James at one month

Sleep

His naps during the day are all over the place and there are some days where the only sleep he gets is when he falls asleep during a feed. At night James will usually sleep for 3 to 4 hours, waking to feed at around 1 and again at 4. His favorite place to sleep is on our chest.

Appearance

He has started to get a little bit of baby acne and his skin is continuing to peel like he has been sunburned. His lovely strawberry blonde hair is thinning on the top, leaving him with a hairline like an old man and a bit of a mullet. The red birth mark on his right eyelid seems to lighten and then darken over the course of the day. It turns bright red whenever he cries or becomes overtired. James has also inherited the Wood family ear lump - a small lump on his ear lobe that Lee, his sister, and both Lee's niece and nephew have. Let's just hope he inherits the good Wood family vision. At 1 month and 1 day James weighed 9 pounds, which was a great improvement from the previous week's measurement of 8 pounds 2 ounces.

Eating

James loves to eat but breastfeeding has been a struggle since we first tried to latch when he was placed on my chest post delivery. His shallow latch left me with painful nipples, a case of mastitis and lots of tears. We have been supplementing with formula since we got home from hospital due to the large weight loss (9%) and the lack of weight gain in the first 2 weeks. The supplementing with formula, along with whatever I could express, also helped to try and give my nipples a bit of a rest from the horrible latch. I'm just grateful that he is able to drink from a bottle and doesn't seem to have developed any confusion between the two. It is only in the past few days where we seem to be turning a corner with breastfeeding - the sensation is now manageable and no longer like he is shoving needles into my nipples.

Clothing 

He is still in all newborn sized clothes, which as it turns out, we didn't really have very many. There are tons of 0-3 outfits in his closet that remain untouched, but I'm sure that won't be for too much longer. The outfit that he came home from the hospital in is still quite loose in the body but is starting to get too tight in the length.

Likes and dislikes

Likes: baths, car rides, sleeping on our chests, eating, being in the Boba carrier
Dislikes: napping in his cot, getting out of the bath

Events

Getting his passport photo taken
Smiling!! (He first started smiling at around 3 weeks and we love to gurn at him like idiots to get him to smile)
1.5 hours car trip to visit family in Oxfordshire (he slept both directions)

Pictures from the past month