Is Your Mattress Too Hot?

Perhaps you have recently purchased a new mattress like we have and found that you have been waking up, tossing and turning because you are just too hot. Now if you are female and in my age bracket, you are probably blaming these hot spells on peri-menopause, menopause, or just hormones in general. That's what I was doing until ....

My husband got a cold recently and I slept in one of our other bedrooms with an older mattress. I noticed I wasn't waking up as often because of being overheated. Then I realized not only was it an older mattress but it had a really nice heavy feather bed on top of the mattress.

So I moved the feather bed on to our master bedroom bed and placed it on top of the mattress. I placed the bottom fitted sheet over the feather bed and the mattress. Low and behold, it worked. I've had it on now for about a week and I am sleeping better thanks to Not waking up overheated.

Many mattress manufacturers are now just becoming aware of this issue, especially with mattress sets that use memory foam or other non-breathable fabric.

Thanks to lots of consumer complaints the newer mattresses are now promoting a cooling top or gel inside the memory foam.

You don't need to toss out your "hot mattress" - there are other solutions to cooling it and you down here:

For more tips on things you can do to "cool down" your bed visit: