Anybody who night weaned/sleep trained? Advice please!!

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I've just started with a sleep consultant. She has given me a brilliantly detailed plan for schedules and a plan for gradual retreat. However she has advised me night weaning first.

Usually DS goes to sleep in his cot but comes into our bed fairly soon.
So tonight every time he wakes I am rocking him back to sleep, waiting about 10 minutes, and then putting him back.
But what is this teaching him? I dont understand. Everytime he wakes he will cry surely? I cant see how either of us will get any decent sleep. Is the idea that if he doesnt get milk he will stop waking?! Obviously I will ask her tomorrow but right now im feeling utterly daunted. We cant go on with his sleep so bad but I cant see how this will sort things.
Please help!

Really glad you're finding it's going well. I've seen a few of your posts over the last few months and you've had such a tough time of it. I hope the other thread isn't upsetting you too much (it's bothering me quite a lot, if I'm honest)

Thank you lovely. It makes me so sad that it's been this tough. It makes me even sadder when other posters write in a way that makes you feel simultaneously guilty for trying to change the situation and also guilty because I have apparently caused my own problems.

Ignore them. Dont let them.bother you. You know what's right for you. And of it is of any note you have made me feel so much better and for that I'm hugely grateful.

The world needs much much more kindness.