Experiences of the milk ladder please

[friendlyfired23]

Just commencing the milk ladder with my 14MO son.
He's been up a lot during the night, seemingly in discomfort. Not sure if this is related or if it's teething (as per).
What were your experiences please? Would be so helpful to hear.

Hey, I'd never even heard of the milk ladder. Had to google it! Didn't want to read and run. We saw someone because my child had a suspected cows milk allergy and they said to just avoid it as much as possible but not entirely because they need the protein and then were left to our own devices. We essentially got to what I see now is step/week 4 and stopped there. My kid is 5 now and and still doesn't have cows milk, but has yogurt, ice cream, rice pud, custard etc and occasionally cheese. Milk ladder looks much more strategic!!

We have done it twice with my 3 yo. The first time at 17m she failed with a crumb then size of a grain of rice and this resulted in her screaming for two days and only being calmed with antihistamines
We tried it a second time at 3y3m and we had nondescript symptoms. She wasn't quite right but we were encouraged to keep going we went exceptionally slowly doing a piece the size of a grain of rice once a week then twice a week then every other day. The first time we did every other day she got diarrhoea so we stopped then.
If you are unsure i would slow the increase down. We are following the North west milk ladder which is the slowest I have seen and making it slower still. You can always pick up the pace when you get confidence