Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful time nonetheless dominated by a crucial and terribly awkward question—which of her ex-boyfriends is the father? Mark Darcy: honorable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or the incorrigible Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notorious ladies’ man?

In this page-turning tale of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget navigates a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance.


在尚未為人母親、踏入婚姻之前，隨著生理時鐘的警訊越來越強，布芮婕卻在最後一刻發現自己竟然懷孕了，喜悅的同時卻被一個極為重要且尷尬的問題困擾著：到底哪一任前男友才是小孩的父親？是那位受人尊敬、事業有成、聲名遠播的人權律師馬克．達西嗎？或是那位囂張跋扈的丹尼爾．克利佛呢？丹尼爾是個有魅力、幽默機智卻又出了名喜歡跟女人湊在一起的人。

這本令人愛不釋手的書中談及女性面對最後生育期限的恐慌、身為人母的幸福，以及她們在社會上、事業上、科技上、廚藝上與生產時混亂。布芮婕懷孕期間經歷了乳酪馬鈴薯、自信過頭的新手媽媽所提供的古怪建議、超音波掃描時的混亂情形及新手媽媽課程，當然也有充滿歡笑與浪漫的時刻。