Strongly recommend that you and your spouse (hope you have one, this is hard to do alone) do night duty on alternate days. You'll get a full night's sleep every

Strongly recommend that you and your spouse (hope you have one, this is hard to do alone) do night duty on alternate days. You'll get a full night's sleep every other day. It's essential. Enjoy these first few weeks and months. Take all the parental leave you can. Maximize the amount of time you spend holding, playing with, and talking to the child. Do it for you, because you will always remember these days. Do it for the child, because their brain is developing very, very rapidly at this time, even if you don't see much evidence of it. The time you spend with your child now will have benefits for the rest of his or her life. (You won't have time to read books, but if you do have a look at "What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life".) A few days from now, programming will seem a lot less important.