This Tuesday December 2nd will be the 10 week marker with our little Willow Nerys. Our little nugget is sure full of life and awe! Each day brings a multitude of precious moments that light up the our world. We are fortunate for many things, one of which is to be alive right now, when we have all these techy goodies to aid us in trying to capture these moments. So here is another little movie of our nugget bug.
2 weeks, or so, and time has little meaning sorta. We have been enjoying our time with Willow. She is an amazing little human, and its easy to just spend hours looking at her, enjoying this little being. It is awesome to feel to loved, and supported by everyone, thanks again!
Here are some photos of the past week or so.
We also had our first outing into Golden Gate park, just a block from our home. It was a nice day, a tad chilly but perfect. Talk about a perspective change!!! the world just looks a tad different now, walking down this path with my wife and daughter and parents was awesome! Through this magnificent experience it feels like i have grabbed onto the live wire of life!
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.
At 6:32AM San Francisco, September 22nd 2009 Willow Nerys Lagos Sortore came bounding into the outside world.
After 4 ½ hours of labor Joy courageously pushed her out into the warm birthing tub water, within a few seconds Willow took her first breath, and made herself be heard loud and clear.
All 7Lbs of her are in perfect condition, and mama Joy Lagos is doing awesome, enjoying some well earned rest.
With hearts wide open,
Rodrigo, Joy, and Willow.
This Tuesday we go to do the second belly cast. I love doing these, so much fun, feel like a kid at playtime. Joy is totally sexy pregnant (and non pregnant too).
We are just over the 38 week mark now. The midwife visit was excellent on Friday, all is going well, very well as a matter of fact. We took the time to fill up the birth tub, which was a interesting endeavor, getting 150 gallons of hot water into this thing took a while, and it needed to be kitty proofed, last thing i wanted to wake up to was a kitty pool.
Everything is going so well, its a little mind blowing. I am so grateful to all of our friends that continue to be so generous with their time, and baby goods. This kid is coming into this world so loved and cared for! I am specially grateful to my wife, she is just amazing! Carrying around our little one, all uncomfortable and all. She is the best!
Yesterday we started the 37th week. As official as it gets, baby is done cooking. All systems go, and ready. Very exciting time. I fell asleep thinking.. humm the next time the sun comes up, it could be a dad. wow that is cool.
The excitement is hard to contain.
It feels like there is an alien inside my tummy. we have got one wiggly baby growing in there. can’t believe we are at 32 weeks. it seems like time is just flying by. still working on getting things ready for the arrival but not much left to do.
Belly at 7months
The last month has been fantastic. Joy continues to do really well. She has been showing that baby bump more and more each day. There are mornings when i look at her and think, humm, i think the belly popped out some during the night. The belly is growing much faster now, and its very exciting.
One of the things everyone, and in mean EVERYONE! says about having a baby is: “You better do all the things you want to do now, because once the baby arrives….” Well, we took some of this advice and took a “babymoon” to Maui, Hawaii early in June. 7 days great weather, good food, lounging, being together and enjoying each other. It was fantastic. Here is one of my favorite pics from the trip.
We have had a couple more visits with out midwives and they are terrific.
The clock is now around 25 weeks and few days! I can feel it getting more and more exciting each day. We started to put together our list of things we need for the home, the car and so forth, scheduling some time to actually go get things, i know that in no time at all its going to be go time. I am grateful that we get time to enjoy it all as it happens!
For me the word Mom or Mama (think Spanish) has meant one person, until now. This past mothers day that has really shifted for me. More and more each day its gets clearer how Joy embodies motherhood, how she exudes a nurturing, caring, loving, beings that has no word can convey its powerfulness and beauty. We celebrated mothers day by going to a small breakfast place in Berkeley “The Homemade Cafe”, this was the place where we eat on our first date, and it was just fitting to start the day there. We then took in some time in Napa, enjoying the warm day together, and doing one of the things we both love the most, eating excellent food. I find that each day, my whole perspective, life, being aligns more and more to the future. It is a strange feeling to start seeing with a different set of eyes, how the world is changing focus on a daily basis. Lots of folks have said “Just you wait till you are a parent…” and for the first time i can start to get what they are talking about. Humm, wow, they day that bundle arrives things are really gonna shift! and i can’t wait.
Here is a picture of Joy at the start of our mother’s day.
