A year in the life of Iolanda.: Second month.

There can't be that many people that can say they've celebrated their second month on earth in the sky on a plane! On the 4th March, exactly two months after your birth, we are all on an Alitalia flight from London to Milan.

The big change of your second month is that, from your sixth week, you've slept in your own little room. You still wake up every 3 hours, but now you settle back to sleep quite quickly which is a massive improvement from the one hour plus you used to take to get back to dreamland!

You still have your weekly baths, but something that is still unchanged are the shrill screams that accompany your trips to the changing table!

First suntan!

You had your check-up with the GP and everything was fine, as well as getting your first jab of vaccination. Of course this jab caused a terrible scream from you, but afterward you were fine and back to sleep in your pram.

During your second month you also got your first passport, as well as reaching the weight of 4.2kg, roughly 1kg heavier than your birth weight. From about seven weeks you started to give us some small smiles, something which caused us immense happiness! Generally you are starting to play a lot more with your hands, making new sounds and those little legs of yours kick ferociously in your basket. We can see you becoming a good runner already!

There have been a few changes in your facial features as well, most of all your eyes that are growing bigger by the day. Worryingly (especially for your dad who will carry the blame!), you are losing your hair! Despite numerous assurances that this is normal, we've gotten into the habit of almost counting all the hairs on your little head!

You also get around a fair bit! You and your mom continue to meet up with the other moms and babies in our NCT group as well as the group of Italian moms and babies and you even got onto the tube all the way to Chalk Farm to visit Alessandra's former colleagues at the Chassay and Last Architectural firm. To top it all of a visit was taken to Mile End where you met Alessandra's current colleagues at the Queen Mary University of London.