About Our Family
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My name is Lena, and I am the founder and blogger of The Wholesome Mother. I am driven by the wish to inspire and empower women and their partners who want to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle. Through my struggles with breastfeeding, I have become an advocate for raising awareness to normalize breastfeeding. I am a proud believer in gentle parenting and respectful parenting, as it is the parenting style which works best for our family and which felt the most natural to us. I love to feed my family healthy and nutritious meals, based on real, clean food and I am always on the hunt for family friendly recipes.
By offering information, resources and my own experiences, I hope to support and encourage families with a similar attitudes or anyone who is interested.
This is my story:
I was born and raised as the oldest of three sisters in a small town in Germany. In 2006, my husband and I met by chance on the internet. After a few trips to the US and Germany to visit each other, we got engaged and in 2008, I made the big move to the US to marry and to be with my love Ron.
Leading up to our 3rd anniversary in 2011, we decided we are ready to start a family! We were as ready as can be and so excited to start this journey together. We dumped birth control and were prepared to see a positive pregnancy test very soon. But sometimes things don't work out as planned and it should be quite while before we were to see that little plus sign...
After the first few months of trying to conceive without success, we tried a more "planned" approach, tracking my cycle and trying to have the perfect timing. Our patience was tested as months went by and so was our relationship. We started talking about different options, still hoping everything would just work out eventually. But after almost 1.5 years of trying to conceive and after taking lots and lots of negative pregnancy tests, endless tears and disappointment, we had to face reality and went for a check up at a OB's office. All results came back normal and we were left wondering.
As everyday life continued on, we took trips to Germany, bought our first house and adopted a second dog. For my 28th Birthday in August 2013, I had but one wish... And that wish came true just weeks after on Monday, September 10th, early in the morning, when we got our very first positive pregnancy test!!! We were so ecstatic and couldn't be happier!
On Halloween morning of 2015, we found out we are pregnant again! Our little boy was born in July 2016.
Now we are a family of four, living under one roof with two dogs, two cats and some salt water fishes, juggling two different cultures to create a harmonic and sometimes chaotic household. As our lives changed, so did we. We adapted a natural lifestyle based on healthy, real foods, holistic medicine, a respectful and gentle approach of raising our daughter and our son, a conscience of gratitude and most importantly, love.
Follow me on my journey:
By offering information, resources and my own experiences, I hope to support and encourage families with a similar attitudes or anyone who is interested.
This is my story:
I was born and raised as the oldest of three sisters in a small town in Germany. In 2006, my husband and I met by chance on the internet. After a few trips to the US and Germany to visit each other, we got engaged and in 2008, I made the big move to the US to marry and to be with my love Ron.
Leading up to our 3rd anniversary in 2011, we decided we are ready to start a family! We were as ready as can be and so excited to start this journey together. We dumped birth control and were prepared to see a positive pregnancy test very soon. But sometimes things don't work out as planned and it should be quite while before we were to see that little plus sign...
After the first few months of trying to conceive without success, we tried a more "planned" approach, tracking my cycle and trying to have the perfect timing. Our patience was tested as months went by and so was our relationship. We started talking about different options, still hoping everything would just work out eventually. But after almost 1.5 years of trying to conceive and after taking lots and lots of negative pregnancy tests, endless tears and disappointment, we had to face reality and went for a check up at a OB's office. All results came back normal and we were left wondering.
As everyday life continued on, we took trips to Germany, bought our first house and adopted a second dog. For my 28th Birthday in August 2013, I had but one wish... And that wish came true just weeks after on Monday, September 10th, early in the morning, when we got our very first positive pregnancy test!!! We were so ecstatic and couldn't be happier!
On Halloween morning of 2015, we found out we are pregnant again! Our little boy was born in July 2016.
Now we are a family of four, living under one roof with two dogs, two cats and some salt water fishes, juggling two different cultures to create a harmonic and sometimes chaotic household. As our lives changed, so did we. We adapted a natural lifestyle based on healthy, real foods, holistic medicine, a respectful and gentle approach of raising our daughter and our son, a conscience of gratitude and most importantly, love.
Follow me on my journey: