Just wanted to say how annoyed I am with the info they put in the Bounty "Weaning & health" booklet. I am annoyed because this thing is so popular and given to everyone and all it provides is bad advice (don't even want to start on their advice on weaning)
First at all the info about sleeping and sleep problems is so ridiculous! It gives you the wrong impression that sleep training and CIO is the only answer to baby waking during nights 
. There is a new paper published by Australian Association for Infant Mental Health www.aaimhi.org/documents/position20papers/controlled_crying.pdf which I find very refreshing and quite opposite to the CIO trend in the UK (which is supported by most of the health visitors here 
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It says that:
"the widely practiced technique of controlled crying is not consistent with what infants need for their optimal emotional and psychological health, and may have unintended negative consequences(...)
Crying is a signal of distress or discomfort from an infant or young child. Although controlled crying can stop children from crying, it may teach children not to seek or expect support when distressed (…)
Infants from about six months of age suffer from differing degrees of anxiety when separated from their parents. This anxiety continues until they can learn that their parents will return when they leave, and that they are safe. This learning may take up to three years (...)
Infants are more likely to develop secure attachments when their distress is responded to promptly, consistently and appropriately. Secure attachments in infancy are the foundation for good adult mental health (...)
The demands of Western lifestyles and some” expert” advice has led to an expectation that all infants and young children should sleep through the night from the early months or even weeks. In fact infants have the potential to arouse more often in the night than older children or adults because their sleep cycles are much shorter. These short sleep cycles allow infants to experience more rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is considered to be important for their brain development. Many parents become distressed and exhausted when their infants and young children cry at night, in part because of the physical strain of getting up and going to their babies to resettle them, and sometimes in part because of the unrealistic expectation that babies “should” sleep through the night (...) and It is normal and healthy for infants and young children not to sleep through the night and to need attention from parents. This should not be labelled a disorder except where it is clearly outside the usual patterns
I think I will contact bounty and tell them what I think of them 