The Sh!t No One Tells You: A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year

If new parents were honest about what it’s like, no one would have kids. Or at least, that’s the thrust of this book. Dais has her own experiences, and a host of other moms (the only one I remember is Chipper Jen), and they take you through an odyssey of sleep deprivation and bodily fluids. It is a trip.

High points for candor on some points, like a useful system of ziplock bags for dirty clothes on the go, and Dais’ sleep deprived partner coming in to say “I hate you” in the middle of a night of sleep training. Big minuses for treating vaccines as some kind of debatable issue. I guess a lot of parents are anxious, and it’s good to be candid about these anxieties, but Dais’s implicit endorsement of antivax is enough to knock this book down a star.