My eight-year-old kept telling me her bed felt “too tight.” At 2:00 a.m., the camera finally showed me why.

For three weeks my daughter Mia repeated the same unusual sentence every night before going to sleep.
“Mom… my bed feels too tight.”

At first I assumed it was simply one of those odd expressions children use when they cannot properly describe discomfort. Mia was eight, full of imagination, and occasionally a little dramatic when bedtime approached.

“What do you mean tight?” I asked one evening while pulling the blanket up around her.

She shrugged.

“It just feels like something is squeezing it.”

I pressed my hand into the mattress.

It felt perfectly normal.

“You’re probably growing,” I said. “Beds can feel smaller when you get taller.”