What is the theme in Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck?

Children with birth defects is another theme in this story. Ms. Beck and her husband were both Ph.D. candidates at Harvard at the time they became pregnant with Adam. The people at Harvard had taught Ms. Beck and her husband to think in a certain way, leaving them often feeling like phonies, like they truly did not belong in this world of the highly educated and the highly successful. For this reason, Ms. Beck attempted to hide her pregnancy for the first few months because she was afraid of what her colleagues would have to say about such a situation. In fact, when John missed a single class two years prior because he was attending his daughter's birth, he was openly ridiculed and berated by his class professor.