Sorry to hear that you are having such a difficult time, it is exhausting

I am lucky that once asleep he pretty much sleeps through the night now, but it was weeks and weeks of me climbing back into his bed with him until he went back to sleep, then creeping out and getting back into my own bed, at one point I was doing this every 2 hours or so and eventually he started waking less often through the night. As I said now he wakes maybe once or twice, but does come into bed with us at about 5:00am and then stays with us until he gets up for good. I just want to be able to put him down for the night and walk out of the room rather than stay with him until he falls asleep

Hope you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel soon, I feel the pressure to get this organised befre bubs arrives, but have come to accept that it may not be so and to just go with the flow as I have done when he was born. My mantra, this too shall pass, and it always does in the end.