A high five please for 1st night of controlled crying

[OnEdge]

18 month is now asleep ! An hour of misery, but it worked. Refused to give him a bottle of milk, only water and he wanged it across the room and looked at me like I was completely insane. I am determined to keep going on this one, because the whole family is starting to suffer. He is not eating hardly, and living on milk. Also it gives him wind and he wakes in the night screaming with tummy ache. But not anymore !!!

So I'm going to have a nice retro 80's glass of Tia Maria and sit here feeling smug. (until he wakes up again )

High Five OnEdge

Well? Dud he wake again or not? Hopefully not........

Good for you - keep going as, you know it, an 18 month old DOES NOT NEED MILK IN THE NIGHT. He will soon eat more in the day to compensate I'm sure

Did he not dud he obviously! Sorry - one-handed typing as I feed!

Sorry, but I don't think you can force it WRT them wanting to drink milk a lot and eat very little.

Both my boys did this till they were about four - it's not bad for them.

Sorry. An hour of misery doesn't sound worth it.
But that's just me, and obviously it's totally got to be based on your own judgment...good luck whatever you decide to do.

I say about four...little one is not quite four...still prefers milk to all else!

Well done Onedge. I'm with GuardianMummy.... high five!!!

High five! I did it a few weeks ago. Now he goes down without me almost straight away, with no crying at all. (18 months too).
And he has started 'asking' to go to bed when we've had the last story (always the same one)
And he sleeps better in the night too.
Keep at it, it's soooo worth it!

High Five!! Sitck with it i did this last week with my 12mth dd. 1st night took 25 mins, 2nd night 20 and a week on and it now takes 6 mins for her to go to sleep with just a little whinging beforehand. We had co-slept for a year so i feel free!!!

Well done, we did this with DS1 at 6 months, he is now 5 years old and has loved his bed ever since. It took a couple of nights of him crying, and me catching DH sneaking in to pick him up and give him a cuddle!! I am counting the days until DS2 is old enough to try it!!

I don't see anything wrong with a child wanting a drink in the night and preferring that drink to be milk. Of course I speak in general terms. If the milk itself is upsetting him then I can see the argument for tackling that but don't necessarily see a link between that and cc.

I had a glass of milk at 3am.

It was lovely.