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Knocked Up Abroad: Stories of pregnancy, birth, and raising a family in a foreign country Kindle Edition

by Lisa Ferland (Author), Olga Mecking (Author), Melinda Lipkin (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
This book is a delightful tour of the world through the eyes of people living in countries other than their native land. Without knowing the language, culture, or customs, having a baby abroad isn't as easy as you might expect.
Home is family and family is home.

Knocked Up Abroad is an anthology of 24 stories about the trials and joys experienced by 21 mothers and two dads who raised their families abroad. These life stories span several continents to highlight the infinite ways in which babies are welcomed into the world. Each story is as unique as the child being born. Their experiences range from spa-like treatments for postpartum women in Japan to insatiable pregnancy cravings in Seychelles to non-functioning toilets in West Africa.

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Lana Ankarcrona, Jannecke Balys, Erin Boeck Motum, Candice Cabutihan-Cipullo, Mirren Childs, Michelle Estekantchi, Ersatz Expat, Cathy Ferland, Lisa Ferland, Jonathan Ferland, Naomi Hattaway, Sherah Haustein, Katarina Holm-DiDio, Chantelle Howell, Demi Jones, Olga Mecking, Sarah Metzker Erdemir, Sarah Murdock, Penelope Stanley, Ember Swift, Sten-Ove Tullberg, Meika Weiss, Clara Wiggins, Jackie Wilson
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    337 pages
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0196SSHQK
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 25 Jan. 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.1 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 337 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997062410
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  1. Clara Wiggins

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    Clara Wiggins was born in Cuba to British diplomat parents and hasn't stopped travelling since. She's lived in eleven countries on five continents, and visited nearly 70. She will soon be on her way to country number twelve - South Africa.

    Along the way, she's picked up a husband and produced two daughters. She has also worked as a journalist, writer, diplomat, press officer, antenatal teacher, customer services advisor, coffee shop waitress and a school cook. Although the last one only lasted for a day.

    Until recently, there were two things on Clara's bucket list: publish a book and swim with whale sharks. With the publication of the Expat Partner's Survival Guide, only one thing remains - and she hopes to tick that one off in the next year or two.

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  3. Erin Boeck Motum

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    Erin Boeck Motum is a mother of twins who loves to read, edit, plan, travel and try to help make the world a better place. Having been an editor in her pre-children days, she was pleased to realise that, after a couple of years of being a stay-at-home mom (mum?), she could still (kind of) form coherent sentences. Erin is currently juggling looking after her twin daughters, writing children’s books featuring twins (with her first, “Bella and Drew Go to the Zoo,” being illustrated right now), editing for a communications agency, volunteering as a marketing professional for a new NGO that works with wounded soldiers in the country of Georgia, and writing about her experiences for blogs and books.

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    Lisa Ferland is a mother, award-winning author, and former epidemiologist who lives in Sweden with her family.

    When she's not picking blueberries with her kids or hiking through the forest with them, she's busy writing children's books and working with fellow authors. Her children's book, We Walk Through the Forest, won First Place at the 2022 Pencraft Awards and has been featured on nature trail Story Walks around the US.

    You can learn more about Lisa at lisaferland.com, or say hello if you see her on one of her many adventures!

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    Katarina Holm-Didio grew up in Finland but currently lives in New Jersey, US. She enjoys travel and exploring the diversity of her adopted home country and is an avid reader and film enthusiast. She writes about global leadership, cross-cultural matters, and living and working globally. Kat has published in The Wall Street Journal’s Expat blog, Trade Ready Canada, and Bloomberg BNA, and regularly contributes articles for Est Elle Norden/USA, a monthly magazine printed in Finland with a global reach.

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  • MISS K. HARRIS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2016
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    In the middle of reading this book and I absolutely love it
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  • Jan P.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2017
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    Found this fun in an unexpected way someone else's pregnancy and birth stories not a topic I would normally read about but found travelling the world with pregnant parents an interesting insight into modern systems
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  • Rachel Backstrom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2017
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    Great book
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  • Mark Howell
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2016
    A great read for anyone considering having or taking children abroad; or has had or lived with their children abroad.
    Actually though it’s just a good read full stop. There are 24 truly heartfelt stories of mamas (and two daddies) that I think you can really connect to aside from the living abroad side of it all.
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  • Amy Neuhedel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Expats, moms, doulas & midwives: Add to your cart!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2016
    As a global birth worker and a busy expat mom of three, this book resonated with me on many levels. The short stories make Knocked Up Abroad perfect for a busy mom. What a luxury to sit for 15 minutes on the couch at night and be swept away into a women's tale of her birthing year abroad. The stories are unique, just like each birth and each mothering journey truly are. You will giggle, feel sad, empathize and say, "WHAT?!" You may add a country to your "to live in" list or cross one off. If you have any interest in pregnancy, birth, parenting or living abroad, you'll enjoy this book.
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  • Naomi A. Hattaway
    5.0 out of 5 stars In a book that compiles those stories into a fun and easy read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2016
    This is an honest and real-life collection of stories and experiences from people who have never met, yet share many things in common, birthing and parenting while living life abroad being one of them. In a book that compiles those stories into a fun and easy read, yet in a meaningful and touching way, Lisa Ferland has captured the essence of parenting, the struggles, the joys and the confusion - with a twist of language barriers, uncomfortable surroundings and the like. I highly recommend this book!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2016
    Beautiful real life stories told from the heart. This book provides heartwarming insight into the challenges faced by expat mothers abroad.
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  • Clara Wiggins
    5.0 out of 5 stars Don't get knocked up abroad before reading this first!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2016
    Pregnancy, childbirth and parenting are hard enough when you are doing it in familiar territory, surrounded by friends and family. But for expats who chose to have their babies abroad, or take them back to live overseas with them, the experience can be in a different league altogether. Luckily here is a book with enough humour to pursuade you that as daunting a task as this may seem, being "knocked up abroad" can be just as exciting, fun and (yes!) humorous as it can be back in your home country. With more than 20 parents - mums and dads - telling their stories, the whole spectrum of childbirth is covered as well as much of the globe. It's a great read and much recommended for anyone considering taking that leap and getting up the duff in a foreign land.
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  • Sarah White
    5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for women all over the world!
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 February 2016
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    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!
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  • A. Simmer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Don't have to read it all in one go, but you'll want to return to it
    Reviewed in the United States on 3 February 2017
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    As a woman who is pregnant outside of her passport country, I enjoyed reading this book and learning about others' experiences. It inspired me to ask my husband questions about his country (where we live) and how some things are done (to the best of his knowledge as a childless male). The stories were all so different and interesting. There were stories here or there that I would have loved to share with friends--one of my male friends spent a year in Scandinavia with his wife and their daughter while his wife did research. He spent the time caring for his daughter, and I was wondering if his experiences were much like those of the story of the man who took paternity leave--but I felt uncomfortable recommending a whole book just for one chapter. It may just be a personal preference, but the title of the book was a little off-putting. Fortunately, most of the individual stories don't use that phrase and it's simply listed in the intro for each chapter to give you a bit of background about where each person came from and where they were doing the whole family thing at. It is, admittedly, the first book that I have managed to read in digital format although I feel I definitely would have preferred it in hard copy.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Babies, Doulas, Mothers in law, in Foreign Lands
    Reviewed in the United States on 7 February 2016
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    Not just for expectant parents, this book is just a delightful tour of the world, through the eyes of people living in countries other than their native land and having babies in a new and often, very foreign, country. The book is mostly told by women, but a couple of men contribute to these tales too.
    I'm an older woman, long finished with child bearing, but I found it a very compelling read. One of the most interesting aspects, to me, was that all the differences in prenatal care, delivery practices, and care of new babies -- and there are certainly differences! -- don't matter at all in the end, except as a good story. From Japan to Kenya, Australia to Sweden, and points in between, every midwife, doctor, physician's assistant, doula, mother and mother in law, and expectant parent, wants just one thing -- a healthy baby. The stories of how this magic happens are well told and simply fascinating.
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  • Kelley S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous, Engaging and Informative
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 March 2016
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    Knocked Up Abroad delivers an entertaining account and perspective on the challenges of navigating the cultural differences and healthcare systems expat women encounter giving birth around the world. The stories are both humorous and engaging and very well written.

    Being in the healthcare field, this was a very eye opening look at the different roles doctors, doulas and midwives play in healthcare models around the world. It's also a unique perspective of the cultural practices and customs that each of the writers faced during their pregnancies from limited ultrasounds to the customary "sitting the month" following birth.

    Really a must read not only for continuous laughs of Lucy's birth plan and Jonathan's "definitive guide to parental leave in Sweden" but also to gain better insight into advocating for yourself, your unborn child and what you want when it comes to delivering your baby no matter where you live in the world.
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  • Holly Roelse
    5.0 out of 5 stars A hilarious and heartfelt journey through life and around the world.
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2016
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    Hilarious and heartfelt. This book was the most enjoyable read I have come across in a long time. As a Texas mama living in Sweden with a two-year-old and baby to be, this book hit me on so many levels. It's wonderful to know there are so many people facing the same (often humorous) daily challenges and coming out the other side in one piece. Plus, I appreciated all the insightful advice the book sprinkled throughout. It's seriously a journey around the world and anyone with a sense of adventure will love this book--women and men alike. I can't wait to read the next installment when it is published!
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