My lovely almost three year old DD is an OK sleeper, but often does not go all night - she wakes (often from dreams I think at mo) and needs a cuddle, and also some milk - she has had milk at bedtime since birth and we have never managed to get her off it, and then somehow we slipped into letting her have it at night as well (there's some in a beaker by her bed, so we give it to her when we go in for a cuddle).
I know this is a terrible habit and am now getting fed up with her waking at night and very aware that waking for the milk must have a lot to do with it. How to get her off it though without enormous tantrums and difficulties ...? Or do we just have to bite the bullet and do it? I really want her to sleep consistently all night long and I don't think she is ever going to do this with the milk (plus it's terrible for her teeth).
She's very good at going to sleep on her own, we just have stories and milk and then tuck her in and her thumb goes in and off she goes ... but we've had enough of giving this very big girl milk at night! Any ideas would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks.