We got to 8 months before we tried my own brand of CC. For us it was better than 5-10 a night like you had. Plus I also realised that even sice he was a real small newborn Flynn didn't like being cuddled or patted to sleep - he would get really annoyed and distracted and almost pi$$ed off by it. So much so that when I have tried in desperation to co-sleep with he he just does these wierd crocodlie death rolls and whines till I put him in his own bed.

At 8 months he cried for about an hour at a time (with 2 min, 3 min, 4 min and 5 min breaks with me going in to settle him. He took about 3 nights of unsettled sleep to settle into waking once at night for a bottle or BF.