Henry's Half Birthday Milestone

Six months old yesterday... here's some pics of Henry doing one of the things he does best; eating! He's in his brand new whiz bang high chair.

At this stage Henry has enjoyed eating rice cereal, peach, banana, broccoli, corn, zucchini, pumpkin, carrot, blueberry, chicken, risoni,  vegemite on toast and yoghurt!

He loves feeding himself with a spoon too :-)

Happy Henry

If you had told me 2 or 3 months ago what a smiley happy baby Henry would become, I don't know if I would have believed you! These days he almost smiles on command. His laughter is just a bit infectious and he can laugh at the simplest things. Today it was my jolting him on my knees and saying a-tishoo after he had had a big sneeze. This got huge laughs from him at least 20 times! Thanks to Mum to taking these pics during our skype session :-)

Henry's Arrival

Well I had a sneaking suspicion that bubby would be a week or so early and he was. Due on August 5th, Henry decided to make his arrival on the earlier date of July 29th. I actually went into labour on the morning of the 28th, waking up realising that something felt a bit different. I got up at 6am and went to sit by myself in the lounge room, with my laptop, googling phrases such as "what is early labour like?" After a couple of hours, I felt pretty certain that I was in early labour so I rang my midwife and then Mum to warn her that she may be making a Sydney to Canberra trip that day. Finally by about 4.30pm, the time between contractions seemed to be getting closer to 4 minutes so we left for the birthing centre. The thing was, that by about 10pm that had spread back out to about 10 minutes and I was advised to go home overnight as I was only 3cm dilated. After a good 16 hours! I went home with painkillers but was up by 2am again, working through contractions that lasted over 2 minutes. They still hadn't started getting closer together. As it became obvious throughout the day that things weren't progressing, I had both an epidural and eventually the decision to have a caesarian was made, mainly due to Henry's heart rate dropping each time I had a contraction. We were both exhausted and even though I had wanted a natural birth, it felt like a relief to know that soon it would be over and I would have my baby in my arms. A couple of hours later, he was. Safe and healthy, Dale and I adored him the minute we laid eyes on him.