Sleep while you can. I've heard stories about newborns who sleep 8 hours at night, but I've never personally seen it. I hearken it to the yeti. The system th

Sleep while you can. I've heard stories about newborns who sleep 8 hours at night, but I've never personally seen it. I hearken it to the yeti. The system that worked best for sleep schedules for us was splitting duties. Mommy was on 'input', i.e., feedings, and I was on output. It gave Mommy a sense of relief (because she will almost certainly feel overburdened) for me to take the baby, even if just for a short time. Clean the house -- your wife will appreciate every single thing that she doesn't later have to do. If you cook, try to cook enough that there will be leftovers. Even better, if you can make any re-heatable meals that your wife can find and reheat during the day, that'll be gold. As for the actual child-rearing, the only advice I can think of particular to me that seems to have worked is that we never spoke 'baby-talk'. We always spoke in full English. Anecdotally, we believe that contributed to our daughter's ability to speak significantly younger than expected.