I read it on CP but don't recall who posted it - adapting your life around a baby is the easy part. Adapting and understanding your wife becoming a mother is the difficult part.
This is so true. The baby is quite easy. adjusting your life around your wife becoming a mother is the hardest. Things that were laughable to you become that things that are punishable. The list goes on. That is the biggest change.
My advice. Your baby is coming into your life, you are not coming into theirs. Don't become those ridiculous parents that unplug the phones when the baby sleeps. Turn on a vacuum when the kid is sleeping next to you. don't coddle it. Put the kid down and do the dishes. If you smother it they will turn into a socially inept wannabe. LEt the kid make their own choices
Good luck. It is an amazing event in your life.
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