Hey Beckoes, just thought I'd add my 2c worth. I put DS into DC when he was about 15 months old. At that stage he was still having 3-4 feeds during the day, and was feeding to sleep. He wouldn't take milk from a bottle at all, it was BM or nothing. But I found that he coped with it really well (better than me ), missing his daytime feeds didn't upset him while he was at care, he just hung out for when we got home & made up for it then. And they didn't have problems getting him to sleep, as long as he had his teddy. Granted, I didn't ask exactly how they got him to sleep, just in case they were going to say cc, but he was generally always happy to be dropped off, and he certainly built quite an affection for his regular carers, so I figured that he was doing just fine with all of it. And I don't think they actually did CC, I think he just learnt that it was what he had to do & got on with it.

And the silly thing is that as hard as it was for me to put him into care (I had to, went back to work), I had to pull him out last week cos we moved across town, and I'm not driving 45 minutes just to keep him at the same centre, and on his last day, I bawled my eyes out, because I know how much he's loved it and I now feel like I've ruined his life....not really, I'm sure he'll recover, and we're looking into new places, so it's temporary, but still, going to miss the lovely girls who've looked after him so well.