Congrats! I can tell you my experience. The first 1 or 2 months are hell. If possible, take off the entire first month. "sleep deprivation" doesn't describe e

Congrats! I can tell you my experience. The first 1 or 2 months are hell. If possible, take off the entire first month. "sleep deprivation" doesn't describe enough how things work. The first week we slept 2 hours IN TOTAL. Of course our first kid was particularly bad, the second one we were trained, so we actually started sleeping 8 hours starting from second day (baby slept in bed with us, so "waking up" for feeding, is not very impactful). After the second month, depending how organized you are, it feels quite relaxing! Baby sleeps most of the time (she slept between my legs while I played videogames), of course every child is different, but you have free time. After that, your free time will slowly drop to very little, until you get it back when they go to school. I want to underline the point that aside from the first 2 months, which are extraordinarily, nature gives you time to adjust to a gradual reduction of your free time, so it won't feel that bad. For learning, I used to be like you, now I still read about coding, but a lot less. It might be because of my work though, I'm learning a lot there, I don't feel the need as much as before. Either way if I have free time, I try to use it for myself. I need to cultivate my hobbies a bit and I really miss those if I don't find an hour or two throughout the week. That's it. Sounds painful, but as I said, nature gives you gradual adjustment. You learn a lot of skills useful when managing other people, by being a parent!