Thanks everyone for your good wishes!
So far so good. Sort of.
If we measure success by the fact that Bean hasn’t had any feeds since we began, then we have 100% success rate.
IF however, we measure success on how much sleep I’ve had as a result, then…. well, we’ve still got a way to go!!
The problem that we have is the problem I was expecting to have. It’s not that little Bean is sad and resistant to giving up his ‘mim mim’.
No, that was always going to be something we’d just have to get past.
The problem is that when little Bean gets upset, he gets hot and bothered. And when his skin gets hot, he gets eczema. Terrible eczema. Eczema that sends him into a spin of scratching and clawing at his skin, all over his body. And eczema that means sleep is impossible.
So, we’re taking this kind of step-by-step. Once he starts to scratch, I’m not pushing the cause of self soothing to sleep. Instead, we’ve been getting up to watch middle of the night episodes of Maisy Mouse or Teletubbies.
Yes, I am sure Supernanny would massively disapprove, but I feel confident enough that I know my little boy. Once he’s used to the fact he doesn’t need the mim mim to get to sleep, he will also get used to the fact that middle of the night Maisy is not going to be an ongoing treat.
So yeah, I am feeling pretty good about how we’re going so far, but I really could do with some more sleep myself. And I am so sick of Maisy. It’d be so much more fun if I were weaning a teenager and we could watch Rage or old Friends episodes and eat popcorn in the middle of the night 
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Keep up the good work Di…I don’t see any big probs with watching some maisy in the meantime…have to agree tho rage sounds much more entertaining.
Don’t worry. Before you know it, he’s 15 and wanting some mim mim for a totally different reason!
Oh Di sounds like it’s sort of working! lol
Had to laugh at Heike’s comment though!
Could you get a portable dvd player so you don;t have to get out of bed? one with headphones so only Bean can hear? or story tapes?
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Sounds like good progress to me!
Also laugh at Heike’s comment! lol!
Sounds like good progress. Ashlea and I were up in the middle of the night a couple of nights last week watching Night Garden, so I can sympathise!
This sounds so familiar…though we have spent countless middle-of-the-night-hours watching Thomas the train. Our little boy has suffered from severe allergies and Eczema since he was a baby. We have never been able to figure out the reason, after tons of meds, creams, children’s hospitals, docs, elimination diets etc. Nothing ever really helped him. It is so so hard on them and on us, and the worst is the middle of the night scratching. I have to share though that we started our little boy on Vidazorb kids chewable probiotics last fall and he is a changed boy. He hardly has any Eczema and can eat all kinds of food now! It has been an answer to prayer for our whole family, and it is such a blessing to see him cleared, happy and healthy! I am happy to no longer be treating symptoms, but to know that we are treating the cause. I highly recommend you look into this as it has changed our life. Caroline *smilinggreenmom *find me on twitter!!!