My DS is 4 months and is now moving towards self settling. I'm in the process of reading Sheyne Rowley's Dream Baby (all 800 pages of it ....phew!) and although it is geared towards 6 month to 2 year olds I have implemented a few of the techniques and things have improved a lot already. Half the book is dedicated to communication and play as she believes that this is important for good sleep, and the other half is about sleep and how to repair common problems. At her suggestion I reintroduced swaddling together with a firm tuck-in and set up a consistent routine and saw immediate results. Although I still do a bit of rocking to get DS drowsy (the amount of rocking has now decreased significantly) I can now put him to bed and even though he usually opens his eyes when laid down he can now put himself to sleep. Not only that he has gone from waking up 3 or 4 times during the night to once or twice.