Well first off, Congratulations on the blessing coming into your life!
This will be such a special time for you!! Enjoy every moment!
As for your Doberman, I will say at least having him be two years old and somewhat trained should be a great help. I'd spend this time doing even more training. Possibly even teaching him to stay out of the baby's room. Not having pass the door. Just to give you some me and baby time.
I certainly understand the bull in the china shop Theory and not knowing where their paws go.
sometimes Annie will do that too. But she's quite young and it's almost like the zoomies. Sometimes I will take her outside to run them off. Having an infant on the floor or in the swing or anything like that could be really dangerous during times like that.
I guess if it were me I would try imagining the scenario before your delivery date. Try to imagine where you might be interacting with your baby the most and how it would involve/not involve your dog. I don't know if I'm explaining that correctly LOL But its kind of like having the baby's room off limits. You want to be able to change or feed your baby without your dog in your face. So I would be aware of that now and try and do some training as if the baby was here already.
Does your dog understand 'place?' That might be a good tool for when you are busy with the baby and he is too close to you being nosy or a nuisance. You can say 'place', meaning you have to sit there in your place but you can watch us and observe, just not in my face.
My main objective would be to teach him to give you and your baby space. It's going to be difficult to be holding an infant if he is in your face all the time. At his age he may be better at this already. I know Annie is still a puppy and learning. But she can be under foot a lot wanting to be near me. God forbid your dog trips you holding your baby!
As for the actual introduction I hope there's other people who have done that with a infant and can chime in. I have not. When we got our first Doberman my children were teenagers.
I
did have twin grandchildren as infants when we got Buddy. Almost at the same time. But he was easy peasy! LOL He was very gentle and never had a problem with the kids! Hopefully your boy will be the same.
The dog, I mean the dog.
