[TheRealGL]

Trust your partner knows what they are doing. Give input but step back on decision making. Your child is going to become your entire universe, and for the first 5 months (as fare as I know- I'm a new dad too), you and your partner are the only thing that matters to them.

Give them both lots of love, pull energy from seeing your baby's little features- their delicate little hands, wisps of hair, milk drunkness, chubby cheeks!

Get skin on skin contact as soon as you can, wrap your arms around your little one- you are their protector and nothing will hurt them with you around.

Be prepared for some dark thoughts; usually centred around something/somebody hurting or taking your child away. I think this is probably normal.

Give your partner support and put little things in the calendar each week- like a TV show the three of you can watch- its making the mundane special that will keep your morale up when you're operating on 3 hours sleep.