Having a baby soon? 3 things I learned that can help you

1. Split up the nights with your wife. Go in shifts. Don't put the baby in your room because you will both be up all night. This will depend on how much maternity/paternity leave you get, but if you can arrange it to where one of you is sleeping and the other is taking care of the baby, you will both be much more refreshed and you will find yourself doing a better job as a parent.

2. Get your wife a breast pump. Her milk will come in around the 4th day after birth, so until then the baby will have to breastfeed the ole fashioned way, limiting your wife to less than 2 hours of sleep at a time. But just get through those days, and then pump away. Each time after she pumps, store it in the fridge and you can warm up the bottle when it's your turn instead of waking up an angry mama every 2 hours. Eventually she'll pump more than the baby needs, so you'll have a fridge/freezer full of the stuff. That way the baby can still have breastmilk several weeks after she's stopped pumping.

3. As you're going through it, time seems to go very slow, but then when they reach 2 or 3 years old it seems like it flew by. Enjoy every second of every stage they go through. Make every day count.