Having children in the future – Julia Zimmermann photographs protagonists, families, situations and places for the special about having children in the life of the Sunday newspaper.
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When Martin realizes that his sperm are not really good and that he cannot naturally become a father, he is overcome with grief. He had wanted children all his life. Here he tells how he still became a father.
M.The very first contact with the topic of assisted desire to have children was when I was sitting with a friend over wine and who made me the recommendation: Before you try it out for as long as we did, just let yourself be tested. The result of my first semen analysis was good, but the second and all subsequent ones were such that I was told: It is actually not possible the natural way. Since the findings were not so clear, we wrestled with ourselves for at least a year before we decided to go to the fertility center.
There were two moments during this time that really affected me. We had this appointment in the first fertility clinic, which we then switched, where the doctor said to me: “Some lines should end naturally.” This sentence always plays a role for me – the thought, the whole to have assisted in an artificial way and somehow tinkered with nature’s craft. The second moment was at the butcher’s when a father and his son were standing in front of me and he was handed this typical Viennese sausage over the counter. At that moment I thought: Maybe I’ll never see that. It made me very sad, but I only burst into tears when I told my wife about it.
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