About the book from the publisher

From the moment Martha and her husband, John, accidentally conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. They'd plotted out a future in the most vaunted ivory tower of academe. But the dream had begun to disintegrate. When their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down's Syndrome , doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them that if they decided to keep the baby, they would lose all hope of achieving their carefully crafted goals. Fortunately, that's exactly what happened. Expecting Adam is a poignant, challenging, and achingly funny chronicle of the extraordinary nine months of Martha's pregnancy. By the time Adam was born, Martha and John were propelled into a world in which they were forced to redefine everything of value to them, put all their faith in miracles, and trust that they could fly without a net. And it worked.

Erin's Review

This is a great book. I wasn’t big on the mysticism, but I loved the intimate sharing of this upwardly mobile young academic couple as they struggle with the knowledge that their son will be born with Down Syndrome. They choose to continue the pregnancy despite advice from many sources that it would be best if they terminated it. It’s a lovely book, well written, and interesting insight into how own pregnancy with Maggie would have been different had we known she would have Angelman Syndrome. Given our ignorance of both Angelman Syndrome and of disabilities, would we have continued the pregnancy? I honestly don’t know, but I can’t imagine life without Maggie. This is an upbeat book from an open-minded woman who loves her son and loves the wisdom and new perspective that he brought into her life
. - Erin