The first moment a woman learns she is pregnant can be the most dramatic and very personal emotion she will ever feel. Here it is right before her.... she knows this is a life-changing fork in the road. There is a sudden awareness that the way forward will be different and unknown. Her future seems all mixed up with awesome feelings of inner joy, then questions of safety and mortality. She may know fear and helplessness. One thing for sure.. right before her is the knowledge of final inevitability...that's it! She is knocked up!



"Knocked up" is a delightful collection of many exciting stories that begin at this moment of truth. When it happens in a country that is foreign to a woman and her family, they may lose the homefield advantage! Usually, everything is hugely magnified and more fearfully awesome than anyone can imagine. Each chapter in "Knocked up" is a new story that keeps us deeply involved as we eagerly read what happens next. We learn how different societies over the globe cope with birthing and how they can frantically strive to avoid catastrophe! Sometimes we actually feel what the writer is recalling about the whole experience as in the chapter about the missionary family in wild West Africa! (Baby in Benin) What a nail biting experience they had. This book is very powerful and well worth reading....it is a perfect gift for every mother, everywhere! Five, no ten, stars!