Ok the first major stress I have encountered is what to buy to cart the baby around. The biggest challenge is choice and I feel it's going to be like this all of the time.
So you can get a pram but this only last up to 9 months, you can get pushchairs for after the pram is redundant or you can get a travel system which transforms into both. This ease of purchasing one item for both comes at a cost and your wife will instantly choose this and dismiss any other option. My advise here is go with it and choose a travel system as it is inevitable.
You think once you have decided to go with the travel system (and you will) it would be easy but then the battle begins between you (cheaper the better) and your wife (most expensive the better). After several weekends going between mother care and mammas and papas and almost knowing the staff on a first name basis my advise would be decide what you want in a system. For us it was that my wife could easily operate the travel system (put up and down, mobility, and easily change the parts). We ended up choosing the Greco Evo from mother care as the one hand fold facility is excellent and you can rotate it on the spot. Second was the zoom system from mammas and papaya in the sale but my wife spent 15 minutes trying to fold it down and failed.
I also have now come to terms with the fact this baby is going to cost allot of money, but I am also starting to not care as I can't wait for it to be in my life and I think this realisation is important and will help me through what's to come.
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