one week new

You came into the world and captured our hearts completely.

And in one short week

it already seemed like you have always been around.

Like you had always been part of our little family.

You were such a content and chilled out baby

and you made life with a newborn very easy for Mummy and Daddy.

Most of the day was spent either eating or sleeping,

and you were very quickly learning to sleep through the noise that your big brother made playing.

You were already starting to track him around the room when he moved

and we just knew that you were going to adore him.

We were sure you'd save all your best smiles and giggles for him

because you already seemed so interested in him.

You were very alert and interested in looking at the world around you,

so much so that you were already holding your head up to watch things

when you really shouldn't have been.

You were clearly going to be a nosey baby.

You were a fantastic sleeper

and right from the first night you had a long stretch of sleep,

and by your one week birthday

you seemed to have settled into a routine of having a feed about 11.30pm

the going straight to bed and sleeping until 7am.

You had joined a family who like their sleep

and it seemed like you were following suit.

Not that we would allow ourselves to believe it would all stay that way

but you were definitely making the transition into a family of four very easy on everyone.

Feeding was going really well

and it seemed like you were born just knowing what to do with breastfeeding.

And despite the fact that you were doing a long sleep at night

you were already gaining weight really well.

By five days, not only had you not lost weight as would be expected,

but you had gone up from your birth weight of 7lb 14oz to 8lb 2oz.

When you lost your little belly button stump we gave you your first bath.

Like most newborns

you weren't terribly keen on being stripped naked

but once you got used to the warm water pouring over your skin

you seemed to quite like your first splash about.

You had brought a lovely feeling over us when you came into the world.

There was lots of love obviously,

we adored you right from the start,

but you had also brought a content and complete feeling with you.

You made us feel like a proper family,

and we could wait to watch our family develop and grow up.

You just seemed like the perfect fit.