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Not getting enough good quality sleep with a newborn baby in the house is a real problem. But what is the solution, though? Hiring a full-time stay-at-home nanny seems the only way both parents can get enough sleep for the first several months, but there are many reasons why one wouldn't want to do that. Does anyone have any advice?

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If you're the father, sleep on the couch (or buy another bed). Then when you're more refreshed, you can try and help out the mother (I'm assuming breast feeding here).

If you're the mother, try really hard to get some kind of daily cycle induced in the baby. So minimize breastfeeding, chatting, other activity at night.

YMMV. Also you need to accept that you're going to be lacking some amount of sleep for years.

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