Someone will hear us!

Our bed was the noisiest thing I have ever slept on. I bought it just before we met, which was almost two years ago. I got it on Craigslist. A couple got a bed suit as a wedding gift and was selling their king size set for $150. It was only a few months old, so I figured it was worth it. I had been bed shopping at The Original Mattress Factory and the Sleep Number Store. Since I had been sleeping on a waterbed for 19 years, a new bed seemed in order. $150 vs $1700 or $2500 seemed good. As a single guy at the time, the bed seemed OK and any noise was no big deal. Enter a wife and it was incredibly noisy. Every motion made noise on the foundation and mattress.

We finally got tired of the el cheapo mattress, the depressions in the mattress, the inability to flip the mattress, and all the noise waking each other up. This is not to mention the fact that when we were first married, we had her mother staying with us (she needed somewhere to live several months before we married, so I took in the future mother-in-law as a boarder for a while). The wife and I were constantly concerned about the bedroom noise.

We just had a baby, who is almost nine weeks old now. Yup, he is a honeymoon baby. We discussed the bed situation, since the old bed was noisy and we did not want to keep waking the baby, who was sleeping in a bassinet in our room for now. Wifey-poo was still healing from giving birth, so we were not going to have sex at the time, but we still were concerned about the noisy bed for when we were able to resume. Just cuddling, kissing, caressing, and for that matter, sleeping caused enough noise.

I checked out Paul’s recommendation from almost two years ago for an airbed web site. I liked what I saw. I also did not have the money to pay cash. I did not want to run up a Visa or MasterCard, either. One day while my bride and I were walking around the mall looking for a new pair of walking shoes for her, we came across The Sleep Number Store. She had never tried one of their beds before. So, we pushed the baby carriage into the store and she got to try out a bed. She was in love.

Since the store was having their annual sale at the time, just before Labor Day, we had discussed a new bed for a year, and the timing seemed right, we went ahead and got one of their nice Sleep Number beds on their financing plan. Fortunately, we had recently paid off her car, so we had the budget. She has been out of work for almost nine months, so we are weary of any debt. However, we figured that this was a long term investment for our marriage. She felt good about the bed, so we bought it.

The bed was delivered and set up a week and a half later. We both sleep a bit better now and we don’t make a lot of noise. Since she is now healed up from giving birth, we tried making love on it. It is awkward since we have two different settings on either side of the bed. Without me laying on my side, it is rather flacid (pardon the pun). We will figure it out. It is still a new bed, only about two weeks old now. The great news is that she loves to use the couch, no matter what.

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