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Here’s my deal: I’m supposed (along with my five month pregnant wife and two year old daughter) move to a new apartment in my building this weekend. Last week, management told me that the apartments below me and above me had bedbugs. They sent an exterminator to my place on saturday and she found two “husks”, but not any live bedbugs (guess what my wife thought were misqoutos were actually bed bugs).

The exterminator sprayed the baseboards and put down powder by the foot of the bed, but didn’t do a full spraying b/c of my wife and daughter. We then bought protective mattresses for our bed and our daughters and sealed both up after the spraying. the exterminator is saying that it will be safe to bring our mattresses to our new apartment because our infestation didn’t seem too serious.

I’m wondering if we’re making a mistake by bringing the mattresses to the new place. Does any one who has any experience with bed bugs have any advice? are there levels of bed bug infestation? Or if you only have a few “husks”, is that still serious?

thanks…..