A Journey To The Son

The true-life tale of a "motherless daughter's" extraordinarily bumpy road to motherhood, Lauren Braddock Havey's memoir, A Journey to the Son (Two Harbors Press; October 2009), follows Lauren and her husband Jim as they make the brave decision to go through the in vitro process and the white-knuckle journey that ensues. Readers will be touched and united by her experience of what is a decidedly challenging journey, one that is almost tragically derailed (by an amniotic fluid embolism, an extremely rare and most-often fatal obstetric emergency), but which ends happily and triumphantly a year after the baby's birth. A Journey to the Son transcends the genre of reproduction literature.

Lauren’s engaging wit and honesty pulls readers in, making her story more than a memoir of fertility treatments, complications, and trauma—Lauren’s story is a celebration of life. A Journey to the Son is a masterful memoir of self-discovery and the power of family.