Has anyone tried NCSS for toddlers?

[Pinkjenny]

Once again I have attempted to 'sort' dd's sleep problem out and failed. It went like this:

6.30 Bath
6.55 Bottle downstairs in dimly lit living room and a quiet tv on
7.10 Upstairs reading books in her room and rest of bottle
7.30 Put in cot and...

Blood curdling screams and 'mummy no no no' pointing at the door. I gave up after twenty minutes as my nerves were bloody shattered. I didn't leave her and tried to be calm and just ssssh. She sleeps in the cot for everyone but me! She fell asleep on my bed at 9pm.

What did I do wrong? I thought it was the NO CRY sleep solution!

Sounds familiar. DD at present snoring on my lap.

Ha ha. And dd now snoring next to me. In my bed. Again. She'll never get a sibling at this rate.

Bumping after being awake watching Balamory between 11.30pm and 2.15am.

Pinkjenny,
That's hellish! My DD is 20 months and has only very very recently started to sleep. When I say sleep, I mean maybe two or three nights a week and it's only happened in the past month or so.
I did the NCSS when DD was about 6 months and found it made a wee bit of difference. But you have to do the same thing, every night at the same time! It's tedious, but what I found is that DD goes to sleep quite quickly - she just didn't stay sleeping!
Anyway, maybe stick to the routing you done last night every night for a fortnight or so and see if it gets any better? Good luck! My little one is a n absolutel handful just now with her growing independence and screams and screams and screams when she wants something. I know all about nerves being shattered!

OH, I've also stopped DD sleeping during the day or at least cut it down to no more than 30 mins. Made a big difference.

Really Ali? So the theory about them needing lots of sleep during the day to make them better sleepers at night hasn't been the case for you?

She is definitely trying it on. I just can't bear the screaming. Crying, I can deal with, but the screams and the huge sobs that get caught in her throat break my heart.

Me too! I was always a wimp and could never bring myself to go down the CC route, even when the sleep situation was bloody awful.
Anyway, PJ, I only stopped the sleep during the day over Christmas because what was happening was that DD was sleeping for an hour or two during the day but then making up for it at night. Ie, she'd wake at 2am and be up for two hours or else want to start the day at 5am.
When she was small I definitely thought she slept better at night if she slept during the day but at 20 months, she doesn't. She has never seemed to need a lot of sleep at all! She goes down now anywhere between 7pm and 8pm and sleeps about 11 hours. I can't guarantee she'll sleep all night - jesus, that's only happened about a dozen times in her life - but it means that even if she wakes, she goes back again quite quickly.
Good luck - not sleeping or spending all night getting a wee one to sleep is torture.