New-bed effect

I don't want to jinx anything but we've been seeing a little bit more sleep (like one night this week I DID sleep four straight dreamless hours - the next night Dylan was up all night again though...) since we turned Dylan's bassinet into the crib. We are grappling with the whole self-soothing thing (trying to put him into bed drowsy so he will learn to fall asleep on his own and trying to cut down on his falling asleep on the breast or while being rocked). We do a lot of picking him up, comforting him and putting him back down only to have to pick him up again a minute later because he's screaming. It's exhausting physically and mentally but I've seen enough Nanny 911 episodes to know I don't want a 7-year-old sleeping in our bed while one of us has to sleep on the couch, so we are trying to instill good habits now. It's not easy and I understand why people have a hard time following through. I'm morally opposed to the cry-it-out method. At least for a three-month-old. Talk to me in six months and if I'm still not sleeping, I may have changed my mind.