MaternityShare

Today I moved into the living room. There I can see out the windows and I get a ton of natural light. It is a nice change. In the bedroom area it is a bit dark and there is no view out of the window from bed

I was able to do bed rest in the living room because we got an air mattress which we topped with a 3″ memory foam pad. We have been off-gassing them for over a week due to unnatural smells emanating from them that give me a headache and make my eyes itchy. They are still potent smelling (especially the memory foam) but I get around direct inhalation of it by placing a pillow or other object to block the area immediately in front of my face.

I worry about whatever it is that makes the odor and what it may do to my and the baby’s health but when I read up on memory foam it seemed that the main concern is the fire retardant that it could be treated with. When I read up further on this I found that California had banned the use of Toxic Flame Retardants (PBDEs) in things like mattresses. It remains unclear to me though when this law actually went into effect as well as whether or not this law keeps states who do not have this law from shipping items (we ordered it off of overstock.com) treated with PBDEs into California.

I have more research to do on this matter…