Wool matress covers??

Yup! I have some underneath dd's sheets to protect her mattress. I wool.

Hmmm.. I like that idea. I will try that under my occasional night time accident 3 year old. Abigail sleeps directly on top of a sheep skin (the kind they put under parapelegics to keep them from getting bedsores) and I have found tha tmy only problems is that she tends to wick in a wool soaker at night. I assume its because the wool fibers are directly touching, it doesn't matter which one. That is why she sleeps in an acrylic one (which I actually like )

I have a king-size felted wool flannel blanket on my bed under our sheet and it works just peachy. I opted for the wool once DS moved into our bed after his birth. Its PERFECT! It works pretty much like his wool soakers.

After seeing how nicely it worked on our bed, I went to the thrift store and bought a bunch of old wool blankets and machine washed them in some wool wash and lanolin and put them on all the beds. I even have one on DS's crib (which is more of a clothes hamper )

They do absorb moisture like a soaker would but I haven't found the mattress underneath to be damp even if the blanket is damp. In the morning, instead of "making the bed" I unmake it... by folding down the down comforter and letting the bed "air dry" just like I would with a soaker.

It also makes the bed feel warmer or cooler if that makes sense. I noticed with our old mattress pad that it would get too hot under the covers.