Nobody Told Me - The advice worth ignoring, the mistakes worth skipping, and the small number of things that actually matter.

Within your first fortnight, someone will tell you to wake the baby for feeds. Someone else will tell you never to wake a sleeping baby. Both will be completely certain, and at least one will ask about it again next week.

That's what actually grinds new parents down first, not the nappies or the night wakings, but the endless requirement to adjudicate between confident strangers while running on four hours of sleep. This is the guide that hands you the filter: which advice has genuinely reversed since your parents did this, which safety risks get overlooked in almost every home, where your energy is disappearing for no return, and the short list of things that actually make a difference.

Inside, you'll find:

• The advice filter: five questions, ten seconds, sorts almost anything anyone tells you
• Advice that's actually reversed: including the allergen guidance that flipped completely, which most relatives still have backwards
• The safety chapter: button batteries, why winter coats make car seats fail, and why halving a grape isn't enough
• Where your energy is going: the things that consume enormous effort and change nothing
• The relationship nobody warns you about: the mental load, and why satisfaction commonly dips
• Skip this, buy that: what's genuinely worth the money and what the industry invented
• Scripts for everyone else's opinions: including the ones for relatives who won't let it go
• "The Fridge Page": the whole guide on one printable sheet

Every item in here is something you'd otherwise learn by getting it wrong first. That's the real cost of waiting, not the sixteen dollars, but the arguments you'll have, the money you'll spend on things you'll never use, and the weeks you'll lose worrying about things that were never going to matter. This is the guide people say they wish they'd read before they were overwhelmed with whats right and what's wrong.