Wow. I never would have picked this book up on my own, but it was on the required reading list for CBI’s doula program.
I picked it up and couldn’t stop reading. This is such a touching story. It made me cry, it made me laugh, and it made me all the more sure of the Devine (God etc) working in our lives.
Martha recounts her horrible pregnancy (sounds like she had hyperemesis, combined with an autoimmune disorder) and her hopes being dashed as her and her husband find out that their baby isn’t “normal”. She talks about some supernatural things that happen to her and her husband throughout the pregnancy, and even once the child is born, though it doesn’t happen as often. Just after their son is born they realize that Adam wasn’t the one who needed “fixing”, it was them, and because of Adam and the magic he brought into their lives, they found that they weren’t broken anymore. And that was their miracle.
This book probably goes through every emotion a woman, and couple, go through when they find out they are expecting a child with a disability.
This is a MUST read.
