Book Review: Those Three Words

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This is a review of the book “Three Little Words,” by Christine Bauer. It’s about how three little words can alter a woman’s life.

Amazon Blurb:

“You are pregnant.”

Those three words uttered together pack a powerful emotional punch. For many women, hearing them elicits tremendous joy and excitement. They are the start of a dream come true. But those same words, when said together, also cause the opposite reaction — one of panic and despair.

The first time Chris Bauer heard those words, she was just eighteen years old, a few weeks into her freshman year of college. She was devastated. She was not ready to be a mother, and she had an agonizing decision to make.

“Those Three Words” takes readers along on Chris’s emotional journey through the power and importance of choice and the deep bond of maternal love. It is a bittersweet book full of heartache and joy, and a powerful testament to love in all its forms.

Book Summary:

A young woman who has just started her first year of college gets quite a surprise. She learns she is pregnant shortly after classes begin.

She has a choice to make: Have the child. Have an abortion. Give the child up for adoption. Christine mulls over all three options. Part of her wants to make each choice.

She decides that she cannot bear to have an abortion. But she knows she isn’t ready to become a mother. So that leaves one choice. Give up her child.

You will laugh, and you will cry as Christine tells her story. It is poignant and brings to light the harrowing decision a woman must make when she’s unexpectedly pregnant. But she’s not in a place in life where she is prepared to become a mother.

My Review:

I have been in Christine’s shoes. It was when I was 17. I kept my daughter, but it was tough. At the time, I was alone and didn’t marry until she was three. I went to college, worked, and took care of a baby. I think back now, and I don’t know how I did it.

Christine was very mature in her decision, putting her child’s life first.

This story was an emotional read. I know it was hard to write, and that she probably had myriad emotions swirling in her head throughout the writing of this book.

She did the best she could and was rewarded with a relationship with her daughter once her daughter became an adult.

I believe everyone involved won in this case. The book is full of beautiful and insightful writing. I want to read more by this author.

About The Author:

Christine (Chris) Bauer was born and raised in the small town of Mitchell, South Dakota. She feels blessed to have grown up in a place and time when childhood was carefree. It was a time when kids left the house in the morning and returned in the evening. And in between, children 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 that saved the world through groundbreaking journalism.

Soul-searching and a 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

Her greatest achievement and most profound joy are being the mother of three kind-hearted children and one beautiful, 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 grand dogs.

She admits there were moments in the motherhood journey where she preferred the canines. Chris resides in the Minneapolis area. “Those Three Words” is her first book, and I’d be delighted to read more books by this author.