Ds tried to from about 2 weeks
I had to wake him to feed him 
Can't remember when I "dropped" the 10pm wake-up feed, but I do remember that we had to not discuss his sleeping patterns with friends of ours who were struggling with a non-sleeping child.
In ds' first 2 years, we had one sleepless and one disturbed night's "sleep". I think our friends went over 5 years before they had a full night's sleep (their 2nd child was just as "bad").
We did have a rule about not going in to ds' room (we moved him out of our room when he was 6 months old) until he had been crying for more than 5 minutes - but (with the exception of the two occasions mentioned above) he never did.
Let's just gloss over the time he cried for 5 minutes shortly after being put down, I commented on it being unusual but he stopped just before I went in, so when I went in a couple of hours later I found him lying in a pool of vomit 
I never put him down for a nap in his room (used a travel cot or his baby gym for day time naps) so he knew his cot was for sleep. We also made a point of, once he was asleep, not being quiet around him: his room was used for storage and we would quite happily go in there for things and not tiptoe around - even putting the light on if we needed to.
We did used to say that if we had been able to have another one, we'd have to have signs up around the house stating, " Remember , they're all different" as we realised we were lucky 
He is now 12 and is still a good sleeper even if he is beginning to develop a bit of teenage stroppiness 