Ultra-Welfare Craftmatic

It has been awhile since I last posted but it has pretty much taken me this long to recover from work. The last few weeks of teaching were difficult-I was not sleeping well therefore getting up at 6AM and then dealing with 26 fourteen year olds was not exactly an idyllic way to spend the last few weeks of work before going on maternity leave.

I am still not sleeping well but at least I can nap whenever I feel like it, which has brought me somewhat back to sanity.

Back to the title of my post...we are all familiar with the Craftmatic bed that features old grannies and grampies high fiving each other as they raise, lower and vibrate the separate sides of their $10 000 beds. Well, the no-name version has hit the Aitken household and has provided better sleep for one of us.

As I had previously mentioned, I have become intimate with the flavour of my gastric juices this trimester on a nightly basis (which I think is extremely unfair). Since I can only lay on my sides now, you can only stack those pillows so high before your body refuses to bend anymore. As limber as I am right now, the pillows were just not cutting it, so I asked/demanded Iain to put some wood under the legs of the bed to give it an incline. The change in juice flow was minimal plus due to my insane wiggling and whale like breaching technique for turning over, every once in a while the legs would slip off of the wood and the bed would thump to the ground, which was pretty exciting at 3:38AM.

Next plan, elevate the actual mattress. In one of my preggy bibles, I read that 6 inches was the ideal height for your bed to be raised. This may not seem very formidable, but once you see a stack of 2" x 4' s that high, it certainly is. So Iain scuttled down to the garage to find some wood (I think I had this slight spazz attack at about 11:30PM) and came back up with a bunch of boards taped together with red tape you use to lay down laminate floor. So we heave up the front end of the mattress and place the wood between the mattress and the box spring and voila, the Ultra-Welfare Craftmatic is born. I was delighted with the sharp angle of the mattress, Iain was a bit apprehensive. Then I remembered Andrea left a big foam mattress here when she went overseas so I found that, folded it in half and put it on my side of the bed . Now my side of the bed is a good 4 inches taller than Iain's plus I have 4 pillows and body pillow. Let's put it this way, it is a good thing Iain is a stick. I would post a picture of my marvelous invention but that would mean I would have to go make my bed but you can call now for your no obligation free video and brochure.