I feel like I've won the lottery or something.
My daughter was totally different. She ALWAYS fell asleep at the breast, almost from day 1 it was the only way she would go to sleep. Sometimes she'd drop off in the sling when she was very little but generally I had to breastfeed her to get her to go to sleep. In the newborn stage this was fine as she only woke when hungry and naturally progressed to sleeping long stretches at night. By 3 months old I was delighted and not sleep deprived at all, she was doing a good 8 hours most nights. But then after the 4 month sleep 'regression', which as I understand it is actually a permanent change, everything went to shit because she needed the breast to go to sleep. Long story short, we didn't get her sleeping through the night again until well after her first birthday and she's still not the best (now 2).
Now I have a newborn son who seems to be naturally doing things the way all the sleep advice websites say you SHOULD do them but I never could manage with my first. I'm very go-with-the-flow with my babies (although this probably led to me making a lot of 'mistakes' with my daughter) and would never ever try to 'sleep train' such a little one but he really does wake, eat, play and then drift off to sleep completely by himself sometimes! Not always, sometimes he likes to be cuddled and rocked to sleep, but I could never have imagined my daughter lying by herself and simply going to sleep at this age.
Anybody else had a newborn like this and did you have an easy time once the 4-month changes hit? I hardly dare to hope. Also is there anything I should be doing to encourage this wonderful habit he has to continue through that point? He's up to sleeping a 5-6 hour stretch at night by this point but from bitter experience I know now that newborn habits don't necessarily continue!