Sy vriende was behoorlik uit die veld geslaan toe hy in November verlede jaar op die sosiale media sy pragtige babadogter aan die w\u00eareld bekend stel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hil\u00e8-Irene van Niekerk was vir almal, behalwe Johan se heel naaste familie, \u2019n groot verrassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Want sien, prof. Johan van Niekerk, dosent in volhoubare landboustelsels en ontwikkeling aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (UV), is \u2019n enkellopende man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nou, drie maande n\u00e1 die geboorte van klein Hil\u00e8, s\u00ea hy dit voel maar net asof hy nog altyd \u2019n pa was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit voel vir my so natuurlik, so asof dit nog altyd so bestem was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het seker nog altyd daarvan gedroom om pa te wees, maar die regte vrou het nog nie gekom nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens die streng inperking in 2020 het hy Jonathan Kaplan se boek Winging It <\/i>gelees. Dit vertel die verhaal van di\u00e9 w\u00eareldbekende rugbyskeidsregter wat op 47 besluit het om deur middel van \u2019n surrogaat-swangerskap \u2019n baba van sy eie te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJK se storie het my aangegryp en ek het geweet ek wil dit ook doen,\u201d s\u00ea Johan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het kontak gemaak met Robynne Friedman, \u2019n prokureur wat in die hantering van surrogaat-swangerskappe spesialiseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het my vertel hoe dit werk en ges\u00ea ek moet goed nadink en haar laat weet. \u2019n Week later het ek haar teruggebel, en die proses het begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het gewaarsku dat dit tot drie jaar kan neem om \u2019n geskikte surrogaat te vind, maar \u2019n week later het sy my gebel. Sy het ges\u00ea sy het iemand gevind, maar dat ek dadelik moet besluit omdat sy \u2019n baie lang waglys het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johan was oorstelp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie eerste stap was om na die hooggeregshof in Bloemfontein te gaan om volle seggenskap oor die kind se DNS te kry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit sou beteken dat slegs hy kan besluit om die swangerskap te be\u00ebindig, sou daar komplikasies wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy moes \u2019n eierselskenker uit \u2019n databasis kies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op 8 November 2020 is 13 eiers bevrug, en drie sterk embrio\u2019s het ontwikkel waarvan die een op 8 Maart in die surrogaatma se baarmoeder geplant is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was soos drie fietse wat op verskillende plekke begin het om uiteindelik te lei tot die geboorte van Hil\u00e8.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slegs Johan se naam staan op die geboortesertifikaat van sy dogter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hil\u00e8 is op 15 November 2021 in die Mediclinic Sandton gebore en is direk in Johan se hande geplaas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was drie dae in die hospitaal saam met haar voordat ons huis toe gekom het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johan het groot lof vir die Suid-Afrikaanse regstelsel wat dit vir mans moontlik maak om alleenseggenskap oor hul kinders te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea Friedman het al meer as 100 pa\u2019s oor Suid-Afrika heen gehelp om babas te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir my is haar geboorte \u2019n bewys dat daar \u2019n God is. Dit is iets so onwaarskynlik, en tog is dit moontlik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johan is dankbaar vir die Bloemfonteinse gemeenskap wat Hil\u00e8 se geboorte aanvaar het en hulle twee op die hande dra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bedags wanneer Johan by die werk is, sien \u2019n kinderoppasser na Hil\u00e8 om.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir my is die heel lekkerste tyd van die dag wanneer ek om 17:00 van die werk af kom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie mooiste is wanneer sy vir my glimlag \u2013 sy weet ek is haar pappa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea hy was baie bly dit is \u2019n dogtertjie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy is genoem na die twee vroue in my lewe \u2013 my ma, Hil\u00e8, en my sussie, Irene.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Irene en haar gesin woon reg langs Johan, en die kinders is baie opgewonde oor hul nuwe niggie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy wens vir haar is dat sy \u2019n liggie in die w\u00eareld sal wees. Sy moet die beste weergawe van haarself word,\u201d s\u00ea Johan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In reaksie op \u2019n vraag of hy vir nog kinders kans sien, gooi hy \u2019n bietjie wal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGee net kans dat sy darem eers een jaar oud is,\u201d lag hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tussendeur kom hy goed oor die weg met die bottels en doeke, en badtyd is speeltyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En wat as die liefde van sy lewe nou oor sy pad kom? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy moet net weet ek kom nou met \u2019n pakket. Ek kom tweede en Hil\u00e8 eerste,\u201d s\u00ea die trotse nuwe pappa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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