Not sure if this is quite the right spot to post this but.......

We, DH and I, have decided to implement Dr Jay Gordon's "Sleep, changing patterns" plan. After reading the article and some other information it seems to me to be a gentle way of getting him to sleep through the night - or, rather, learn to settle himself back to sleep when he wakes during the night.

Our LO has "slept through" (usually only 2 - 3 days at the most in a row) intermittently over the past month or so, so I know (???) that he's more than ready for it.

Last night I gave him a BF before bed as usual. He woke around 9.45pm so DH gave him a bottle of formula (he drank around 150ml). He woke againg at 1am so I gave him another BF, he was drowsy so I put him back into his cot and hoped that that would be it. He woke again at 2.40am and, I decided instead to rock him to sleep. He was clearly cranky with me and kept looking for my breast not because he was hungry but more for comfort and, I think, habit. There were no tears but he did carry on for over 40 minutes. I ended up putting him back into his cot during one of his lulls and then sat outside his door. He seemed to work out pretty quickly that I wasn't going to come back in and all was quiet within 2 minutes! I don't believe at all in so-called controlled crying (or leaving a baby to cry when they need comfort) however, he was clearly not upset but angry and I could feel myself getting tense which would have most likely been setting him off. He didn't wake again until 6.10am - a most respectable hour!!

Anyway, what I want to know, has anyone done this? Or, have any other ideas? My alarm goes off at 5am every morning and I work fulltime so getting up twice or more a night is starting to take a toll - I am feeling rundown, I have a disgusting cold sore and I just want to sleep through the night too!