Our son is generally a good sleeper during the night, for the last 2 weeks he has only woken up once around 4 or 5am for a feed, after going down at around 8.30/9pm. From around 3 months,as we moved him to his bedroom we introduced a bedtime routine which went: Bottle, bath, story feed (i breastfeed to top him up) and then bed. However he started associating me feeding him with sleep and from around 4 months he began relying on me to feed him to sleep both during the day and night. We tried changing the routine to end with a story, but he got upset and so we continued with the old routine, but being mindful not to let him fall asleep at the breast. He continued however to feed from me to become drowsy enough to fall asleep. We decided on controlled crying because we know that us being around him would make him worse. We are now into our very emotional 3rd night of controlled crying and although it's working- he's gone from 40mins of crying to 26mins to 12mins- as we start his bedtime routine, he starts to get very upset, crying and getting intosuch a state it's very hard to get him out of it. When i put him in his cot he starts to panic. I'm sure this is because of the controlled crying. Should i stop the controlled crying? Or is this to be expected and it's ok to carry on? Help!