Operation: "Night Cap"

We're two days away from my return to work and sleep is still a major concern (or lack there of). So I turned my my trusty book "What To Expect The First Year". In the section on sleep it talks about putting your baby down for the night when they are ready and then waking them up when you turn in for the night for a light feeding or a "nightcap" to get them to sleep longer. It goes on about not jumping to wake them at their first whimper, shushing, and rubbing their backs to fall asleep, etc. So I choose this as my plan of attack. Last night was the second night and let me tell you, it is AWFUL and still not making a difference. If anything, it's gotten worse.

Sam chooses to go to sleep between 7-8pm. I put him down, and wake him up at 10 when I got to bed. He doesn't even open his eyes but I can succesfully get him to take 3 ounces thinking this should buy be at least 2 more hours of sleep.
Day 1- up at 12:30. Shushed him to sleep within 2or3 minutes. Back up at 12:35, more shushing and asleep at 12:45. This lasted all the way until 2:30 am at which I woke up and gave him a bottle. Then up at 4:00am when I brought him in bed with me, then 6:30 and 8:30.

Day 2-On top of all this fun I am having major anxiety about my return to work and having trouble falling asleep. Lastnight it was 12am and I was still tossing and turning know that he would be up soon and getting angry with myself that I am loosing precious hours of sleep. Then at 12:15 he's up. Between the hours of 12:25 and 1:30 I went in his room 5 times to get him back to sleep but he would wake up each time. By 1:30, having not gone to sleep yet, I thought I may rip my hair out and decided to give him a bottle. Fed and back to sleep. Then up at 3:30 and I asked Brant to please get up with him so I could try to get some sleep. He fed and changed him and the little fart was still awake an hour later. Brant finally got him to sleep around 5am. Back up at 6 and I brought him into bed with me again and was able to sleep until 8:30 this morning. So I got about 5 hours of sleep collectively that was sprinkled among my night of fun!

Now the trouble is deciding whether or not I even attempt this again tonight or not. It's making us all miserable! We need help from a professional I think. He slept at my mom's house from 9pm to 4:30am and I still can't figure out how she did it. Where do people get these babies that are sleeping through the night at 8 weeks and why can't mine?????????????