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night shifts

midnightbliss — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:35:36 -0500

I work in night shift and in the morning, I find if difficult to fall asleep or to have a deep sleep. most of teh time, I wake up at 2pm regardless of what time I sleep in the morning.

Not enough sleep

AmberS — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:51:29 -0500

I am so not getting enough sleep. It's partly the fault of the baby, who's still waking 2-3 times per night. But I have to lay claim to my part, as well. I stay up late because I want some time to myself. I have two little kids and so I get very little peace in my days. The result, though, is that I am not getting enough rest.

~ Amber

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Sleep is Great

brodiesmom89 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:29 -0500

My husband always makes fun of me because I can sleep so much. When I was pregnant 9 mos ago, I slept A LOT during the day and then again all night. Now I sleep 9 hours at night and usually take a 1-2 hour nap during the day while my baby is doing the same. I sometimes envy people who can get by on little sleep, but I just can't. I am blessed to fall asleep when my head hits the pillow and wake rested. I love sleep!!!

Erin S.

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Not getting enough sleep

Kelly Logan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:58:33 -0500

I definitely don't get enough sleep. There's so much to do in a day - sometimes I look at the clock and it's 10pm and I know I'm tired, but I still need to do more stuff. Before I know it, it's 2am!

I probably get around 5 hours each night and I know it's not enough.

Thank you for this post - hopefully it will inspire me to go to bed a little earlier tonight!

Kelly

I blog about my search for the perfect pair of women’s jeans.

Great tips

confusedhomemaker — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:36:10 -0500

great tips, i'm not getting as much as i'd like right now just because the baby is going through a growth spurt & teething at the same time. but i look forward again to the nights of straight sleep, you don't realize how nice that is until you don't have it for oh 6-7 years.

beth aka confusedhomemaker

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Bed Bugs

Sheerilee — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:48:25 -0500

SI heard that one way of preventing them is to wash your sheets in hot water. I would think that bleaching them would help also. However you hate to bleach colored sheets. I think I;ll take the advice about lavendar essential oil.

bed bugs

mary4 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:07:47 -0500

mary mays Have heard about this situation before. I just spray my matress with lavendar essential oil. It works.

a bedbug poem

jessica.schafer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:47:57 -0500

I wrote this back in October after the worse stress of moving a whole hallway out of the building was over. Enjoy!

The Breakup

dear bedbugs
I know that you love me
but alas, I do not want
to share my bed with you
our relationship is too one-sided
and I’m always asleep when you
want to spend time together

In Between Words

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Once in a lifetime is enough, right?

Cherre — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:05:57 -0500

Because I had bedbugs in my apartment just after college...horrible. If it happened again i might jump out the window! We had to move out the building and throw out our mattresses and upholstered furniture. Seems like once they're there, they never go away and now that I own where I live I just cannot imagine how I'd deal again...ughhhh!

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My students reported on this just yesterday

Kim Pearson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:13:24 -0500

I had my interactive news class go out and get the local angle on the bedbug crisis yesterday afternoon. They still have to get some video and images up, but their reports are here: http://ewingnews.ning.com/

KimBlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|

Real life experience

biscuitsandsuch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:08:35 -0500

My fiance and I are just coming out the other side of a (HORRIFIC) bedbug ordeal in Washington, D.C.

We discovered them living behind a picture frame in our bedroom, and then, after we had the apartment visited by pest control, after we cleaned every square inch of everything we own, and after losing hours of sleep, we discovered that they were also coming into our apartment through the walls from neighbor's residences.

We moved, but because female bedbugs lay up to 500 eggs in their lifetime and are incredibly tiny we brought some with us. All in all it's been a year long battle and I still wake up every night at 4 am thinking things are crawling all over me. I may not ever get a good night's sleep again.

One product that really got us through is EcoBugFree. I spent hours on the internet (hours that I couldn't sleep) researching things that would kill them. It's kind of expensive, but when you're getting 10-200 bites a night, believe me you wiill spend $30 on a bottle of spray. The good thing about it is that it kill bb instantly, and also seems to kill their eggs. So if you can find where they're nesting (cracks, bedframes, underneath furniture, behind picture frames) you can pretty successfully wipe out the population.

Also, invest in those vinyl mattress protectors for both your mattress and box spring. And try as hard as you can to keep your sanity!

I've HAD Bedbugs!!!

VintageDutchGirl — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:13:12 -0500

Believe it or not we have had bed bugs recently!!! Eeewww. Eeewww.

We think we got them from our married student apartment and took them with us in our mattress when moving into our BRAND NEW HOME.

I was pregnant when we moved and the bed bugs had a heyday with me. I kept thinking I was getting mosquito bites, but lo and behold I found bedbugs on our mattress.

I found them Dec 23rd. We promptly moved out, hired an exterminator and laundered every shred of clothing/fabric in our entire house. Oh yeah, I was 2 weeks postpartum with a preemie at the time...did I fail to mention that?

$450 later (which included the monthly follow up), special mattress covers and exhaustive cleaning later, we are bed bug free...WE HOPE.

This bug crosses all socioeconomic groups, five star hotels and all. It is a horrible thing to go to sleep in your house and not know if you will be bit again.

I started not to read this

Nordette — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:28:46 -0500

A few nights ago I started itching, and having been scared before after seeing a news story on bedbugs and now that I'm back home in Louisiana, place of odd critters, I shivered thinking it could be bedbugs. Turns out I was having a reaction to medication. Whew!

Yes, the news show I saw said what you've said in your post, that bed bugs are on the rise again, even showing up in the finest hotels.

Nordette: BlogHer CE and NOLA Lit Examiner. Blogs @ WSATA & UMBOP.

Bed Bags are BAD!

ResumeTemplates — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:27:35 -0500

Aaaaaaaaaah I wish when university or hostel didn't get these little critters, but it did. It was a nightmare to get rid of. It took about 8 months, b/c all it took was someone not following the treatment plan. Lets get rid of these critters for good! My grandmothers retirement village now has an outbreak, but according to her, the outbreak is now contained! Sounds like some kind of movie!

Fleur from Resume Templates

bed bugs are terrible!!

jessica.schafer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:49:02 -0500

I'm a resident director at a university and unfortunately, one of the hallways in my building got bedbugs and it was terrible!! Especially, because I felt like no one was giving me honest information about how hard they are to get rid of. There was an infestation the year before, when I wasn't working in the building, but I had assumed that the spraying they'd done and the summer months with no one in the residence would have dealt with the issue. Nope. Apparently, bed bugs can survive dormant for up to 18 months. Plus the sprays they use now only kill live bugs and not their eggs, which is frankly, just plan stupid. We had to move everyone out and completely gut that hallway, getting rid of all the wooden furniture and the carpets. Hopefully, the problem has been taken care of now, because I never want to go through that again!!

In Between Words

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