Welcome to my Postpartum and the Coronavirus blog. In this tough time, I wanted to share my daily updates with you my friends and community. I hope something in here makes you smile each day while we all hang in there and protect ourselves and community at large. We’re doing our part. We hope you’re doing yours.

I’m so happy that Phil and I decided to head out East to our house in the North Fork last Thursday. After the President’s address Wednesday, we knew we had to take this seriously. We ordered a huge grocery order from Costco, called my parents and told them to meet us there on Friday. We packed up Giuliana and came and that was that.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse. All of these countries around the world are closing their borders and New York state is in disarray. But I feel we are as prepared as we could be to protect ourselves and more importantly, my sweet baby girl whose only two and a half months old.

I’ve been running my household as a “fun prison” as I told them. We’re all eating immune boosting foods, we’re taking daily vitamins (C, D, omega 3 fish oils, turmeric, etc.) and getting our thirty minutes of exercise a day by walking in our backyard or doing a video on Youtube.

Sadly, I pulled my neck out a day ago, so taking it easy today. This was a long time coming. I’ve been misaligned throughout my pregnancy and was seeing a chiropractor during pregnancy – but he kept reminding me that I’d need to see him postpartum to realign my body since there were many things he couldn’t do to me while I was pregnant.

Given I had such a physical labor and now I’m breastfeeding, this was bound to happen. I’m just lucky that I have Phil and my parents here to be on baby duty. In some ways, this whole social distancing may bring our family closer together. Giuliana will have the first months of her life with her father and maternal grandparents around all the time. Under any normal circumstance, that wouldn’t be the case. So that is my silver lining for today.

We’re trying to make our time at home more fun, so we’re doing so through food and drink, specifically, since that’s what we Sicuros know how to do. Phil is taking his cocktail making skills to the next level and is making us a cocktail every night. He’s improvising as we go along as we don’t have a ton of fresh groceries at hand, but he’s rising to the challenge.