Hybrid Comfort Mattress

Hi everyone, My wife and I are shopping a queen mattress and have already tried few options, but not settled on a good fit. Could you give me suggestions to pick the right one? We are a 40 years old healthy couple. She is very slim, 5'5 108lbs, and I am 5’10 163lbs. Both are back-side combination sleeper but leaning toward back primarily.  We reside in Canada and our budget is somewhat limited somewhere around 1500CAD.  Our mattress history is as follows… The first mattress we tried was Emma Performance Hybrid, which immediately failed as its rock slab like firmness and too direct foam/textureless surface. This experience steered our decision to softer option that was Silk and Snow hybrid Plush. But our hips sank too deeply and shoulders pushed inward due to its excessive(just for us) softness, then that caused spinal misalignment with pain at lower back and neck. Finally, we have been testing Silk and Snow Organic Hybrid Firm for a week. This is even little harder than Emma, but with textured top layer. It makes my hands and arms lightly numb/tingling… needless to say no good for our shoulders when we lie on our side. We have experienced medium-firm options at a S&S store but did not like the feeling... We are currently looking at DreamCloud Premier Hybrid and Brooklyn Bedding Signature Hybrid but any other suggestions would be also appreciated.

love my Emma mattress, got a queen for $760 a couple years ago.

I bought the Emma about 2 or 3 years ago and honestly me and my husband highly recommend it. I used to wake up like I was after getting a beating my back was that bad and now we both wake with 0 pain. It took a few weeks to settle in.

I have an Emma Hybrid one and it's fantastic for me. Soft enough but firm enough. We all have our own preferences I guess!

With your size and weight, finding something supportive but not too firm can be a challenge. You might have to try quite a few mattresses - in stores and using trial periods.  I’m 5’3” and ca. 120 pounds, and lots of mattress trials over the last 3 years taught me that most mattresses labelled “medium-firm” and many mattresses labelled “medium”  feel either painfully hard or actually too soft (when there are thicker comfort layers and my body isn’t heavy enough to “interact” with the support layer). So here’s what I learned - of course not everything will apply to you: 1) mattresses for teenagers / children can be more suitable although they’re often thinner than mainstream mattresses for adults; definitely worth a try. 2) a mattress for a lightweight adult needs to be of a softer firmness throughout (not just a soft comfort layer). This is more expensive to make, or at least make well, and mostly it’s higher-end mattress makers that bother with it (eg Vispring). 3) what can work is a simple mattress with “medium” pocket springs or coils (not “medium-firm”!) plus a high-quality foam topper, eg Tempuroedic or soft Talalay latex. 4) Memory foam: Dormeo has some medium-soft mattresses in your price range; however, medium-soft usually means a thicker layer of soft memory foam & too much sinkage for your taste; I didn’t like it in the end.   The current Emma hybrids are relatively soft and can work for lightweight sleepers;  I didn’t like the feel of how the foam compressed   A Tempurpedic “soft” might have the right feel and support; their outlet store sometimes has mattresses in your price range or just a bit over 5) non-memory polyfoam: can be amazing if it has just the right density. Over decades of mattress troubles I only had one type of polyfoam mattress that felt just right for me (German company). 6) Latex: can be amazing for petite bodies. I currently sleep on an all-latex mattress, 6” medium dunlop, 2” soft talalay. This is better than anything else I tried; still feel there’s a bit too much push back (what makes it feel too firm) and will try an altogether softer setup.