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 Bring earplugs. Wards are noisy, and you can use them when your partner has the baby to get some uninterrupted sleep.

 Ask for what you need, no matter how frantic, brusque or irritated the midwives seem.

 Investigate the possibility of a single room: it costs anything from £30-£500 depending on your hospital, but having one means you get peace and quiet–and your partner can stay too.

 Prepare yourself to be really assertive when you need help from the midwife–at the very least with establishing feeding or if you think something may be wrong.

 Work out in advance who will visit you in hospital. You may not feel like greeting six of your work colleagues after a forty-eight-hour labour when you are attempting your first nappy change.

Dads, meanwhile, are left in an elated, buzzing state of limbo–and probably exhaustion. The really key thing to do, if you possibly can, is wind down a bit.