controlled cryin for a toddler in big bed

[suemp]

my 18 month old is in a toddler bed and can easily get out . he has resorted back to bein terrible to go to sleep than wakin up around 10 times a night needin me to settle him. he relies on his bottle to go to bed and wen wakes he is lookin for his bottle to suck
how do you do controllled cryin with out the convienence of a cot to "restrain" them

thanks

[mamalou]

hey darl, i have no advice for you as i am trying to get out 19month old outter our bed into a toddler bed!!! haha she starts off in it and i turn around and shes in with us!!!!! but good luck and let us now how you go!!!!

hey have u tried a dummy?? dd was never interested in one until now might save the bottle thing if he is just lookin 4 comfort.

Me 21
Dh 31
dd1 19months
dd2 12 weeks

[Sanzinoz]

My DD1 did that, kept getting out when she was about 2. What I did....

I just picked her up, didnt look at her or say a word, put her back in bed, and shut the door and walked out. This happened about 6 or 7 times the first night before she stayed there. It happened about 4 times the next night, then once the next. After that she obviously got the message and never got out of bed again.

Best of luck.

[Stargazer Lily]

what we did with our 2 yo is gradually move further and further away from the bed while she was settling (over multiple nights) then we started leaving the room but only went as far as just outside the door (where she couldn't see us) so that she could only make it as far as the door when she got up and we would just return her to bed straight away and keep repeating

took about a week but she's settling to sleep on her own now for day sleeps and in the evenings - ultimately we didn't need to do controlled crying as such - just teaching her to stay in bed once put there

she still wakes in the night and comes in with us so we'll have to deal with that one next

have you tried ditching the bottle or making it a pre bed only thing so that there's nothing to wake up for?