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[quote=Anonymous]Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. I happened to pick it up off the "new books" shelf at the library before I even thought I might have children, and it still moved me to my core. Here's a blurb that I totally agree with:

"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."      
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles[/quote]

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