This beautiful foreword about Mommy & Baby's Journal was written by Nancy Campbell from Above Rubies. "What a beautiful treasure you hold in your hands. Yes, I am talking about this book, although your own precious baby is the greatest treasure of all. Your heart will stir with emotions of love and joy as you admire the beautiful pictures and read the prayers and thoughts about your baby growing in your womb. Truly, there is no greater feat you can do as a woman than to cooperate with God to...

Allyson Koekhoven lives in a small village on the East Coast of South Africa with her husband and two boisterous dogs. She has two grown-up daughters, both in the medical field, and one grandson. She is a business-to-business content creator by day and a novelist after hours. What inspired you to write stories? I’ve always loved stories—both reading them and imagining my own. I announced to my parents, when I was just six years old, that I was going to write a novel one day. Sadly, my dad...

Have you ever felt God prompting you to do something? I have. A few heartbeats ago , while sitting under a mosquito net in China, I felt God leading me to write ~ so I did ~ non-stop ~ from morning to night. Two years later I put all the scribbly notes onto my iPad at a guest house in Haifa, Israel. It took several years for God to prepare my heart to write the story. It is a story of a lonely, abandoned little girl and God's amazing compassion, grace, mercy, and love. So, once upon a time,...