# Jones & Daughter

> Jones & Daughter is a mother-and-daughter publishing and communications partnership associated with pregnancy expert Sandy Jones and her daughter and co-author Marcie Jones Brennan. From Brevard, North Carolina, the firm packaged research on pregnancy, childbirth, newborn care, sleep, feeding, and baby products into books, web content, consulting, and a short-lived maternity-clothing brand. Its clearest calling card is the Great Expectations series: practical, heavily indexed reference works built for parents who want both quick answers and the reasoning behind them.

- **Founded:** 2005
- **Headquarters:** Brevard, United States
- **Founders:** Sandy Jones (Partner, author and pregnancy expert), Marcie Jones Brennan (Partner and co-author)
- **Products:** Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth, Great Expectations Pregnancy Journal & Planner, Great Expectations: Baby's First Year, Great Expectations: Best Baby Gear, Great Expectations: Baby Sleep Guide
- **Notable:** Built a Great Expectations pregnancy reference spanning more than 1,000 topics and 704 pages in its current digital listing., Extended the Great Expectations line across pregnancy, planning, a baby's first year, sleep, feeding, gear, breastfeeding, and toddler development., Sandy Jones authored or co-authored roughly a dozen books beginning in 1976 and published more than 200 articles on parenting and consumer issues.

## Products & services

- **Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth** — A comprehensive pregnancy reference covering week-by-week development, maternal health, birth choices, newborn care, baby products, and a plain-language pregnancy dictionary.
- **Great Expectations Pregnancy Journal & Planner** — A companion planning and record-keeping book co-authored by Marcie Jones and Sandy Jones.
- **Great Expectations: Baby's First Year** — A month-by-month guide to infant development, nutrition, medical care, and parenting skills.
- **Great Expectations: Best Baby Gear** — Research-led guidance for choosing safer and more useful car seats, cribs, carriers, diapers, clothing, and other baby products.
- **Great Expectations: Baby Sleep Guide** — A practical guide to infant sleep patterns, soothing, routines, and common sleep difficulties.
- **Great Expectations: The Toddler Years** — A guide to development, health care, and educational activities for children ages one to three.
- **Happy Healthy Pregnancy web content** — Pregnancy and baby-care information delivered through a domain tied publicly to Jones & Daughter and to the Huggies consumer-information network.
- **Pregnancy and parenting editorial consulting** — Expert writing, research, product evaluation, lectures, and communications work for publishers, professionals, and consumer audiences.
- **Sandy & Marcie's Great Expectations Maternity** — A maternity-clothing mark covering dresses, tops, pants, hosiery, support bands, sleepwear, lingerie, and bras; first used in commerce in 2014 and later cancelled.

## Achievements

- Built a Great Expectations pregnancy reference spanning more than 1,000 topics and 704 pages in its current digital listing.
- Extended the Great Expectations line across pregnancy, planning, a baby's first year, sleep, feeding, gear, breastfeeding, and toddler development.
- Sandy Jones authored or co-authored roughly a dozen books beginning in 1976 and published more than 200 articles on parenting and consumer issues.
- Sandy Jones contributed to seven editions of Consumer Reports' baby-product guide.
- The flagship reference was recommended in The Journal of Perinatal Education as a helpful resource for childbirth educators and parents.
- The Great Expectations Maternity trademark was registered in 2016 after first commercial use in 2014.

## Latest updates

- **2023-04** — The Sandy & Marcie's Great Expectations Maternity trademark was cancelled under Section 8.
- **2026-09** — The digital edition of Great Expectations: Your All-In-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth remains listed on Apple Books at $7.99.

## Links

- Website: https://happyhealthypregnancy.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/jones-&-daughter

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Last updated: 2026-09-22