You know what, Fiona, your baby won't know what to do either! He won't have the first clue about how he likes to go to sleep, whether he likes to be burped during a feed or only after he's finished, if he likes having a bath or a shower, or if he likes being swaddled. Then just when he works it out he'll be 2 months old and he'll change his mind.

And you know what? You two (or three, if I include your husband in this) will work it out together. You'll probably listen to advice of others, accept some of it, try other parts, or reject some outright. You'll try stuff in the first week that is a hopeless failure, only to try it again in a few weeks and find it works a treat.

Your boy will take you to places you never knew existed - to a world where soap bubbles are more precious and exciting than diamonds and dirt is something that makes a thing more attractive; where a cry in the night will break your heart but the smile you see waiting for you will make it melt.

You are right in that you don't know how things will be, but that's only because it has the very real potential to be more wondrous than you can imagine