Julia Stone

Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill, and Julia Stone are three wives, mothers, and good friends, all muddling through the early parenting years together, who were looking for the humorous, down-to-earth book they needed to help them make sense of their post-baby married lives. They couldn’t find it, so they wrote the book they wanted to read: Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less, and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows. They have appeared on NBC’s Today, Fox News, iVillage Live, and AOL Coaches; been featured in Parade, Parenting, Baby Talk, and on over 50 national and local radio programs including Satellite Sisters and Martha Stewart Living Radio. Overseas they have appeared on the BBC, Sky News, and Canada AM. Cockrell, O’Neill, and Stone are available together or separately as speakers, and any one of them can address all of the topics above.

Babyproofing Your Marriage reveals both sides of the post-baby relationship divide, and offers simple but effective ways husbands and wives can bridge the gap and reconnect with one another – so that having children doesn’t mean sacrificing being a couple. Most importantly, Cockrell, O’Neill, and Stone offer hundreds of specific – and personally tested – methods couples can use to reignite a marriage on post-baby Auto-Pilot. From a Training Weekend for the husband who “just doesn’t get it” or views doing his fair share of the work as a favor to his wife; to stopping the game of Midnight Chicken most couples play to see who will get out of bed to tend to the crying baby; to numerous ways  to recalibrate that most combustible of all post-baby arguments – the dwindling sex life, Babyproofing Your Marriage is brimming with common sense and easy-to-implement advice that the authors (and their husbands) learned the hard way.

Stone is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MBA from the University of Texas. She is a former product manager in the educational services field turned stay-at-home mom. 

How to Babyproof Your Marriage: Learn to Laugh More, Argue Less and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows

Marriage as a Partnership: How to Achieve a Real Marital Partnership and Keep the Marriage (and the sex) Alive After the Kids Arrive

For Men: How and Why Men and Women React Differently to Parenthood. What Your Wife Really Wants You to Know About Marriage and Motherhood

For Women: How and Why Men and Women React Differently to Parenthood. What Your Husband Really Wants You to Know About Marriage and Fatherhood

How to Have it All: Balancing Work, Marriage and Motherhood

How to be a “Mom-preneur”: Successfully Combining Motherhood and Entrepreneurism

For Grandparents: What Your Kids Want You to Know, Including How to be Involved Without Stepping Over the Line