The Pressure

Easter Weekend was spent driving to Calgary to spend time with family and friends. I have to say; God Bless portable DVD players! My 2 boys (aged 4 & 2) behaved like perect little angels and if they did start getting unsettled, we flipped on the DVD player with a little Mickey’s Clubhouse and they were content to sit and watch. We stayed at my sister-in-laws brand new house. Chantelle got the bed with Tristan, the 2 year old, while I slept on an air mattress on the floor with Tyler.

Chantelle often complains of tingling in her fingers and shoulder pain whenwe travel and she sleeps on a surface that is too firm, I never had the pleasure until this trip. I was quite surprised on the degree of alignment and support I got from the air mattress, as after driving 7 hours my back was tight and I was expecting it to get worse on the air bed. Likely sleeping with Ty allowed me take any and all of the alignment and support values this bed had to offer since he is so light. But while my back was taken care of, I struggled with pressure points in my shoulders and hips all weekend. To the point, where waking up the one morning, my shoulder felt as if someone had been beating on it with Sherwood 5030pmp wooden hockey stick all night (my favorite stick from my jounior hockey days) and the tips of my fingers were numb and tingling. It must of taken 15 – 20 minutes for the sensation to disappear.

Despite the fact that the mattress air level was moderate, my weight still displaced enough air that the surface under me was like a rock causing severe pressure issues in my shoulders and hips. I remember the same feelings on our previous pillow top mattress, where the foam had collapsed in the areas that we slept after only 18 – 24 months, although I had never experienced the tingling fingers before. Needless to say I was very happy when we got home to climb in to our intelliBED and have a deep, refreshing sleep. Now if I can only convince Tristan to stay in his crib and not come into ours at 3am every morning and start pinching!!

Should I pinch him back?