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Sebastian's Birth Story

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As we approached our due date comments like, "oh your delivery never goes as planned," were near daily.  I knew this, but in the back of my mind I thought if I just considered worst case scenario, then I would have a blissful delivery.  Ha!  I was so wrong it's almost comical. We kept quiet about our pregnancy until we returned from our {belated} honeymoon to Australia.  While the prospect of spending weeks RV'ing around the outback foreign country already didn't sit well with my parents, the idea of a pregnancy didn't seem like a smart detail to reveal, just yet.  This was relatively easy, to be quite honest.  I never really had the typical pregnancy symptoms beyond the point of disguise.  Of course I was occasionally nauseous, and I turned into a champion sleeper... this wasn't anything that my colleagues or friends were easily able to pick up on.  Thankfully, I was kissed by some pregnancy god in that I didn't experience morning sickness lik...