Title |
Expecting Adam : : a true story of birth, rebirth, and everyday magic
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Names |
Beck, Martha Nibley.
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Book Number |
BR012196
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Braille
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Download Link |
Volume 1.
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Volume 2.
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Volume 3.
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Annotation |
While the author and her husband were Harvard graduate students, she became pregnant with their second child and learned he had Down syndrome. She describes the seemingly magical events that followed and the lessons she learned despite the difficulties. After Adam was born, it was "worth it, a thousand times over."
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Local Subject |
General Non-Fiction - GNF
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Learning Disability Interest - DIL
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Adult Book - AD
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Short Book - SH
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Disability Interest - DII
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Biography - Individuals w/ Disabilities - BID
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Biography & Autobiography - BIO
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Biography - Contemporary - BIC
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Audience Notes |
A
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LC Subject |
Pregnancy - Complications - Patients - Biography
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Fetus - Abnormalities - Patients - Biography
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Genetic disorders in pregnancy - Patients - Biography
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Parents of children with disabilities - Biography
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Parents of children with disabilities - Religious life
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Down syndrome - Patients - Family relationships
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Call Number |
362.19830092 B ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
1999
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1999 (CPH, transcribing agency. CPH, distributor.)
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Original Publication |
Transcription of: 1st ed. New York : Times Books, c1999.
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