Hi YaYa,
Glad you figured out the milk allergy earlier than later.
Have you tired using a "key phrase" over an over with T? Since they are at the age where they are understanding more (everything it seems
) it could be really useful. I started with Nello by saying this every night. "Ok sweetie, lay down, here's your bankie, here's your bear, here's your teet teet, sleepy time, I GO....and I COME BACK....Mummy GO...she come back....love you, nite nite.. see you tomorrow."
We play during the day with a blanket where we hide on each other, he is really into hiding on me lately and gets so excited when I go searching for him, so I started hiding on him under the blanket or his room and then when he comes and gets me I say: "Wehey, you found me... I go...but I came back!"
Now at night when I leave his room after my little piece, he settles really well. The nights when he is squirming all around and fooling around a bit, when he shouts out to me, I just go to the door and say, LAY DOWN, good boy, nite, nite, I love you, I go, I come back, Sleepy time..." and I repeat that as often as needed. Sometimes now when I go walking down the hall, I am just about to get the words LAY DOWN out and he is already nose diving onto his pillow. I did it for about a week straight to see any results. HTH.
Aisling x
