For the first 6-9 months: 1. Get ready to survive sleepless nights and days and forget about your comfort. It’ll be like a full time job 24x7. 2. Get ready to

For the first 6-9 months: 1. Get ready to survive sleepless nights and days and forget about your comfort. It’ll be like a full time job 24x7. 2. Get ready to reach unimaginable before zen master levels of acceptance, patience and emotional stability towards your baby and your wife (she’d better do the same). 3. Get ready to constantly have not enough hours each day to handle all the planned matters, and not enough time for yourself. 4. Get prepared to go to sleep early and to wake up much earlier. 5. Learn how to “train” a baby to follow regular sleep patterns and rituals. This will save you a lot of time and nerves. 6. Buy a good and big enough playpen to afford some relatively free time during the day and not worry about baby safety each second. 7. In doubts, follow your instincts as long as you come from love and good intentions for the baby (you probably are if you ask the question). Rather than some books, gurus, your parents or even HN :) Parents (especially mother) have unique sophisticated connection with their newborn on many levels. Nobody in the world can know better what exactly your baby in each moment needs. Tune yourself to it. After ~ 9 months you’ll feel some relief and should become an expert in your baby, so no more advice needed.