About the Authors

“We love our husbands, and they love us. Why on earth did we find ourselves so often at odds after the babies came home? Our pre-baby marriages were really good, maybe even great. So why weren’t we talking the way we used to? Why were we bickering? Why were we infuriated by our husbands’ inability to find the beakers? Why were our husbands distraught that our enthusiasm for sex had dwindled to “folding the washing” levels? Were we normal? Or was something seriously wrong?”

Stacie, Cathy and Julia (from Babyproofing Your Marriage)

Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone are three wives, mothers and good friends, all muddling through the early parenting years together, who couldn’t find 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.

Stacie worked at Dell, Inc. and co-founded a high tech company before becoming a full-time mother. Cathy, who is from Dublin, Ireland, is a lawyer who now works as a management consultant. Julia is a former product manager in the educational services field also turned stay-at-home mom.

Among them, they have seven kids, the oldest of whom just started primary school. They each had a second (or third) baby while they wrote this book. They don’t recommend combining the two experiences.