Oh, Baby!: 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year

Are you ever really prepared for your first child? Or even the second or third? Sure, you've got the nursery set up, the diapers bought, and the pediatrician selected, but you may be shocked, despite your best efforts, at how totally unprepared you are for parenthood!

Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change YOUR Life the First Year will provide you--the expectant or new parent--with the "real story" about the many surprising ways a new baby will turn your life upside-down. The joys will be plentiful--but so are the challenges! In fact, seven key areas of your life will be impacted--in both wonderful and overwhelming ways--when you have a baby. This book is realistic about how life is changed postbaby. It offers practical advice and sensitive know-how to help survive--and even thrive--in the first year.

"As a father of nineteen children, and senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, I know all about balancing the needs of a family with all the other demands of a busy life. The authors of Oh, Baby! perfectly capture the juggling act that parents struggle to perform when a child is added to the family." —Pat Williams, Senior Vice President of the NBA's Orlando Magic, author of How to Be Like Coach Wooden

"This book is a unique approach to helping new and expectant parents navigate through the peaks and valleys of early parenthood. It is a wonderful and necessary addition to the field of parenting and attachment." —Elise Edelson Katch, MEd, LCSW, author of The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce

"This beautiful book will help parents of young children grow in appreciation for the diligence of heart and plain old hands-on work required in doing the most important job in the world—raising God's children." —Donna Schuller, Crystal Cathedral Women's Ministries, co-author of Woman to Woman Wisdom

"Being a parent is a powerful experience, but we often don't anticipate the many ways it will change us. This book examines the real effects of having a child on parents' sense of 'self', concept of love, as well as personal and work goals." —Michael Popkin, PhD, author of Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting