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Saving Delaney is a 2016 memoir by American author Keston Ott-Dahl and her life partner Andrea Ott-Dahl, describing the events which occurred while they were surrogating after the baby was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in 2013. The memoir is described as a journey of self discovery. Plot summary: Saving Delaney, lesbian couple Keston and Andrea Ott-Dahl’s memoir depicts their seven month struggle attempting to get pregnant as surrogates for friends to finally becoming pregnant and the subsequent months which follow once the baby is prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

The memoir depicts Keston Ott-Dahl’s grief over her mothers recent death and her journey of self discovery when the baby the couple conceived was diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome, a disability which Ott-Dahl deeply feared. The book contains flashbacks to Ott-Dahls prior life occurrences that led her to make the decision to save and keep the baby they would name Delaney Skye and the backlash from family and friends the couple received afterward.