BEFORE the baby is born, TALK !!!!

OK, one thing I I remembered while I was posting the last paragraph on the last post:

BEFORE the baby is born, TALK to your wife about how you wish to take care of your baby
No matter how small the matter is, later it can be a battleground.

Things like:
- What time you think the baby should go to sleep.
- What time you think the baby should take his shower.
- Work an agreement on waking up in the night. Bilieve me, it is better than both fighting for the other to wake up with your baby crying in the background.
- Work an agreement on how to treat the baby when he cries (Some people think that is good for the baby to cry it out, and so they let the baby cry. Others think that they should go see what’s wrong with the baby the second he starts complaining).
- Talk about religion.
- Talk about schedules
- Talk about when to have a time out.
- Talk about visitors.
- Talk about the need (or not) to bring someone to help.

There are many other topics, and you should talk about as many as you can possibly think about.
Later on, it will be so much harder, and so much more aggravating, and the last thing you want is to try to work out your differences when the matter already happened and someone does something the other disapproves.