It doesn't take "guts" to "sleep-train" an 8 week old

In her recent New York Times blog post “Sleep Training at 8 weeks: ‘Do You Have the Guts?” Aimee Molloy describes a routine pediatric visit that took an ugly turn. Rather than affirm her maternal instincts to respond to the healthy and normal physiological needs of her 8-week-old daughter, Molloy was told that her little one should be sleeping 12-hours straight, alone, without any human contact.