raised babies under for millennia, sits near 0.2. The lamp by your bed measures 0.016 in Night mode: quieter than a candle, and still bright enough to feed by.
For your home
For Apolinář families
Bring this light home.
Take the same light home.
An ENN bulb screws into any ordinary lamp, and the clip lamp goes wherever the cot is. It's the same light that hangs above every bed at Apolinář.
The lamp by your bed stays at Apolinář for the next family. The same light can be waiting at home, though: an ENN bulb screws into any ordinary lamp, and the clip lamp goes wherever the cot is.
APOLINAR1515% off bulbs, glasses and lamps
Not valid on the headlamp, deposits or monthly Bulbsharing® fees.
We're just round the corner. Pick up your vitae at Sázavská 30, Prague 2.
vitae ENN bulb
Fits any ordinary lamp with an E27 socket.
from 1.990,00 Kč · or Bulbsharing® from 65,00 Kč/mo
Clip lamp + ENN
The same one that's by your bed. Clip it to the cot.
from 996,99 Kč without the bulb
Blue-free glasses
For when you have to step into a room with ordinary light at night.
Included in the 15% offer
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