Martins World

Lea Sophie is my brother’s daughter and a big fan of her cousin Nadja. Or course Nadja is a big fan of Lea, too ;-). Monday is Grandma & Grandpa-Day. That means my parents pick up Nadja from Kindergarten. Usually Lea will join them as soon as school is out. Luckily everything is very close. School, kindergarten and the flats of my brother and my parents are within less than 5 min walking distance.

Having both girls under control is quite a challenge, which Grandma and Grandpa can meet phantasticly. And they are rewarded with many beautiful moments. Some of them they could save on zelluloid memory cards. The pictures were taken in March, however enjoy Lea and Nadja in action!

We hesitated a little before announcing it here. Probably because we could not believe it ourselves. Or better: needed some time to realize it, to believe it. And maybe because we wanted the first 12 weeks, which are said to be critical, to pass by. However, a lot of people around us already know it, and now it’s time to “tell it the world”: We are going to be parents again!

“Okay, great, congratulations. But “miracle“? Isn’t that a bit overreacting?” some of you may think. Especially as we have already a wonderful daughter, Nadja. That’s right, somehow! However then I may recommend to read this blog post dated 6th February 2008. Maybe then you understand why we call it a miracle… because we were told by the doctors that we will never be able to get birth to a baby. “Doing it naturally” we were told the chances would be 1:1.000.000  - okay, this was not a proven statistical figure. However, after even test-tube fertizilation did not work for us, we “closed that file”… and then we got this (positive) shock!

So, what’s left?

1) “Mother nature” plays her own game – doctors can only do something, but not everything.

2) You are officially promoted to the circle of people who can tell any couple planning to adopt a baby: “Yes, go ahead. After adoption you will get pregnant then. I know a couple…” ;-)

This is an article about the new German law against child sexual abuse and why it is not only useless but dangerous. As this is a German-only topic I won’t translate it to English. However, if you are interested in that topic I can recommend this article which explains the topic in English.