Oh it is hard work but those first few months especially with your first are brilliant. Lovely walks with the pram showing the baby off and with our Indian summers you should have lovely weather well into September. People will smile at you and ask you about your baby you will talk to strangers who before you had a child would just be another face in the crowd. You will smile knowingly at other mothers and they will smile back like you've been let into a special club.
With your first you can sleep when they sleep, you're allowed! You will have endless days with just you and your newborn when you can spend time just smelling them.
Then it will be your baby's first Christmas and they won't remember anything about it but you will. Christmas is like when you were a child again, something to get excited about.
Yes you and your dh may snap at each other occasionally because you are both tired BUT you will also both look at this being that only the two of you have made. You will pick out recognisable features and this will bring you closer knowing that only you two in the whole world could make this baby who they are, what they look like and what they will become.