Angelika (32) and Stefan (37)

For the majority of my adult life, I have done everything to avoid getting pregnant.

First, I finished school, then my studies, and finally I had a chance to gain a foothold in an international company. I enjoyed my life to the fullest. Some friends might have labeled me a workaholic, but I liked what I was doing. I was able to make a difference, soon managed my own department, and with Stefan I had found a partner who didn't want to see me become a housewife. He was also successful professionally and in our not-so frequent but still exciting free time, we traveled a lot.

We got married three years ago. We had a great reception and of course, treated ourselves to a lavish honeymoon. Sharing a name inspired the desire to share even more things together. It was time for a baby, that was the plan. Since we were able to fulfill all of our life goals up until this point, we didn’t contemplate the possibility that getting pregnant might not be as easy as we expected. And we were right! Within 2 months after stopping birth control, I was pregnant. “well then,” I thought, “that was easy”, and I pushed my gynecologist’s warnings that it could take a while after stopping birth control aside.

Unfortunately, I lost the baby in the third month of pregnancy. Naturally, it came as a complete shock, especially after I woke up from the narcosis after the curettage and felt the emptiness in my belly. Despite all this, we remained optimistic. We were sad, but we believed that mother nature had a reason for preventing this child from growing. Despite all efforts from my gynecologist, a hormone status, even sending Stefan to see a urologist for an examination, I realized that there are always exceptions to the rule. Patience is not one of my strengths, nor is it one of Stefan’s.

Before we tried this and that half-heartedly for an extended period, we decided that going directly to the Wunschbaby Institute was in our best interests. During our first consultation, we learned that there were several other possible examinations we could receive that we had never heard of. We went through every single exam, which tried our patience, but in the end, it was worth it. Our daughter was born on the first of May (Labor Day), and yeah – the little cutie definitely took a lot of work to get. But she was well worth all our efforts!

Johanna, born on May 1st.