The 5 s's are giving me a headache

31 weeks, and we're already knee-deep in baby. Baby dreams, baby names, baby books. Last night, we lay in bed, Peaches reading BabyWise and me reading Happiest Baby on the Block, and suddenly realized we were getting very different messages about baby care, but those messages had one thing in common: the advice was annoying. "There is nothing you can do about colic," he sighed, shaking his head. "Try to give the baby to a family member." "What?" I asked. "What about the 5 s's? Shhh, swaddle, side-lying...and two other things, I forget. The baby must feel like it is in a womb and be coddled at all times, just like the people of the !Kung tribe do with their babies. You should feed them 100 times a day." "NO!" he said vehemently. "You will spoil the baby! It says so in my book! Feed every three hours! We want parent-centered parenting, not child-centered parenting!" "MY book says that the baby CAN'T be spoiled!" "Well, MY book cites the Creator," said Peaches. "My book quotes the Bible," I said. Peaches and I are rarely swayed by the Creator or by the Bible, so at this point we had to both put our books down. "Each of our books could be distilled down to one sentence," said Peaches, "...and those sentences would be contradictory."

I think it's time we find a good pediatrician and get some advice. Baby land is getting swampy.