The Christian Mama's Guide to Baby's First Year

Everything You Need to Know to Survive (and Love) Your First Year as a Mom

Erin MacPherson

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780849964329
• Print ISBN:
  9780849964749

An entertaining, practical guide for first-time mamas and those who need a baby refresher course. 

The new mom initiation ritual involves sleepless nights, an inexplicable obsession with baby booties, and more questions than answers. This take on everything baby offers new moms the Christian girlfriend advice she needs to feel confident in her new role, including: 

• getting into the motherhood groove
• breastfeeding advice
• suggestions for losing the baby weight—before your baby is no longer a baby
• time management tips that may just help you find time to do laundry—before you run out of clean underwear
• how you can manage to be a godly mother and a good wife on less than three hours of sleep a night

Easy-to-read and relatable, this been-there-done-that guide answers these questions and more with a dose of humor an a lot of grace so that new moms can become the moms that God intended them to be during their baby's first year. 

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Welcome to Club Mom
• One: Getting into the New Mama Groove: Surviving and Thriving as a New Mom
• Two: The Christian Mama’s Lying-In Period: Postpartum Healing, Emotions, Hormones, and More
• Three: Newborns 101: How to Care for Your Little Bundle
• Four: Lovin’ Your Lil’ Night Owl: How to Get Your Baby to Sleep
• Five: Breast Assured: How to Breast-Feed (and like It)
• Six: To the Bottle and beyond: The Nitty (and Hopefully Not Gritty) Details You Need to Know to Bottle-Feed
• Seven: Diapers and Wipers: Diapering Your Baby like a Pro
• Eight: Gearing up: Everything You Need (and Some Stuff You Don’t) for Baby
• Nine: Medical Helpline: An Invitation to Be a Fly on the Wall at the Pediatrician’s Office
• Ten: It’s Playtime: Having Fun with Your Baby
• Eleven: Out on the Town: Getting out of the House with Your Baby
• Twelve: Solid Advice: Feeding Your Baby Real Food
• Thirteen: Taking Care of You, You, You: Finding Time for You When the Baby Is Crying, “Me, Me, Me!”
• Fourteen: Baby Weight Boot Camp: Losing the Baby Weight . . . Eventually
• Fifteen: The Christian Daddy’s Guide to Babies: What Dads Need to Know about Babies
• Sixteen: The Help-Daddy-Bond Initiative: Getting Close—And Staying Close—To Daddy
• Epilogue: A Sappy Dissertation from a Toddler’s Mom
• About the Author
• Index