For Immediate Release
Sara Sgarlat, Publicity Director
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The book moms everywhere wish they’d read before they had a baby!
Here’s the REAL STORY of how babies turn their parents’ lives upside down! It describes the changes, joys, and tough challenges that a newborn brings to a marriage and to a parent’s sense of self, career, friendships, spiritual life, extended family, and sense of loving like no other love can.
Oh, Baby!: 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year by Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D., Susan M. Heim, and Jennifer L. Youngs reveals the real issues ahead for expectant and new parents, and gives experienced advice and practical action steps for developing new coping skills for successful parenting and partnering. The book has lots of stories of how other new parents overcame the challenges, and suggests discussion questions and communication strategies to head off marital conflicts so parents can not only survive, but even thrive during their baby’s first year. Oh, Baby! is unlike any other baby book, and makes a great gift for new or expectant parents.
The three authors bring a wealth of successful book selling and knowledge in this area. Pulitzer Prize nominated author Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D. has written 32 books translated into 24 languages, with sales totaling 3.5 million. They include the highly successful Tasteberries series from HCI, and Getting Back Together (Adams Media, 2006) and Woman-to-Woman Wisdom (Thomas Nelson, 2005). Susan M. Heim is a former Senior Editor at Health Communications where she edited the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series; and new mother Jennifer Leigh Youngs is the co-author of Amacom’s fall release Moments and Milestones: A Pregnancy Journal; Feeling Great, Looking Hot & Loving Yourself, and 10 self-help books in the popular Taste Berries for Teens series.
A huge percentage of couples separate, and it’s safe to say that most find their "marriage expectations" crashing down after the birth of a baby. Oh, Baby! won’t teach new parents how to change a diaper, but it could save their marriages by preparing them for 7 Ways a Baby Will Change [Their] Life the First Year.
• Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Bettie Youngs has written 32 books with sales
totaling 3.5 million
• A uniquely practical pregnancy and post-pregnancy book full of uplifting Chicken
Soup-type stories and constructive advice on how life really changes when Baby comes
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson
September 2006 * Parenting * ISBN 1-57174-503-3 * $15.95 * Trade paper