As promised I have put a few photos on Flickr that you can view here. The story about Grayson is as follows. He was due (for an elective C-section) on the 4th October. He didn't want to wait........so thanks to our conscientious O+G (who performed the operation on her weekend off!) we now have a baby boy. Mel started getting contractions on the Thursday (and as you might remember our O+G was still out of the country until Friday night). Things seemed to settle a little and did not progress thankfully on Friday. Come Saturday morning Mel started getting more contractions and now they were getting stronger! We called Dr Watson and she said to get back to her mid afternoon. So we decided to do a bit of shopping. We picked up some nice Jocelyn's lamb and rosemary pies for lunch and headed home. As soon as we had finished lunch Dr Watson called back. "How are you getting on?" she asked. To which Mel replied that the contractions were getting stronger. "Well what are we waiting for? Let's just do it!" was the doctors reply. And from lamb pies at home to a baby in our arms took just 1 and a half hours! Dr Watson doesn't mess around. I think she wanted to get home to watch the Grand final.
Grayson came out screaming but due to being 3 weeks early and not being squeezed out the usual way he had a little bit of fluid on his lungs (which isn't unusual in this situation) and had to spend the night in the special care nursery. He was very well behaved over night and was able to come to Mel's room the next morning. Now all we have to do is convince him to start breast feeding. He is making a good go at it but is still needing a few top ups by his NG tube. Apart from that he is doing quite well and of course is very cute (yes I realise that is what all parents say!)
Anyway I shall keep you updated with photos and blogs from time to time.
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