I am a new father

Congratulations to you and your wife Enjoy your child and help out where needed it can be tough on both parents as fathers can sometimes feel leftout and ask what should I do. Just Love your child and spend quality time with both your child and partner.. All the best to your family your child will grow before your eyes it is unbeleivable when you think about it..... Take lots of Pics......

Congratulations! Do you have a boy or girl? I think the best thing you can do is help your partner as much as possible with the baby, be supportive, as a new baby is overwhelming for all new parents! I think its also important to differentiate between being parents and being partners, make time for just the two of you. I am a mum of 3 girls. I wish you all the best of luck for the future.

congrats sing to your baby try to with him or her as much as possbile both quality and quantity of time matter be very supportive to your wife as she will be on the edge everytime as baby always makes life too busy

I did that almost five years ago. The first thing is be there to try to take care your child when you are home. That means changing dirty diapers. I know it turned my stomach inside out, but it means alot to your wife to do this. Help you wife to keep your child on a schedule. The night your child sleeps through the night might be scary, but it will help you all get along a lot better. there are days nothing seems to go right. Dont blow up in front of your child. Trust me they remember this things. Just go outside and let it out. then go back in. Finally remember that you are not alone. And here is a high five for us first time fathers. We may not know what we are doing but we try our best.

Well as someone that was a "new mother" not too long ago. Please, please, please do not take your babys mother for granted and sort of forget her. One thing I found with my son, he loves and did right at the beginning, loved to lay on his father. He seemed to like male voices soothing him when he was fussy those first few days too. And when you want to get some sleep, if you have a fussy baby, swaddling is awesome. If you cant perfect it with a blanket like they do at the hospital, walmart and meijers sell these little swaddler blanket things with velcro that you just stick em in and wrap. They work great. That was the only way I could get my baby to go to sleep in the beginning. Honestly now that I am thinking about those first few weeks, lots of the details are lost in a blur of confusion and sleepiness. LOL. Good luck. It is a precious wonderful thing. (Even if it is more exhausting than any paying job you will ever have)

Congrats!! I think the most important thing you can do is be supportive - help your wife to burp baby and put baby to sleep, let your wife have some rest. May be you two should consider purchase food to eat, so you don't need to worry about cooking and cleaning for the 1st month.