Almost 3 year old waking at night for chocolate milk and will scream and cry refusing to go back to sleep and wake the whole house until he gets it even if that’s hours and hours and idk what to do

Might be dumb but have you offered water instead? You kinda gotta be firm and tell them it’s water or nothing, if you keep giving in to the screaming and crying they learn that gets them what they want and it’ll only get harder to get them out of that cycle as they get older as they get more sneaky with the tactics to get what they want. I’m sorry you’re going through this though especially with being pregnant as well :/

I would look into healthy options…. maybe unsweetened almond milk, 100% cocoa powder, mixed with monk fruit? Or kids protein shakes. Or you could make it start tasting bitter🤭 so he no longer ask for it.

Water or nothing, why is he screaming for chocolate milk? That's not acceptable, he's 3. He gets told that that isn't happening and actions have consequences, he will lose TV / toy etc if he does it again

mine did this too, it passed. for about a week he woke up wanting ice cream or a popsicle. i told him we don’t have any (you could say the chocolate milk is sleeping or something) and just comforted him through it. he doesn’t do it anymore.

You could give him chocolate milk (milk with a little cocoa powder) before he goes to bed. To his dinner. After that brush his teeth and at night only offer him water

Water and grapes or strawberries is the only mid night snack I offer and I just keep asking in different ways until he says yes lol he still taking what I offer

I agree with the milk before bed. Explain to him every night this is his milk and if he gets thirsty during the night he can have water and water only. Then stick to it.

It'll be hard but better to battle through now then have this continue while freshly post partum with a newborn.

Good luck.

Pleaseeeeee don’t do this. My parents did this to me. I would scream for chocolate milk during the night. And because I was using it to sleep they didn’t brush my teeth after drinking it. It gave me bottle rot. All of my front teeth were black for my kindergarten pictures and stayed that way until they fell out and my adult teeth came in. Water only.

Absolutely not. Firm boundaries. Maybe he screams cause he knows eventually you'll give in?

Just ignore it, secure his bedroom and eventually he’ll fall asleep.