Heidi and I have two boys with very good sleeping habits (both sleep soundly through the night). We’ve known several parents whom have not had such luck so we feel very fortunate. If it takes hours to get your little one to sleep or if he/she regularly gets up through the night, here’s what we do… it’s always worked great for us.
From the day we brought our boys home from the hospital, we got them in a nightly routine of taking a bath, feeding, clothing them warm, and putting them to bed. It’s a great one-two-three punch and it almost never fails. Try to do it about the same time every night and make sure that if they take a late nap, they don’t sleep too long; otherwise, you’ll be having a long night. By doing this, both of our boys were sleeping through the night at two months.
As I’m writing this, Noah is lying next to me wide awake and its almost midnight — knock on wood. 