One Year to an Organized Life With Baby ─ From Pregnancy to Parenthood, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Ready for Baby and Keeping Your Family Organized

I can't believe I'm going to be a parent! How am I going to begin to prepare? Which baby gear essentials do we need to buy? What's the best way to set up a nursery? When do I tell the office? And how are we going to keep it all together after the baby is born?

Bringing a baby into the family is undeniably one of life's most momentous experiences, marked by expectation, joy, and hundreds of questions and tasks. What can you do during pregnancy to make life easier later? And just how do you care for baby when you're sleep deprived? Finally, professional organizer Regina Leeds and parenting expert Meagan Francis provide answers.

Packed with timelines, checklists, and tips, One Year to an Organized Life with Baby prioritizes everything you need to know in order to get your home, health, work, and life ready for a new baby, as well as strategies for keeping everything on track in the months after your child is born.

Whether you're expecting your first baby or your fourth, One Year to an Organized Life with Baby will eliminate stress from your daily routine so that you can fully enjoy the changing landscape of your life-and the newest member of your family.

Redina Leeds, named best organizer by Los Angeles magazine, has been a professional organizer for more than twenty years. She is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller One Year to an Organized Life. She lives in Toluca Lake, California.
Meagan Francis is a parenting writer and mother of five children. She contributes to numerous national magazines and Web sites, including Parenting, Parents, Fit Pregnancy, and American Baby. She lives in St. Joseph, Michigan.