Strollers that can use a detachable car seat (ours is from Graco) are good, and I like the Baby Bjorn carrier. We had a fussy baby (now 13mo old, our first), a

Strollers that can use a detachable car seat (ours is from Graco) are good, and I like the Baby Bjorn carrier. We had a fussy baby (now 13mo old, our first), and white noise phone apps were incredibly helpful. You'd think that newborns would be sensitive to noise in a bad way, but loud noise instead helps them sleep and relax. Fisher Price swing/cradle was also amazing at calming him down. You can get diapers with a strip that changes color when they're wet, super useful. If your wife is planning to pump, the more expensive pumps can work around twice as fast as the cheap ones -- 15 mins several times a day is much more convenient than 30 mins several times a day. Oh yeah, one more thing that I didn't understand fully: due dates are really approximate. The standard deviation is 11 days or something. Having the baby arrive 3-4 weeks early would be totally unsurprising. I was lucky to be able to take two months completely off work when the baby arrived; I know that's a lot of privilege. So all I can tell you is that after about five weeks I started feeling like I could be a programmer again. :-)