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Well, while the flight went well beyond mom’s expectations, the first week was surprisingly quite difficult. The changes were just too much for Keegan: a new environment, new language, lots of new people changed our super social guy into a quiet shy (but still super active) boy, who could not stay away from mom for more than a few minutes. The first day, Tizi could not even go to the bathroom without Keegan starting the waterworks. He was still laughing and smiling, but only with mom in sight. It was quite surprising for everyone, but obviously it is pretty normal for a baby this small. Mom and dad, and the grandparents were just a little too naive.

The worse part was night time. As you all know, Keegan never liked sleeping and with all those changes, his schedule was totally out of whack, meaning mom and baby DID NOT sleep. The first couple of days he woke up basically every hour, and would not go back to sleep without nursing. Sometimes, he would only sleep in Tizi’s bed. This was particularly hard because all this waking up didn’t allow Tizi to adjust to the new time zone especially since she basically stuck at home with Keegan and couldn’t even enjoy the beautiful sunshine. Furthermore, Keegan had perfected the standing up maneuver, and he would stand when he was waking up, and so there was also the fear he would fall out of the bed. It got so stressful, that Tizi was not even able to sleep when Keegan was falling back asleep, so she spent the first few days like a ZOMBIE.

All the wonderful plans of spending the first week visiting old friends and catching up, and enjoying time with her parents pretty much vanished, as she was too tired to do anything. Fortunately, the gradual adjustment came quickly. By Wednesday, two days after landing, Keegan would go out with grandma alone in his stroller. Just like in San Diego, Keegan LOVES going outside and checking everything out; Milano may not be as pretty as San Diego, but there is definitively lots more going on and lots more moving around, so for a curious guy like him it is paradise. As an added bonus, we realized he really like the stroller that Tizi’s good friend gave us, and he was falling asleep fine in it. So the new routine was, after a sleepless night, grandma would take Keegan out for a walk, so mom could sleep a little to regain some strength.

Our new best friend, the stroller

All this new things got me really tired…

Also, after a couple of days, he was eating more normally and getting into the new schedule. By Friday night, he was ready to re-learn to sleep all night by himself. We had to try, AGAIN, the crying out method, but by Saturday night he was sleeping all night again, in his crib. Just in time for daddy’s arrival.