Christine Bauer’s revealing memoir begins when she hears those three words (“You are pregnant”) and faces an unplanned pregnancy, and takes readers through her open adoption decision, and the ensuing three decades as a birth mother and mother. In this excerpt, Bauer relates the complicated emotions that accompanied her second pregnancy, 11 years after placing her daughter for adoption, and the birth of her oldest son.
Christine Bauer
Christine Bauer is the author of Those Three Words: A Birth Mother's Story of Choice, Chance, and Motherhood. She is first and foremost a proud mother and grandmother, and also a writer and marketing professional living in Minneapolis.