Rodrigo and Joy » General Video http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com Our journey of creating family - A fertility endeavor Mon, 16 May 2011 05:10:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Our Willow http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2009/09/29/our-willow/ http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2009/09/29/our-willow/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:53:47 +0000 Rodrigo http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/?p=215 One week ago Willow Nerys was birthed at home by my amazing wife Joy. We embarked together on a journey of family almost 3 years ago, it has taken determination, courage, hope, and love, as well as a huge number of our friends, family and strangers holding us, supporting us, loving us, and rooting for us. To each of you, thank you!

Willow was born at home in a 4.5 hour labor sprint, that flew by in a wink of an eye. She entered our home via warm birth tub, where Joy had labored most of those 4.5 hours. Willow weighed in at 7lbs and measured 21”, and is healthy and beautiful. Loved ones and our midwives have been taking excellent care of us through out this entire journey, and it simply rocks! We have been staying home, and basking in what i call the “Baby bubble”

Joy is the most amazing woman! Seeing her as she birthed life, has been the most deeply moving part of my life. I am so proud of her, so in love with her, and so ready to continue to deepen our love/life together for ever.

Words just can’t capture the vastness of the experience for us, best I can do right now is put together a short video from the last week.

]]> http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2009/09/29/our-willow/feed/ 20 Our story on the media http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/02/13/our-story-on-the-media/ http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/02/13/our-story-on-the-media/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:57:36 +0000 Rodrigo http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/02/13/our-story-on-the-media/ The Associated Press (AP) article that was written yesterday has gotten picked up in lots of markets. We are happy that it has gotten attention and more people are reading about it. Thank you everyone for all the great emails and comments. It really makes us all happy to know this is reaching others, and that it may bring as much happiness to other as it has already brought us.

Two San Francisco local TV stations did interviews with Joy last night (Maeapple lives about 4-5 hours away). I have put them up for you to look at. The AP story is in so many online outlets that you can read that one by searching for Joy Lagos or Maeapple Chaney on any search engine news section.

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Early on today she got out of bed for the first time, walked a few yards, and then sat back down. Without being able to eat or drink anything Joy is somewhat weak. After some more nausea, and going back to bed for a bit, she got out of bed, and this time walked about 3 times the distance than before. She can now get up and use the restroom (very good sign for post op). Both surgeons came by in the morning to check in on her. They removed the dressing on her incision, it is prefectly clean, and quite a beautiful sight, both are pleased with it. Dr. Silber had her on no liquids or solids yesterday, and now moved her into a clear liquid diet. If she continues to show improvements (i know she will) they will move her to some solids tonight and more tomorrow. It looks like she is going to spend at least one more night at the hospital.
Maeapple is doing great, i have not seen her yet today, but i heard from Mark (their father) that she is doing really good this morning. Up and about, taking a shower, all good to go. They are all coming by soon.
Here is a message from Joy directly.

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]]> http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/02/03/joy-cooking-it-up-at-home/feed/ 0 One week before we leave SF http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/01/28/one-week-before-we-leave-sf/ http://www.rodrigoandjoy.com/2007/01/28/one-week-before-we-leave-sf/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:07:12 +0000 Rodrigo http://beta.rodrigoandjoy.com/?p=25 It is one week before we leave SF and head to St. Louis. I put together this video to make sure i can do everything on the laptop, and be able to post once we are away from home.

As Joy says in the last post, all the support from everyone is making a huge difference, both financially and emotionally. Thank you so much for your caring words, notes, and donations.

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Here is my first test.
This is a slide show my brother made for us for our wedding last September.
Enjoy.
i will test out more videos later in the weekend.

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