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journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word in the. piece in germany. why not learn wisdom for. us in simple online on your mobile and free. music learning course 3 german made easy. johnny and stefan are a couple now they've become proud parents too. this is rooster from stray from as soon as i met stephanie i knew we could start a family together and it was such an incredible feeling to see our children for the 1st time. hard to miss the.

us this morning by the. sun. yet nobody feels. we got a lot of books from friends and neighbors and acquaintances we looked up a few chapters like i'm sleeping and stuff like that. we spent a lot of time talking to our midwife. and we followed our instincts lots of things just work themselves out. i live for him come for. every day family life and yet it's remarkable. night. but only so did johnny sister mary angela and his niece rosa supported him on his path to fatherhood was. this one of the new yorker sure you know over and work to create so 1st the embryos were created and then we met robin. that was 6 months

later or and we liked her right away we thought she was great and we knew we could picture going on this journey with her. again and she felt the same way so as of april 24th we knew if all goes well we'll be pregnant so. robyn carried the children to term as a surrogate mother they'd been conceived in a laboratory with 2 eggs donated by a different woman and sperm from each of the fathers in germany it's against the law to donate eggs or act as a surrogate but it is allowed in california funding of them and in that with the process is hugely expensive especially if you want to do it in the u.s. and you could probably afford your own home with that kind of money maybe not downtown but you could definitely get an apartment in a smaller city it was in one off an apartment the common. pool steffen and johnny were lucky and everything went well. you know john never. johnny

was in the operating theatre i was outside looking through a glass plane since it was a twin but only one of us was allowed in i said i'd be fine if i could watch through the glass and of course robin was the 1st one allowed to hold them. even because they were born we knew which baby was biologically related to whom and amalia and already you know both have the same model of the same egg donor this is biologically speaking they're half siblings and i fathered one when johnny fathered the other. salt you know and. today they're expecting an important visitor robyn the surrogate mother is on her way to stuttgart for the 1st time to see the family. live. to see them maybe yes. the twins are 6 months old now.

robin has 2 children of her own her daughter agree on i came along with her. really as. i gave birth to the twins because surrogacy is something i've always wanted to do and then when i met johnny and 2nd i knew they were perfect i loved being pregnant and so those are my reasons for doing it was to help turn stuff and. go. of course to make money from being a surrogate. but if you boil it down to the name and spell you're pregnant i think they say it's less than like 3 or $4.00 an hour for 9 months so really i think i'll get a part time job at mcdonald's and make more money than i would being pregnant for 9 months and i can't imagine just going through it. for the money you make it it's

it's the whole package. saturday is family day 1st they visit johnny's mother at a nursing home. after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage she's only got a speech. he's only young. girl so mom up with don't speak for me to fully have it priced about mothers oh mama i love being able to feed you thus you fed me for years and now it's nice that it's the other way around. the statement that all 3 of. us surrogate mothers give birth to about 6000 children a year in germany the embryo protection law forbids it even for heterosexual couples who can't conceive. critics say the ban is outdated by now plenty of couples like johnny and stefan look abroad to fulfill their wish of having their own children. the next stop is stephens parents' house in

a small town in upper swabian there are devout catholics. who would not work. goes along your voice or a little. more per year it's a whole no money. the sunday walk is a firm tradition to gay dads with their baby carriages isn't something you see every day at least not here boss or father it wasn't easy at 1st to deal with the fact that he was just different and gay but at the end of the day is over. him it's over. it's known as the holy mountain the opposite way below the walls it's a very special place people without children go up this mountain and pray for children and maybe it works after all. we used to call up paris kids all the time when so it's a great feeling to be back here now with our own kids on the bus and like you know

from the scene so aside from them a kid was sure the 1st one i told us that they were expecting it felt strange decide this but we accepted it and accepted the way things happened i mean we're happy with the children are here even if the church doesn't want that because but i don't agree with that if it's me 2 children have arrived in the church needs to accept that fact they're living creatures no matter where they're from and they're here now come and i was in town it think about their 1st attempt was immediately successful i must say it looks like god means them well that's what i think even that's right. so thinking. oh dear you and amalia might face tough questions down the road those or even hostilities. but their extended family supports them wholeheartedly stuck it out is a way of life and blow and stephanie and johnny can pass the strength on to their

children oh well houses in your book i back in stuttgart johnny and stephanie want to keep up their social times. it's a challenge all parents face. you know. i don't know when you're not having a good day today. i. know but this is 5 you can't do it like that you can't give him his pacifier. you need to take it away or he wanted or stand it it's time to eat now it's right but he doesn't want to eat then let him cry. just leave them. well they were. very nice all wound up he just needs to go

to bed. and it. was sort of you are in a bad mood today aren't you. stefan doesn't let anything fuster him not his fussy son or his partner. it's hot and then suddenly everything's all better. order. 2 months later it's the twins' 1st birthday. he's going to since just since things are a little hectic right now i just left the office and the guests are arriving at 230 . it was important to us to celebrate with our family and friends now but our little ones have been with us for a year and find no doing funny on stephan left the office early to make it to the party on time the twins are still in daycare. we moved since we have space to see

10 people. so johnny isn't a big fan of table cloths and stuff like that. that's up to me all done so i just said that. johnny and stefan share a business that means they can choose their own work how it's perfect for the small family i know or yeah some of this it looks great here but there every thing is ready. it looks fantastic i wish it was my birthday. it's all right it's just too orange i but it's a positive kind of stress and largely because sometimes but that's just the way things are but it's all worth it when the kids come home and see everything is. what they saw everything this morning 230 and that was lovely it's sad and that's just something that takes time no matter why. just move on move us on this cold guys. i. said oh it's so.

tough not loving. but married soon to a little fuel source of the fuck out look honey she can walk. and so can you. go way off. the stairs on tiptoe very selfish prick ok so it was her. honey under. the host families come to celebrate. i. think it was. really you know julie and stephanie want us to feel normal for their children they want them to understand that a family doesn't have to be a mother and a father to be full of love. and they want to keep in touch with the surrogate

mother often she sent a special gift for the 21st birthday. a package from america for the robinson something look it up the old oh my. gosh. well honey through o.-i are we sure 1st birthday is fun all day through from your 1st kiss to your last dream come true. there was. no you amalia and when you are in the very best hands i am. tired oh why do you. think my modest.

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