We went and saw Dr Mark today, because Sebby has been getting lots of pain lately. It wakes him up from his sleep, or interrupts him when he is happily playing. He screams and cries (and makes mummy and Nanna cry too!), so we wanted to get him checked out.

 The GP thought it might have been a bowel obstruction so she sent us for a tummy ultrasound, but all that showed was lots of gas in his bowels (yup, takes after his daddy!). So we went and saw Dr Mark, the paediatrician, who said that he probably has some nasty heartburn from reflux.

We have started Sebby on some Mylanta when his pain hurts him, and it seems to be making it a bit better. Hopefully it will work because otherwise we will have to start on some medications, which mummy doesn't want to do!!

Today we saw Dr Mark, Seb's paediatrician. All is well, Seb is growing fantastically, reaching all of the milestones he should have reached by now, and is extra cute to boot!!

We are having our needles next week, which will make Mummy cry for sure, but better to be safe than sorry!!

Mummy also got a new camera that Daddy bought for her, and she has been taking lots and lots of pics of Sebby - check them out in the new photo section.

So, Seb's been doing pretty well - we went to the GP last Friday to get him checked up on (as he has thrush in his mouth which has been making him pretty unsettled). Dr Jane weighed him and he now weighs 4670g! What a porker! He has a double chin now too, which is really cute.

He has also grown another 2.5 cm, so he's now 57.5cm tall, and his head has grown 1cm, to make a circumfrence of 39cm (yay for the Watson genes!!)

 We spoke to Nick (my brother living in Japan) last night, and he finally got to see Seb on the webcam, even though Seb was being a trouble maker and not opening his eyes to see his Uncle Nick. We miss you Uncle Nick!!

We also have recently had visits from Aunty Louise and Aunty Linda from mummy's work (Congrats again Lou on the engagement!!),  Great Uncle Paul, Great Aunty Gay, Aunty Belinda and Aunty Monique from the Gold Coast, and Great Aunty Ann and Aunty Meg from Toowoomba. It was lovely to see you all, and we'll have to catch up again soon because he's getting so big so fast!

Seb has been having a couple of unsettled days, I think he's going through a growth spurt at the moment, he's feeding heaps (not giving his poor mummy any sleep at night), but we'll get there in the end!

Seb's Aunty Jayne had a baby last night - little Ryan William was born at 9:15pm in the same hospital as Seb, and we are going to visit them on Tuesday! Ryan and Seb are going to be great mates!! We can't wait to meet him and will post lots of pictures of the two of them when we get home. Congratulations Jayne and Daniel, the proud parents

Sebastian's due date was officially the 30^th June, and when that day came and went I was so upset. Dave and I had been trying for a baby for nearly a year before we conceived (on our first wedding anniversary!), and having to wait even longer to meet our son was just so hard.

I spoke to our obstetrician on Tuesday 3^rd July, who booked us in for an induction on Monday 9^th July. I was really upset about this, as I had wanted my birth to be as natural as possible and had heard horror stories about induction.

However, on Saturday 7^th July I went to bed with period type pains, and from about 10am Sunday morning I began to experience some regular tightenings with some pain. I didn't sleep at all on the Sunday night (even though I knew I had a big day ahead of us) as the contractions were about 8 minutes apart and becoming painful. I put the TENS machine on about 11pm, and used it throughout the entire labour.

We arrived at the hospital at 5:45am Monday morning for the induction. I was hooked up to the CTG for an hour before the obstetrician showed up. He did an internal and found I was two cm dilated, but not contracting regularly enough for him to leave it alone, so he popped in the prostin gel at 7:20am.He also told me at this time that the baby was posterior, and the midwives gave me some advice on how to turn him. After an hour of monitoring on the CTG, we headed up to our room.

I found that rocking back and forth on the birth ball so great for getting through the contractions, and the TENS machine made the back pain a lot more bearable. The midwives threatened me with artificial rupture of membranes if nothing had happened at 12:00, but with the next contraction they broke. We then headed down to the birthing suites.

I spent the next five hours kneeling on the bed rocking with my chest on the birthing ball, using the gas and TENS machine with each contraction. I was fully dilated at about 3pm, and so began pushing when I felt the need to with my contractions. I was on all fours at this stage, rocking my hips back and forth which really seemed to help. However, after about an hour and a half of pushing and not getting anywhere, the obstetrician was contacted. They popped on the foetal scalp monitor and noticed that the baby's heart rate was decelerating with each contraction, and were getting concerned. They told me that they would give me a spinal block and epidural combination because if the baby wasn't out within the next half hour I would need an emergency caesar. Needless to say I agreed, although I was disappointed that I needed the epidural because I had wanted to birth as naturally as possible.

Once the epidural was in, they placed me on my back and I began to push when I could feel the tightening of my abdomen. After a while they ended up giving me an episiotomy, and attempted to use the forceps to get the baby out. He was so malpositioned though that they couldn't get the forceps in the correct place, so ended up using the vacuum to get him out. He only turned at the very last second as I was pushing his head out. Two pushes later and little Sebastian Lester was born at 5:40pm. Even though he only had the vacuum cap on for four minutes his head was very very bruised and quite excoriated. As a result of this he had quite nasty jaundice for a few days, but his head looks much better now and he's doing just fine.