Is 生まれてくる an active thing, and how to translate it?


For the birth of our son, we received a very nice card saying:

> うまれてきてくれて  
>  ありがとう

While I entirely understand what it says, it seems impossible to express that
exact meaning with the same nuance in another language like English. "To be
born" is a passive thing, but 生まれてきて sounds like an active thing the baby did.
How to reconcile that?




If you wanted a translation that used a verb phrase in the active voice form,
the easiest one that actually nicely captures the nuance of the original would
be:

> "Thank you for coming into the/this world."

I personally would not bother with any forms of the verb "to bear" in this
case.

