Similar to you, I'm a contracting dev working mostly from home, father to a 10 week old, here's some tips I found useful: - getting into a routine is as import

Similar to you, I'm a contracting dev working mostly from home, father to a 10 week old, here's some tips I found useful: - getting into a routine is as important for the parents as the child, so after a few weeks try and get some sort of rota for the chores etc, and when the baby feeds. If your wife's breast feeding get her to express from 2 months onwards and you can then get 'shifts' where she does breast feeding during the nights and you take the early morning ones feeding via expressed bottle. You can plan extended coding sessions between these feeds without feeling guilty - look into making batches of food you can freeze and heat up - stuff lie, pies, lasagne etc and load them up with veggies, you can then just zap them in microwave as you'll probably not have time for anything else, I made up a months worth of food. - be prepared for lots of visitors and make sure they're aware that when your in your office your not to be disturbed, I kept coming out to say hello and it's easy to lose a few hours a day that way - look into the baby Einstein DVDs - they're like baby crack and give you both 30 mins to jump in the shower/grab something to eat - swap the runs for walking the baby, I take mine for 3-4 mile walks after the morning and leave the wife to catch up on sleep.