Rock-a-bye baby indeed! Levi Alves McConaughey, the month-old tot of Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend Camila Alves, isn’t one to keep his mom and pop from having their fun. In fact, they’ve already taken him to his first John Mellencamp concert.

“We’ve taken him out,” the actor tells CNN’s House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta for a show airing in two parts, Aug. 9 and Aug. 16. “Everywhere we go, we’re getting him traveling with us to get him equipped to be around sights and sounds of people… So our life has not changed. It just takes a little more prep time to do whatever it is you’re going to do.”

The process of bringing Levi into the world wasn’t quite so simple — the labor lasted nearly 60 hours — but Matthew is thankful for that experience as well.

“It was a great journey for both of us… We call it the best dance we’ve ever had.”

In the process, the pair smartly chose to store the baby’s cord blood, which may be helpful to Levi down the road, as well as the placenta, which the new parents intend to bury as part of an aboriginal custom.

“That’s fertile ground, so to speak,” he explains. “We’re going to plant it. It’s going to be in the orchards and it’s going to bear some wonderful fruit… When I was in Australia, they had a placenta tree… All the placentas of all that tribe went under one tree and it was this huge behemoth of just health and strength. And this tree was just growing taller and stronger above the rest of Mother Nature around it. It was gorgeous.”

Matthew also explains the fateful purpose behind the name Levi, which is actually another name for Matthew in the bible.

“A favorite verse of mine in the book of Matthew in the Bible, 6:22 is my favorite verse – we had a few names that we were thinking of naming the child, right? And Levi is one of them. But all of a sudden Levi comes into the world and the first cry out of his mouth, we look up and it’s 6:22 p.m. We were just like, oh my God, are you kidding me?”

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He’s so freaking cute!

As if jogging wasn’t hard enough – Matthew wears a Weight Vest? Dang!

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For Matthew McConaughey and his longtime love Camila Alves, welcoming their first son Levi Alves McConaughey on July 7 was typical of the way the couple handles everything in their lives: easy-going and as a team.

And now, in an exclusive interview and photoshoot, the 38-year-old actor opens up about becoming a father for the first time.

“We found a great rhythm,” Matthew tells OK! about the delivery of baby Levi. “Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.”

Levi was born at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and weighed a healthy 7 lbs., 4 oz., and Matthew tells OK! he kept a detailed diary of his and Camila’s hospital experience.

“I have it all chronicled,” he explained. “Becoming a dad is something I’ve dreamed of doing since I was 10. Becoming a father felt very, very natural. We were jamming! She was sweating. No painkiller, let’s go. She just clicked into that gear that only a woman has at a time like this. We’d been up for 40-something hours, and we went from dead tired to a really steadfast, ‘Let’s handle this… let’s stay in the rhythm. Don’t let the contraction be more than you.’”

Camila, 25, wanted a natural birth and chose not to have an epidural. But in the end, Matthew told OK! it came down to what was safest for both mom and baby.

“We ended up having an epidural because, on the large contractions, the umbilical cord was being compressed. They went in and tried the vacuum. This is where I learned — and no one tells you this — but having a baby is a bloody, pukey, sweaty, primeval thing! And I mean that as a beautiful thing. It is wild. But the vacuum didn’t work, and the doctor said, ‘C-section.’

The Texas-born actor says he cut the umbilical cord in “one snip” and got to hold his son for the first 15 minutes while doctors worked on Camila. Both he and the Brazilian beauty — who waited to know the sex of their baby — say they were not surprised to find out they had a boy.

“I said, ‘Come here, little man. I saw the pecker and screamed that we’d been right all along about him being a boy. Then I brought him over to her [Camila],’ Matthew said.

“It was neat to find out what the sex was because we didn’t have the doctor tell us beforehand,” Camila agrees.

So who does little Levi look more like? “Everybody thinks he looks like me because of the hair and skin tone,” Camila says. “I think he looks more like Matthew every day.”

Matthew adds, “I’ve pulled out some baby pictures of myself, and the resemblance is amazing. This kid has a lot to learn from us. I want him to come out being a little wiser, a little cooler and a little happier than we are.”

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Matthew McConaughey is turning his attentions to a new project – he has set up his own record company.

The A Time To Kill star has already signed his first act – a reggae singer – and is approaching other major music labels for backing.

A source tells New York gossip column PageSix, “He’s looking for a distribution deal with all the major labels for his own label. His first artist is a reggae guy called Mishka. The album will be called ‘Above the Bones’ and the first single is ‘Here Comes Da Train’.”

McConaughey’s spokesman has confirmed that the star has set up his own record label but insisted there is currently no date set for the company’s debut release.

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Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend Camila Alves will be $3 million richer after selling the first photos of their baby son Levi to a U.S. magazine, according to reports.

The couple welcomed the tot at a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, and has agreed to a deal with OK!, who will publish the baby boy’s first exclusive pictures, reports website TMZ.com.

The agreement is also said to include the baby’s first Christmas with the family and will grant the magazine first rights to wedding photos, should McConaughey and Alves walk down the aisle.

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Matthew McConaughey’s brother Rooster is glad the actor is a first-time father to a little boy – insisting they are easier to nurture than girls.

The Fool’s Gold actor became a dad to Levi Alves McConaughey on Monday night, his first child with girlfriend Camila Alves. And the star is said to be overjoyed with his new son, after his brother Rooster told him it’s best to have a boy first time as they are tougher.

Rooster tells People.com, “It’s good to have a boy the first time ’round! You can get away with dropping ‘em a couple times, and they’ll still be okay. Can’t really do that with a little girl.”

And Rooster is adamant his famous brother will make a great father.

He adds, “That guy is going to make one helluva dad.”

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