Greg and Lisa Popcak—popular Catholic authors, radio hosts, and marriage and family experts—present this unique guide to caring for one’s baby, self, marriage, and spiritual life in the first three years of parenthood. In Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood, Greg and Lisa Popcak lend readers the benefit of their twenty-five years’ experience in parenting and marriage and family counseling to help them navigate the earliest years of parenthood. They recommend rituals, routines, and tips on how to manage feeding, fatigue, and finances and how also to prioritize marital bonding and faith life, suggesting that setting the pattern early will pay dividends later. The Popcaks coach Catholic couples as they become first-time parents as they adjust to their new identities and help them face the inevitable challenges of parenthood with ideas for bonding with babies and getting sufficient sleep and nutrition—all while seeing these everyday experiences through the lens of Catholic teaching on the purpose of family life.

First Comes Baby… An uplifting new tale celebrating Mothers in a Million. Meg has always dreamed of having the perfect family, and when she learns her baby window is closing there's only one person who can help.… Ben has been Meg's best friend since childhood. Their relationship is strictly platonic—except for that one unforgettable kiss. Helping her to become a mother is the easiest decision Ben has ever made. Only, soon he wants to be more than just their baby's "uncle." Can he convince Meg that he's ready to do the unthinkable and settle down to be a real father? Reader Favorite—The Loner's Guarded Heart When Josie arrives in Australia, she is intrigued by Kent, her only neighbor for miles. Can she break the iron padlock around his heart?

Bestselling horror novelist Jamis Quinn hasn't written a word since Natalie Steeger moved in next door. Mirabelle Island has been his peaceful refuge for the past four years. Now he can't concentrate. Not with that sexy, Goody Two-shoes running a summer camp for disadvantaged kids giving him the wrong kind of ideas. Natalie always pictured hermits as grouchy old geezers. Her famous hermit neighbor has grouchy down pat. He's also got tall, dark and handsome going on. The No Trespassing signs Jamis hangs on his property are a joke. But the one on his heart is a little harder to ignore. Looks as though she'll have to up her game to get past it.

Answers children's questions about what new babies look like, what they do and don't do, and what having one around the house will really be like.

Her to-do list was slightly out of order in New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer's second book in the Wild Rose Sisters miniseries! “Will you marry me?” When Josie LeClaire went into labor alone on her farm, the single almost-mother had no one to turn to but her neighbor, Miles Halstead. Fortunately, the widowed single father was more than up to the task. And as he found himself unable to stay away from the lovely Josie—and her adorable newborn son—he realized he wanted her in his life as more than a friend. Josie treasured what Miles had already come to mean to her and her baby. So when he uttered those four words, of course she said yes. Even if he couldn’t say the three words she really wanted to hear… From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Wild Rose Sisters Book 1: The Father of Her Sons Book 2: First Comes Baby...

Laurel Woodall dreams of having a baby. But she can't let herself fall in love and will never again let a man in her life.— Without a husband or a lover Caleb Manes thinks Laurel is his future. When he hears she wants to have a baby on her own, he volunteers to be the father. Making a baby in this unconventional manner isn't the best way to further a relationship with Laurel, but it might lead to something more. Now he just has to convince her that this is what best friends are for.— 9 Months Later It's not what they're expecting.

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