About us
About me
With my passion for graphic design, I have found a way to capture memories of a very special time in my life for eternity. The idea for Wunderwutz came from an illustration that shows how small and delicate my premature son was.
Our history
We are Viki and Tom, and I (Viki) run this site alone. And like some of you, we are parents of premature babies ❤️
Until our son was born, our little family consisted of us and our two dogs.
Shoey, my soul dog (a Chihuahua) and Rosi our loving Kasperl (a French Bulldog).
On June 5th, 2021 our family grew. ❤️
This day will forever remain very special for us. He completely changed our life, but especially my life.
On the way to what was supposed to be our last vacation together in Italy, we stopped at the Klagenfurt hospital before the Italian border to be on the safe side due to strong "pulling of the mother's ligament" - not knowing that I wouldn't be leaving Klagenfurt for 11 weeks.
I was already in the hospital the day before our trip to Italy, but it was close to “us”. There I was informed that the tightening in my stomach that I was feeling was definitely coming from the uterine ligaments and that nothing stood in the way of a vacation in Italy so early in the week. You're always wiser in hindsight...
The short version :
It was cervix contractions and I was injected with contraction inhibitors and lung maturation agents.
The contraction inhibitor didn't help and a few hours later, on the same day, I gave birth to our son Nino naturally in the 27+1 week of pregnancy
Luckily we had driven to a hospital with an intensive neonatal unit. I hadn't googled that, nor did I know whether they even had a gynecological outpatient clinic. I consider it fate!
I was 3 hours away from our home with Nino for 11 weeks. Tom had to work but took most Fridays and Mondays off so he could extend the weekends and have more time for us.
It was a week of hope and fear. There were weeks in which I couldn't understand what had happened.
Friends have often said to us, "Wow, we admire you for handling everything so well." But we simply had no choice.
Often it catches up with me and I get sentimental even though everything went well 🙏 and sometimes I understand what my friends meant. Viewed from a bird's eye view and from a distance, our story feels surreal.
Completely healthy today , we are enjoying our time as a family and I enjoy creating lasting memories for you too.