Gabriele Stangl is a warm-hearted and proactive woman who has helped countless women and families in great need. As a counselor at the Waldfrieden Clinic in Berlin-Zehlendorf, she has supported pregnant women who lacked assistance or care, who were desperate and completely alone. Often, she had to turn these women away.

Deeply shocking are reports of abandoned or killed infants. However, few know the hardships that mothers and unborn children endure beforehand. Against this backdrop, Gabriele Stangl, along with a dedicated team of supporters, established the first baby hatch in a clinic worldwide in 2000. Finally, mothers can place their children in safe hands when they feel lost and helpless.

Read about the fates of the children that Gabriele Stangl was able to take in and support despite resistance from authorities and politics. How did the children learn about their origins, about their birth mothers, and how has this shaped their lives with their later families, their heart mothers? This book emotionally portrays active support for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.