Expecting Adam

Martha Beck, a Harvard grad student, has just discovered that she is pregnant, again.

While living in a small apartment just off campus, Martha and her husband, John, are already struggling to raise their 18 month old Katie, juggling homework, and trying to manage each other's hectic schedules and thriving careers all at the same time. But they can handle another child. They can make room for the baby in the apartment. Everything will be perfectly fine.

During Martha's first pregnancy, she was completely cursed with morning sickness 24/7. This time around is heading in that same direction. Except this time she is even more sick than before, and she constantly has to skip classes and schedule doctor appointments. Martha was sick before, but not this sick.

After several painful visits to the doctor's office, a blood test finally reveals that the baby, their baby boy, has down syndrome. The Becks' family members, colleages and classmates suggest terminating the pregnancy, but Martha and John can't do such a thing. They know that this baby is a miracle, a gift like all of God's creations. This baby may have down syndrome, but that doesn't make him any less of a human being at all. He's more than that.

As the pregnancy progresses, Martha encounters what she calls, "the seeing thing." During these experiences, she actually "sees" events that are happening in different places of the world or even just below their apartment. She can actually smell, hear, and taste the environment that her senses transport her to. Being the logical college-grad that she is, Martha tries to dismiss these experiences as dreams, but they continue to occur so vividly that she begins to doubt her own judgement.

Many other extraordinary experiences happen to Martha during her pregnancy with her baby boy, Adam, whose name just came to her from nowhere in particular.

From being pushed out of their burning apartment building by an invisible spirit to being totally unharmed in a car accident, the Becks' soon discover that anything is possible.

Expecting Adam is a wonderful, witty memoir that proves that whether you believe in angels or not, miracles do happen. This book will enlighten its readers, and certainly keep them intrigued with a few laughs thrown in along the way. Martha and her family's experience with Adam is a truly remarkable and emotional journey. Expecting Adam is sure to inspire everyone who reads it.