Life With Quinn – Our First Week | Chase-Salerno Family Events

Well, we’re a very little happy, blessed family bubble! This first week postpartum has been amazing. We’ve had lots of nice visits with friends and family as well as delicious daily meal drop-off’s coordinated by our friend, Tarie. Erica’s taking it easy and caring for Quinn, feeling great. Declan’s a very affectionate big brother. And Michael is a proud papa of his new family and will be staying home with us for another few weeks.

Quinn is a lot like Declan was when he was a newborn, and probably basically like most newborns. Loves to nurse, sleep, pee, and poop, and be carried around, just held in general. A very peaceful, contented baby. The color scheme around here has evolved from blue and fire engine motifs to pink pink pink! Lots of gifts, and we’re having fun wrapping up our little one in rosy tones this time around.

Quinn’s birth was a beautiful, powerful, yet “normal”-feeling event, all at the same time. We also did a lotus birth, where the umbilical cord and placenta remain attached to the baby until it falls off naturally (fell off on Day 4), and after an appreciative thanks and farewell, Michael and Declan buried them in our yard. From nurturing Quinn, to nurturing our earth. We’re also practicing “EC,” or “Elimination Communication” where she’s basically diaper-free and pees/poops on prefolds or in a bowl. Just another way to do things that’s been working well for us so far. All of these things are ideas that Erica feels were intuitively prompted by Quinn while in utero.

We can’t believe it’s only been one week. We feel like we’ve all been together forever. Here are some pix from her first week.

Declan with Quinn, from birth on…