Author: Christine Bauer
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Publication date: 15th May 2018
Pages: 256
Format Read: Kindle Edition
Source: Courtesy of Book Publicity Services
There are three words that, when uttered together, make dreams
come true for millions of women. For millions more, those same words can
shatter their dreams. "You are pregnant."
Almost half of all pregnancies in the United States — some 3.1
million each year —are unintended. Among unmarried women in their 20s, seven
out of 10 pregnancies are unplanned.
Author Christine Bauer’s memoir Those Three Words: A
birthmother’s story of choice, chance and motherhood takes a deep dive
into the emotions of facing an unplanned pregnancy at the tender age of 18.
Those Three Words takes readers along on the journey
of weighing options, agonizing over a decision, and ultimately deciding to let
another family adopt and raise her baby. This story also looks at how
placing a child for adoption affected the rest of her life, especially when she
became the mother of two boys. Those
Three Words touches on the controversial topics of abortion and adoption,
birth control, and women’s rights.
This story will resonate with millions of readers because women
know and understand the joy and pain of pregnancy and motherhood, love and
loss, and the power of family and parental love.
Christine
Bauer’s story starts at the age of nineteen. She has her life together after a
tumultuous few years of rebellion and has left home to attend college. Life is
good; until she finds out she is pregnant.
Christine
spirals into depression and suicide looks like the only way out for her.
Thoughts of her close-knit family pull her out of this dark cloud and
thankfully her suicidal thoughts are pushed to the background.
I felt
sad that Christine had no-one to sit down with, a professional, to discuss
options calmly without all the scaremongering. The whole process from the
pregnancy confirmation was so badly handled.
I can
imagine it would be difficult to write a memoir, to bare your soul to all.
Christine’s writing is candid and emotional without being dramatic.
The
story is not only about Christine’s decision concerning her unplanned pregnancy
but also her life going forward and how that decision impacted on everything
she did.
I was
aghast at her drinking and smoking but Christine writes with honesty about many
of her thoughts and actions which highlight her immaturity at the time.
Family
is the underlying strength behind Christine’s memoir and she shows the reader
that family comes in all shapes and sizes.
Content:
talk of suicide, abortion, minimal coarse language.
If you
are experiencing bouts of depression or suicidal thoughts there are many
organisations that are there to listen and help.
Australia:
https://www.lifeline.org.au/
https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/
www.beyondblue.org.au/get+support
UK:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/suicide/
www.supportline.org.uk/problems/suicide.php
USA:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
http://suicidehotlines.com/national.html
My Rating 4/5 📘📘📘📘
Christine (Chris) Bauer was born and raised in the big small town
of Mitchell, South Dakota. She feels blessed to have grown up in a place and
time when childhood was carefree, when kids left the house in morning and
returned in the evening, and in between rode bikes, built forts, and played
baseball and Barbies. While she loved her hometown, Chris was eager to move on
to new adventures after graduating high school.
Chris attended Mankato State University in Minnesota, majoring in
Mass Communications. Her dream was to one day be part of a Woodward and
Bernstein-type team who saved the world through ground-breaking
journalism. Soul searching and need for
employment led her to a gratifying career in corporate communications, public
relations and marketing. Chris has loved reading and writing for as long as she
can remember.
Her greatest achievement and most profound joy is being the mother
of three kind-hearted children and one beautiful and spirited grandchild. In
addition to being a mom and grandma of humans, Chris is also the proud mom to
one very spoiled dog and two equally spoiled granddogs. She admits there were
moments in the motherhood journey where she preferred the canines.
She resides in the Minneapolis area. While her nest is nearly
empty now, she loves that the flock returns regularly for food and shelter.
Those Three Words is her first book. It is currently available for sale. To
learn more, go to https://www.authorcbauer.com/
