Outstanding advice Sabby, the one thing that you forget to tell mom is that baby responds to her emotions.

It's still early and hopefully hubby's helping out as much as he can. I slept with my kids, I know that's not always the popular choice, but to this day if I'm feeling under the weather and haven't slept for a while I'll have one of the kids (now all teens and they're out the door as soon as I'm out) come in and watch TV and hearing them breathe will put me right to sleep.

Later a night-time routine will help, bath, feeding, rocking, sleep.