late reply, but thanks for your help, it's nice to know that others have babies which have done the same and that really, babies have their own individual needs. last week i decided to move my baby's bassinet into the walk n robe in our bedroom cos it's much darker in their (are blinds are useless!) and consistently put his dummy in and put my hands on his shoulders to make him feel extra secure and rock him...it really worked for the first few days, on some occasions it only took a couple of mins to resettle him...it's probably not something i want to keep doing, i'm hoping that he will need the rocking less once he knows that this is sleep time and can self settle! so i have been able to extend his sleep which has meant i have been able to extend his feeds to every 3 hours during the day