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Reimagining nursery care for babies and the people who care for them.
Reimagining nursery care for babies and the people who care for them.
Cots have always been designed around babies. It’s time they worked around parents too!
High fixed sides and low mattress positions mean repeated bending, stretching, lowering and lifting — day after day, night after night. During postnatal recovery, with back pain, reduced mobility or disability, those everyday movements can become significantly more difficult.
What if a mainstream cot adapted to the parent instead?
The Zizoza cot is being designed to do exactly that — bringing the mattress to a more comfortable care height and providing secure side access, reducing the need for awkward bending, stretching and strain. While keeping safety, accessibility and beautiful premium design at the heart of its development.
When we showed parents the concept:
Once you see the problem, the solution feels obvious.
A cot should support the person caring for the baby — not require them to adapt around its limitations.
A good design should work for more people, whatever their body, mobility or circumstances are.
It’s time nursery design caught up with the realities of caring — raising expectations and reducing barriers for everyone.
It’s a simple idea. And one that’s long overdue.
Zizoza is rethinking nursery products around the whole experience of care — how they feel to use, who they work for, and the difference they make in everyday life.
Accessibility shouldn’t mean clinical. Innovation should solve a real problem. Premium design should consider everyone it serves.
The products that families rely on every day should feel thoughtful, intuitive and beautifully considered — without asking anyone to compromise.
Zizoza understands this and believes this opens the door to a new category.
Secure side access is designed to bring the carer closer to the baby, creating a more comfortable and natural care interaction.
The adjustable sleeping platform responds to different heights, bodies and changing circumstances — rather than asking the person using it to adapt around the cot.
Moving and access features are being developed with controlled operation, secure locking and safety-led engineering at their core.
A longer-life design allows Zizoza to evolve beyond the baby stage, extending its usefulness and value as the child grows.
Protected with purpose. Developed with persistence. Built for what comes next.
What began as an idea is becoming a new way to care.
Before Zizoza, my professional life was largely people- and community-focused. I’ve worked as a Youth Worker, Housing Officer and Project Coordinator — roles that brought me into contact with people from different backgrounds, abilities, circumstances and stages of life.
As a Youth Worker, a large part of my role was listening, offering advice and guidance, and helping young people find a way forward. Working in housing gave me an even deeper understanding of how different people’s needs and circumstances are, while project coordination taught me how to bring people together, manage competing priorities, work across stakeholders and keep things moving towards an outcome.
Looking back, those experiences shaped more of Zizoza than I initially realised.
They taught me to listen before assuming, to look at a problem from more than one perspective and to understand that one solution does not always work for everyone. How inclusivity and diversity is so important for people to thrive.
That thinking has become fundamental to the kind of company I want Zizoza to be.
I was working as a Project Coordinator during the early stages of Zizoza, developing the idea alongside my professional work and raising my family. I decided to take a step back from my career and focus on the business.
I didn’t come from an engineering, product design or product-development background. When I first drew the concept, I had no idea just how much I would need to learn to turn an idea on paper into a product — or how much would be involved in building the business around it.
Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to build a business as well as a product.
That has meant learning about intellectual property, funding and commercial strategy; understanding prototyping and product development; working through safety and compliance requirements; navigating manufacturing and supply chains; managing budgets, milestones and external specialists; and knowing when to bring in engineers, designers and other expertise rather than trying to have every answer myself.
There has been research. There have been setbacks. There have been decisions I’ve had to rethink and difficult ones I’ve had to make. There have been new areas I’ve had to understand and plenty of moments when the next step wasn’t immediately obvious.
But I kept finding the next step.
What began as a sketch in 2019 has grown into a protected invention, a developed prototype, a funded business and a product moving towards manufacture and independent testing.
There is still work ahead, but Zizoza is no longer an idea sitting on paper. It has been researched, challenged, developed and steadily moved forward.
I didn’t want to simply point out what was wrong.
I wanted to build what I believed should exist instead.
