Your partner should plan to take a week or two off after the baby arrives. That way, you'll both have time to bond with your newborn, and your partner can prepare dinner, change, bathe , and burp the baby, as well as take care of you. If that's not possible for whatever reason, see if a close relative can come and provide the same kind of care.
Dinner can provide a civilized break, and some order, in a newly chaotic world.
One idea making the rounds in baby showers these days is to form a postpartum dinner group. The host circulates a sign-up sheet and guests mark an evening when they can bring dinner by. Every little bit helps during a time when it's hard to distinguish night from day. Another way to get the help you'll need is to hire a postpartum-care doula . Not to be confused with birth doulas, postpartum-care doulas take care of you and your home so you can concentrate on your baby.