Leading up to one month...

Xavier has been progressing really well, at the end of the first week he was weighed in at 4500gms. He is very alert and watches everything around him. He loves staring at the roof at my mum and dads house because of the dark beams on a white roof. He was so constipated for the first few weeks that he had to be given lactation drops. he absolutely loves his baths, he is definitely a water baby, we use aromatherapy bath stuff and it makes the water calm him right down when hes all upset and screaming... For the first month we had alot of trouble with Xavier not bringing his wind up very easily, we had to try everything to get his wind up, such as massaging his tummy, lifting him up and down and lying him tummy down on our laps so there was pressure on it.
Xavier loves to lie on his tummy, he prefers the tummy to any other position. he will lie still on his tummy for ages without crying. Sometimes being on his tummy will stop him from crying. He is really good at holding his head up on his own and loves to look around the room at different things of different contrasts. Things have been getting alot easier now that I've been getting to know him and his characteristics and all his different cries. He is such a happy baby, very content most of the time. He loves to just sit there, look around and be nosy.
Xavier loves to be held and cuddled. No matter who has him he just wants to be close to them.
He sleeps really well during the night, only wakes up once or twice for a feed then goes straight back to sleep.. But during the day its a different story, he hates sleeping during the day, he tries soo hard to stay awake so he can see whats happening around him. When he doesn't want to go to sleep but he needs to I snuggle him up into my chest with his dummy in his mouth and rock him... he falls asleep in minutes. At a month old Xavier weighs 12lb 14oz (5840grms).
Such a huge weight gain in one month!! When Xavier was 3 weeks off we had our first weekend away. We went to the 2009 Destiny Church conference in Auckland. During the weekend he was quite unsettled due to the change of environment which is totally understandable. But eventually we made it through the whole weekend without stressing too much.
Even though sometimes things get hard...
I love being a mother and i couldn't have asked for a better baby.
He is the best thing that has ever happened to me.