Any tips for sleep training a 19 month old?

I would love to hear from some other Mums on their tips for sleep training a 19 month old. Our son is still waking 2-3 times a night and at the moment I have been resorting to getting up and giving him a bottle of milk (heavily diluted with water). This does get him back off to sleep but he will… usually wake again a couple of hours later for another one. I did train him to sleep using controlled crying at around 8 months and it worked, however after a holiday away staying with friends I slipped back into the bottles so that we wouldn’t be disturbing others too much. I tried again last week to use controlled crying but it was horrible. He got so upset I couldn’t hold out. Perhaps this is because he is much older now? Has anyone had similar problems? I would love to hear any advice or stories that you may have that would help.

Posted by Mel 2.3.2013

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- - mom327228 said
  - 28 Jan 2020
    9:16 pm
Very informative comments in this post
- - sars_angelchik said
  - 03 Oct 2017
    11:15 am
I sleep trained both of my kids right from the start. Obviously when they are newborns you still get up and feed them, but you put them into their cots awake and sooth them to sleep from the edge of the cot slowly graduating to leaving them to self sooth for intervals until they don’t need you to go to sleep at all.
With my oldest she was sleeping through from about 10 weeks but did start to wake in the night at around 6mths when she was getting teething pain. To break this habit I used to send in my husband with a bottle of water. Once she learned that waking wasn’t going to give her the reward of warm milk she soon settled down within a few weeks.
Don’t loose heart with the controlled crying. You may get a few bad nights, but he will grow out of it. Try sending in your partner and just using straight water, warmed a little so that it is the same temp as a bottle of milk.
- - dannsbuild said
  - 29 Sep 2015
    5:25 pm
Really very interesting comments on this!
- - Mis Jo said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    1:48 pm
I found some great advice and tips on this topic!!
- - miranda_blackmore said
  - 30 Mar 2014
    5:11 pm
Save our sleep by tizzy hall is a great book about sleep training and has been a great reference for us in our house
- - meltingmoment said
  - 02 Dec 2013
    10:12 am
Hope you managed to find the answer you were looking for.
- - mggarner said
  - 28 Nov 2013
    3:26 pm
What did you end up doing?
- - mggarner said
  - 27 Nov 2013
    3:38 pm
How did you go with sleep training?
- - barch said
  - 31 Oct 2013
    9:53 pm
I hope that at least one of the suggestions worked for you and your little one.
- - meltingmoment said
  - 27 Oct 2013
    9:55 am
How is he going? Anything worked?
- - snoopy said
  - 25 Oct 2013
    3:20 pm
It is always a difficult challenge this one, I hope you have settled into a routine now.
- - kjgarner said
  - 13 Oct 2013
    11:24 am
Hope everything is working out for you
- - lynzstevo said
  - 30 Aug 2013
    1:31 pm
Hope it’s all going well for you.
- - lynzstevo said
  - 28 Aug 2013
    6:43 pm
I’d make sure hes having a very filling dinner and a bottle before bed. Rach also has lots of great info there..
- - maureen3 said
  - 28 Aug 2013
    12:33 pm
Give him a bottle of water