This is a programme due to be screened next week on C4 in the UK.  Not sure if I’ll be able to watch it without exploding in frustration.  Here’s an article about it.  And this is what I posted in the comments - not sure if they’ll get published though:

I can’t think of an easier, happier way of doing things than following your instincts and responding to your baby’s needs.  Leaving babies to cry is distressing and harmful to their emotional development.  Buggies are a pain in the neck and bad for the development of babies’ language.  Cots mean you have to wake up and get up frequently.  On the other hand meeting a baby’s needs before he has to cry means fewer stress hormones rushing round his little body, bathing his brain and damaging his delicate new neural connections.  Carrying baby in a sling gives you two hands free to do whatever you need (wash up/hold toddlers’ hands/whatever) and keeps your baby calm.  Sharing sleep means that, not only do you get less tired as you don’t have to wake so often, but also your presence helps your baby to regulate his breathing, temperature, heart rate and hormones ie. it’s safer. 

Oh yes, and being close to your baby is so wonderful and lovely too

The Continuum Concept mum said that it’s hard work doing it that way…surely it can’t possibly be harder work than fighting your instincts, being a slave to a routine and making up bottles?  Mothering is hard work.  Too often breastfeeding/co-sleeping/baby-wearing is blamed when actually these things make the hard work of mothering easier, not harder.