Thanks Marydean and MG!

I booked in with the surgeon who orginally said I could have baby in room with me and so I paid up all the fees etc. However, later his receptionist rang and said that the surgeon had got the hospital policy wrong and I wouldn't be allowed baby. : ( But we'd already booked and paid, so we decided to still go ahead.

In the end I had 2 nights in hospital because I had a bad attack 2 days before my scheduled surgery so they admitted me through emergency and changed my surgery for the next day. I'm 3 days post op now and I still can't really lift baby but can manage to breastfeed but not much cuddle time as I'm too sore still. It sucks! It was quite traumatic for me to be separated from baby, (though the nurses allowed DH and baby to be with me on the ward way beyond normal visiting hours).

I never knew that gallstones could be a complication of pregnancy - so unfair! Just when you think it's all over....