On her flight from Ukraine, she constantly feared that labor might start: Two days following her arrival in Germany, Anna Marchenko has now a healthy child was born.
Two days following their arrival in Germany has one before the war in the Ukraine refugees in Bad Oeynhausen gave birth to a healthy child. Anna Marchenko was very pregnant and fled with her 17-year-old son from the Russian shelling from her homeland. On March 4, she was able to hold her second son Daniel in her arms for the first time, the Mühlenkreis clinics announced on Monday. “I was lucky, but my heart is heavy,” said Anna Marchenko, referring to the relatives, who spoke of great destruction and many deaths in their country.
The bus ride from Dnipro to Lviv and on to the Polish border was terrible, Marchenko said, according to the clinic. They were almost hit by a rocket. She was constantly afraid that contractions might start on the way.
In Poland she was picked up by her husband, who lives in Bad Oeynhausen, whom she married in November. The trip to Germany had been planned for a long time, but under different conditions. Now she wishes for her little son “happiness, health, and no war,” the statement said. “War is hard for a mother to endure,” Marchenko said.
The birth in the Bad Oeynhausen hospital went smoothly, it will always be something special for the clinic team, said the director of the obstetrics clinic at the site, Manfred Schmitt. “You learn to appreciate the peace we have and our healthcare system once more.”
