I'm in a quandary. My three month old has slept pretty much through the night (from about 9:30 until 4:30) since he was about two weeks old, for which I feel extremely lucky, especially as he is exclusively breast-fed. We have a strict bedtime routine in place of bath-feed-bed starting around 8pm every night. My problem is that he will not fall and then stay asleep unless he falls asleep on the breast, then is held for about an hour until he is deeply asleep, when he is transferred extremely carefully into his cot. On the rare occasion he wakes up in the night for a feed I can usually get him back in his cot after a 20 minute feed, without the holding part, mercifully. He does, however, need the feeding and holding to get him down for naps during the day as well which he HAS to have or he's demon-baby. I've tried putting him in his cot when he's drowsy but not asleep after a feed for naps or bedtime - this does not work for him. Eyelids fly open, he starts to look panicked and whimpering escalates into screaming. I tried pat-shh today for his morning nap which just ended up being a hands-on controlled cry. After screaming for an hour and a half to the point of gagging, he finally fell asleep exhausted, but only stayed asleep for half an hour, when he'd normally have a good two to three hours. I think he was starving from the effort of screaming. I really don't want him to get into the habit of relying on feeding then prolonged holding for all naps and bedtime as it will be hard to break later, especially as he'll probably be starting nursery around 9 months. But then I don't want to introduce a sleep training method that he's too young for and which may upset the good sleep habits he does have in place. Help? Please?