Deb - get this, they finally got me a new bed, and it was a normal double bed so that DH could stay with me if he wanted to (it was already in the room). Thing was, it was so incredibly painful getting in and out of bed at that level, that I actually asked that I get a single bed back and the double bed be moved across the other side of the room where it had originally been, so that DH could still stay. The b*tch of a midwife told me that she would show me how to get in and out of bed so that it didn't hurt me, but having a bad back, I knew the correct way to get in and out of bed and was 99% certain I was doing it the best way possible. Well, what do you know, the midwife showed me, and of course, it was the way I'd already been doing it. When I told her this and said it was just too painful, and again requested another bed, she said this to me "You'll just have to bite your lip and do it". ARGH!!!

I have a confession to make too, which I have to say to this day I am incredibly embarrassed about. I don't know where Jacob was on his first night.....whether he was with me, or in the nursery. I was so out of it from days without sleep, and full of pain relief medication and in such a horrible emotional state that I just can't remember..........I feel so awful that I don't know. DH wasn't in the hospital with me that night either, so he also doesn't know.