Once they are bigger, they won’t sleep on your chest anymore.

I woke up from a nap the other day with my 11 year old laying perpendicular across my chest dead asleep. She's a nut though.

Everything is a phase

This is probably the most important thing. There are phases when your child will refuse to sleep, scream all the time, etc. And in the moment, you start wondering if this is it--are the next 17 years going to be non-stop screaming? And it seems like they will. Then a week later, things change.

Repeat after me: this too shall pass.

Another thing I like to put out there is that you and your partner are about to experience sleep deprivation like you (likely) never have. I read a report that 25% of new parents experience hallucinations due to sleep deprivation (which was very true for me). So get sleep when you can, and try to not have terribly high expectations for yourself--some days, getting through is the best you can do, and that's okay.

The kids will try and come to your bed for snuggles because they had a bad dream.

Enjoy it, because it's a phase and give it 8 years and they will never do it again. It's funny because it seems annoying at first, but knowing it will never happen again makes it a little sad.