064 | Are You Ready for This Baby?

Hey Fellow Dads,

How can you prepare to be a father to a new baby? What do your wife and older children need before and after the birth? Is there a book that could help you prepare to be a new dad? And does the Bible say anything about this? Join us for today’s podcast and find out!

—Nathan

Scriptures

📖 Ephesians 5:25 📖 1 Peter 3:7 📖 Galatians 3:26 📖 Psalm 119:105 📖 Psalm 18:6 📖 Hebrews 12:2

Suggestions to Get Ready for a New Baby

1. Love your wife intentionally in the months before and after birth.
2. Listen to her needs and feelings.
3. Learn all you can about your baby’s needs in advance.
4. Continue to love and lead the rest of your family.
5. Look to God on behalf of your entire family.

Link

Episode 28—Keep Daddy (& Mommy) Times

Recommended Reading

📚 Congratulations, You’re Gonna Be a Dad! What’s Ahead from A to Z for First-Time Fathers, by Paul and Pam Pettit.

Here’s what I like about this book and why I’d get it for a first-time dad:

1. It’s written in a conversational, easy-to-read style.
2. It’s designed to be picked up and used as a reference as needed, not as a sit-down-and-read-through-in-its-entirety volume.
3. It contains well over 100 topics, arranged alphabetically.
4. It is written in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way, so that what husbands need to know is made clear, all in a very honoring, respectful manner.
5. It closes with a short section called “The Story of a Father and a Son”—the good news of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son, and how God solved our sin problem in Christ.

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