BEWARE of month number 1 with the baby. It is impossible to comprehend until you have a baby, and month 1 (especially week 1) will require more time than you can imagine. I was in the midst of multiple all-nighters on an architecture project around the time of birth (though I took the first week off) and I will never hear the end of my inability to help as much as I should have when the wife was as thoroughly exhausted as me. Life changes totally once you have a child. Once you understand what it means to have a different life as a family (which took me about a year), it is really a great thing. The transition from romance to family, though, is not easy, but that is a completely different topic.