Thanks Ali for brilliant list of steps. Glad to see lots of other people also going through the same process. Bubs cot is in his own room but I have been rocking him in my bed. Guess I need to put a couch for something in his room and start putting him to sleep in there. With the step from rocking to almost asleep, to putting him in the cot and patting - did you reduce the amount of rocking bit by bit - say 1 minute each day. How did you know it was time to try putting him in cot and patting? I tried that yesterday and it was a complete disaster...