re: Baby due next summer. Any tips or knowledge that can be passed on?

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In you breast feed, once the kid goes from the tap to the bottle, you do the last feeding before bed and the first in the morning and let your wife go to bed early and sleep in. Then your wife wakes up and do the middle of the night feeding (since she has to wake up and pump anyway). You get some solid sleep at night, and your wife has minimal interruption.

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Figuring out sleep schedules was critical for us.

At the beginning, I would get up in the middle of the night "to help". It just led to us being gassed all the time.

We finally settled on wife on night duty (say midnight to 6), and I SLEPT in another part of the house. She would usually nap when the baby napped during the day. And we would would eat dinner around 5-6 and I had the baby from 6 until baby was done with her last feeding, and my wife SLEPT from 5 to midnight.

The change in quality of life when we could both get a solid 6 hours of sleep was a life changer.

I still helped get everything set up that my wife needed - but if baby cries during "my" sleep time, you handle it (and vice versa).