I personally don't think he's that bad a sleeper. It's just when I tell people that I may have been up 3-4 times on a particular night or his day sleeps may not have been that great I will be told "no he's a bad sleeper, his body clock's all wrong. That's not right, you need to teach him how to fall asleep on his own." What he does on a typical day is have 2-3 naps from 1/2 - 1.5 hours. He goes down at about 6pm after a bath and feed and will then wake 2-3 times a night but will go back to sleep fairly easily. What we have been doing yesterday and today (because i couldn't handle the poor little thing crying) was only letting him cry for 5 mins, going in to calm him down, letting him cry for another 5 mins, etc. We decided 5 minutes is more than enough and he's mostly been falling asleep after we go in after the first 5 minutes. Whether this is control crying or not doesn't bother me because it at least seems a bit more humane. Previously he was taking about 10-20 minutes of rocking to get to sleep so there has been some improvement in his sleeping but I often wonder at what cost emotionally to Lincoln.