My eight-year-old kept telling me that her bed felt “too tight,” but at first I assumed she was just uncomfortable or imagining things. Night after night she mentioned it again, sounding more worried each time. Then one night at 2:00 a.m., I checked the room camera—and what it revealed finally explained exactly why she had been saying it.

the same thing: the bed felt tight again. At first her father dismissed the concern, suggesting that Mia might simply want attention or feel nervous about sleeping alone. Still, the repetition began to worry her mother. Eventually she decided to replace the mattress entirely, thinking perhaps the springs inside the old one were damaged or creating continue reading …