While I sit here and actually want to write about how much I enjoy being pregnant, I see the pictures of Aleppo on Facebook. Children who are in ruins, dead children, dead babies, crying women, crying men, screaming fathers. It just is not enduring. I have to cry and wonder if I'm oversensitive because I'm pregnant. No, it's just f..cking terrible. And it paralyzes because here in safe Germany you have the feeling that you can not do anything.
The mother of Gustav's classmate Hanna goes to Aleppo on foot, 3,000 km, to prove to the world that something can be done.
"I have thought a lot about this alleged powerlessness. People say that you can not do anything. But I have always felt the need to countercheck this, "says Anna Al both in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung.
Meanwhile, 2,000 people from all over Europe have joined her, who want to go the way with her (the refugee route backward). Anna Alboth organized the march across Europe in no time and mobilized helpers everywhere. If you are interested in attending or supporting the Civil March For Aleppo, you can contact us via the Facebook page.
I think it's very brave, I would not do it right now because I'm pregnant and wonder what else I can do from here. Donate money - that is of course always possible. Do you know where it's needed? Sometimes not. My neighbor works at Save the Children and assures me that it depends. Save the Children is on-site, as far as possible. So donate. And continue to help in Germany, because the pictures, the children and women in need, are the children and women of the refugee men who persevere here in Germany (I call it that way, because life is more than a bed and something to eat ) and have much more thoughts and pains than we who do not have any relatives in Syria.
And actually I wanted to write that it is still so bad for me in the morning and in the late afternoon. But actually I feel pretty good. You have to see everything in relation. My tiredness has gone down. My élan is back, my Hauptstadtmutti girls and I are at the end of the year and toil what we can to make all the promised articles and the advent calendar yet. But we are in a good mood. We had so many ideas for this year, but now it's over and that may be okay.
My stomach grows and grows and I feel like in the 7th Month, but de facto only at the end of the 4th Month. Okay, tomorrow I will be in the 17th week, at the very beginning of the 5th month. Nevertheless, I have a powerful belly. But it's also the third child because the belly already knows what he wants.
Our smallest, who was not so happy about the baby announcement, is now getting warm with the baby's thoughts. Yesterday, he said, "When the baby is out, I want to look at it, too." Pooh! It's going to be so slow. And then he tried to paint a baby, but he did not succeed. At some point he came crying to me: "I can not paint small heads, only large." We then painted a baby together and I have drawn a cradle around. And there it was again: "Why does the baby get such a big bed?" Oh, but that will be fine.
My pineapple cravings from the 1st trimester have disappeared. At the moment I need fish. Yesterday I bought a two-kilo carp because I thought I could do it on a trial basis for Christmas Eve this weekend. But two kilos? Pretty much for two adults and two children. Freeze maybe?
Maternity Clothes
And pregnancy fashion? I have not yet, except two pregnancy pants. Everything else I can wear so well. Clothes are fine and all my sweaters are still fine. The tights are getting too short and almost no longer fit over the stomach, but under the belly is also somehow stupid. I have to think of something pretty fast. Fortunately, there are now also great pregnancy tights.
My outfit in # SSW16
I'm really excited about the coat, it's from Ivy & Oak and super flexible. If you have a 'normal' figure, knock him over at the front. But it also fits over a huge belly when you're pregnant. The pants are from H & M. The shoes are my favorite winter shoes this year, they are very cuddly lined, suede and Clarks. The blue sweater is made of cashmere and unfortunately a bit short.
And the bag? This is the Vicky Bucket Bag by Project Oona in the color taupe (I'm also in pigeon blue). This is very handy for with child and without a child. This model here is made of very, very soft nubuck leather. The bags of Project Oona are now almost all produced in Germany, but in any case in Europe, which I personally think is good.
The Vicky Bucket Bag is currently available in taupe and black in the Christmas Special for 199 euros. If you still have an open Christmas wish or want to make yourself a nice gift, the opportunity would be favorable now. You just have to hurry up, because the offer is limited.
The only talk about refugee aid and then about bag purchases, that does not fit at all? If anyone thinks that now - I do not think so. One has nothing to do with the other for me. If you can buy a bag for 200 euros or more, you can also donate easily. And who is not, will certainly be able to make the right choice for themselves.