Big Fig Mattress  Mattress Review

The manufacturer advertises the Big Fig Mattress as 13" (33 cm), but ours measured a touch shorter at 12.8" (32.6 cm). This is just a bit taller than the typical range, so you may need to use deep-pocket sheets.

This medium mattress is well-suited to average-sized and heavier side sleepers, as well as lighter to average-sized stomach and back sleepers. Heavier back and stomach sleepers may want a firmer option, while lighter side sleepers may want something plusher, such as the Sealy Posturepedic Hybrid, which is less bouncy but offers a similarly balanced feel, with moderate sinking and contouring.

This is a highly bouncy mattress, which makes it very easy to move around or change sleeping positions. If you don't like the static, lifeless feeling of memory foam and prefer the classic bouncy feel of an innerspring mattress, this will be a good fit.

You sink into the Big Fig Mattress moderately far, and it offers moderate contouring as well, so you feel lightly cradled and hugged.

The Big Fig Mattress delivers fantastic responsiveness. You don't feel stuck or constrained when moving around on the mattress, making it easy to change sleeping positions. It recovers its shape almost instantly after being compressed.

This mattress has impressive motion isolation. You only feel motion for a moment, and mainly near its point of origin. When your partner rolls over, for example, you feel it in the lumbar region, but the movement dissipates quickly, so it's less likely to wake or disturb you.

The Big Fig Mattress has excellent edge support. The sides are reinforced with polyfoam, which doesn't compress easily. This makes getting in and out of bed easier and ensures that you don't feel like you're going to slip off when sleeping near the edge of the bed.

This mattress offers decent cooling performance, but it won't be sufficient if you sleep hot or live in a hot climate. It retains a fair amount of heat as you fall asleep and continues to dissipate heat fairly slowly throughout the night. If you tend to be chilly at night or if heat isn't a concern, this may not be an issue for you, but if you have trouble falling asleep in the heat or often wake up overheated, you may want to consider other options, such as the DreamCloud Luxe Hybrid.

While the manufacturer doesn't provide details on what materials the cover is made from, it does say that the quilted top contains cooling ThermoGel technology. It's not removable or machine-washable.

This mattress has additional polyfoam built into the edges, which helps give the mattress its excellent edge support.

This mattress has four layers of foam above its pocket spring support system. The quilted top is made from polyfoam and fiber fill, which helps give the surface of the mattress a cushy feel. Below that is a layer of latex. Latex has a bouncy, resilient feel that provides a good balance of pressure relief and support; however, the layer of latex in this mattress is very thin, so it probably doesn't impact the feel of the mattress much. The lower comfort layer and transition layers are made of polyfoam, which provides more pressure relief and helps contour your body.

All the foam layers in this mattress are dense enough to meet the standard for good or high quality. The polyfoam in the quilted top and lower comfort layer is of good quality, and the polyfoam in the transition layer is dense enough to be considered high quality. The latex in the lower comfort layer is good quality, too. These layers will resist signs of wear, like sagging and permanent impressions, longer than lower-quality foam.

There's 4.1" (10.3 cm) of foam above the pocket spring support system. The quilted top is 1.3" (3.3 cm) thick, which helps provide some cushioning. The latex foam used in the upper comfort layer is very thin, at just 0.4" (0.9 cm), so its impact is likely fairly insignificant. Below that, the polyfoam lower comfort layer is 1.4" (3.6 cm), helping to relieve pressure and support the recessed parts of your body. The lowest layer of foam is the 1" (2.5 cm) polyfoam transition layer, which helps ensure you won't sink through to the pocket springs if you compress the layers above.

A dense layer of pocket springs makes up the support tier of this mattress. Compared with other types of coils, these individually wrapped springs offer better motion isolation and contouring. The 14-gauge springs are medium-soft, though the high density of this layer makes it feel firmer. This layer offers support for the heavier parts of your body, like your shoulders, hips, or lumbar, depending on your sleeping position.

The softest components of this mattress are those closest to the sleeping surface. The polyfoam in the quilted top layer is fairly soft, but the upper comfort foam is much softer. This helps provide pressure relief, keeping you comfortable as you shift positions throughout the night. The lower comfort layer is a bit firmer than the layers above, which provides a balance of pressure relief and support, while the transition layer is the firmest foam overall, providing support and ensuring that you don't sink through to the pocket coils if you compress the layers above.

The springs make up the firmest layer of the mattress, delivering support to the heavier parts of your body that sink through the comfort layers, like the lumbar region for back sleepers, or shoulders and hips for side sleepers. The springs in the lumbar area are a little bit softer, allowing your lumbar region to sink slightly further into the mattress. While 14-gauge springs are medium-soft, the spring layer is very dense, increasing the stiffness of this layer and the mattress. Overall, the softer foam layers and firmer spring layer combine to provide a medium firmness level.

Most of the foam used is quite resilient or bouncy, leading to a responsive feel that makes it easier to shift around or change positions on the mattress. The exception is the latex upper comfort foam, which has significantly less resilience than the other foam layers but still offers a bit of bounciness, a characteristic of latex in general. This mattress's combination of resilient foam layers and pocket springs results in its noticeably bouncy feel overall.

The pocket coils are pretty bouncy and push back when pressure is applied. Combined with the resilient foam layers, this explains the mattress's noticeable bounciness.