My son had some tests at the hospital last night. So I went with him and spent the night there to be with him. Since he was the patient he was able to sleep in a nice hospital bed.  I, on the other hand, was given the privilege of sleeping on the hospital provided Transformer chair-bed.  I've "slept" on them before and I never look forward to doing it. With each of our children's birth I've tried to avoid sleeping on them as much as possible.  My wife didn't like it much, but there was just no way that I was going to be able to spend too many nights on those things. Last night was no different.  The tech came in and Transformed it into the "bed".  It was uncomfortable enough as a chair and it only got worse as a bed. It had zero padding on it, so it really was like sleeping on a slab of concrete.  The biggest problem was that I couldn't just sleep flat on my back because my shoulders were wider than the bed was.  So I ended up trying to sleep in all kinds of crazy positions. Nothing seemed to help body parts were tingling and asleep, but I was hardly able to get any kind of rest.  So when it was over this morning, I came home and jumped into my nice soft warm king sized bed and slept for over 3 hours. Just a bit of advice for Hospital Administrators out there, why don't you look at getting a partnership going with Serta.  Maybe Serta could provide you with some great beds for the parents to sleep on and the parents could subject themselves to hearing the Techs/Nurses/Doctors calling it by name every time they mention it.  "Hello sir, here are your linens for your Serta Perfect Sleep Hospital Edition bed.  Have good night's rest." I would think that the parents would love a good night's rest and who knows maybe they'll go buy a new Serta mattress just because during that super stressful time that they child was in the hospital, they remember that they got a great night's sleep on a Serta mattress.