I Bought A Weighted Blanket

Hey y'all,

I posted on Facebook a few days ago that I bought one of those weighted blankets you hear so much about for people with anxiety. A few people asked me to let them know what I thought about the blanket. Here's my review:

It's by far one of the best purchase decisions I've ever made, and it was an accident.
Amazon has that "buy with one click button" right underneath the "place in cart" button. Guess which one I hit while browsing.
My husband is one of those people who looks at things online, adds them to the cart, and then lets them sit there while he makes up his mind. I'm constantly having to go through the cart, saving things for later, before I actually buy what I logged on for (like unicorn laundry soap).
This time, I bought swiftly without meaning to. The blanket came and I was instantly in love.

A few things you may or may not know about yours truly:

After I got married to my best friend, I learned that I am a major snuggler. You're shrugging your shoulders right now thinking, "Yeah, me, too."

NO. I'm talking conscious-bedhog because I constantly need to be held. I'm talking, if I could glue Jacob's arms around me permanently, I would. I'm saying that I need an actual monkey on my back.

We call what I do in bed at night "burrowing" because it is just that: Jacob gets comfy and could fall asleep instantly. But here I come, clawing my way underneath him. I am not comfortable or serene enough to doze unless I have the weight of him pressing on me in some way.
Heck, it doesn't even have to be him. When he gets 2am work calls (like this morning) and I still have 4 hours of slumber to go, I do whatever I can to coax the cat to jump up and stay for those remaining 4 hours -- and eventually it dwindles down to like two hours of actual sleep because of this song and dance. I've even considered the fateful "co-sleeping" with my children. *gasp!*

I wear many layers of clothes to get that "hug" feeling. I battle insomnia pretty much every single night because there's no way for me to force my husband to sleep with his arms wrapped around me -- especially when he's a natural heat source and sweats profusely if we're too close.

I've logged much time pondering the reasons why I have such a problem (anxiety, depression, my husband works many long hours, I like all the hugs); and I've spent just as much time thinking and reading about getting a weighted blanket. They are $$; so I've been using a duvet that someone gave us for our wedding. But it's too big and makes Jacob sweat even more; thus, it's a lot to clean.

Enter the game-changing new blanket. Here's the specific one I got from Amazon. I got a child's size in 10lbs because I don't need it big enough to share (MINE; but mostly because Jacob sweats) and I wanted it small enough to not be cumbersome to take with me if we spend the night anywhere -- or just to drag it out to the couch for a movie night. All the hugs, all the time.
I love that this one comes with a removable minky cover; and there's even a coupon inside the bag to get 40% off of a lighter, summer cover for when you still need the weight without the heat.

I have not slept this soundly this consistently in a couple of years. The other day I wrapped it around my shoulders like a cape because I was feeling hormonal. It helped.
The only cons: it's making my body realize how much sleep I have missed and therefore need to catch up on; and thus it calls my name from wherever it is in the house, begging me not to Mom today and be hugged. The snuggle is real.

Also, the weight obviously takes some adjusting to, skeletal-wise. That sounds weird to say; but I have been waking up with a little back and neck pain -- but this is due to the fact that I am not a poster-child for "healthy sleep positions." I'm awful, all scruntchy and snuggled and -- well, burrowed.
The pain directs me to be more consistent with my yoga again, which isn't a bad thing, is it? And I'm positive that now that I've fixed the snuggling issue, I'll be able to sleep much more comfortably without having to curl into a ball to feel closeness.

In conclusion: if you severely struggle from insomnia like I do and you've tried to change every other variable there is, I would definitely recommend you look into getting yourself a weighted blanket.
Or if you struggle emotionally or even physically or just crave being wrapped up every now and again, then I recommend you get one of these bad boys.

I'm pretty sure this thing saved my marriage, even if Jacob doesn't want to outwardly complain about my being so needy and such a bedhog. I know he's relieved.