This is just a vent really, I have posted in here as I don't want any "just let him cry it out" comments.

My little man has just turned one and is still not sleeping through the night. There was 3 nights that he didn't wake for a feed in the night, just a couple of dummy replacements, but it didn't last. Jack goes to bed around 7:30 and is waking two or three times a night, needing boob to go back to sleep. I have tried not giving it to him and just keep going back and forward to his room and patting him on the bum until he goes to sleep, this does take a while longer, so I usually just give in and give him boob. He is also waking for the day between 4 and 5am...which is just waaaayyyy to early!! I would be quite happy to co-sleep but DS just doesn't want to, he doesn't seem to like it, he gets really restless and whingy, I think he likes his own space in his cot, he has never really liked co-sleeping even as a newborn baby.
I have a DH, but he is not at all supportive of my gentle parenting methods, he thinks I am spoiling DS and keeps telling me to "just let him cry". When I say I don't want to let him cry he tells me I am just making it worse for myself and he rolls over and goes to sleep. He will get up in the early morning with him though, which I appreciate.
The Inlaws were staying here for the w/end for jack's b/day and they were telling me the whole time how spoilt DS was, just because I pick him up when he is upset and I spend lots of time kissing and cuddling him....now I know why DH is such a hard arse...MIL has pretty much no maternal instincts at all and doesn't show much affection..even though she's had three kids.
DS does usually have two really good day sleeps, which I am thankful for, but I am starting to feel like he is never going to sleep through the night. I'm not even asking for 12 hours, I'd be deliriously happy with 8.

Sorry if this is all muddled..I just needed to get it off my chest. Thanks for reading.