Oatmeal is my hero

That's right. Oatmeal is my hero. About a month or two ago, we started feeding Gabe a bowl of oatmeal right before his bath and bedtime. Within a couple days he was sleeping until at least 6 a.m. No more getting up at 1 or 2 or 5 (or sometime twice) for a bottle. And lately, he's been sleeping until about 7 or 8. It is wonderful. Every once in a while, he still will wake up around 1 or 2, but it's maybe once a week or less - way better than every night.
We had tried just about everything we could think of. Tried letting him cry it out - but he'd just scream louder and for ever and bang his head hard on the wall and then if he finally fell back asleep on his own, he'd wake up an hour later and repeat. We tried going in and sitting with him - again, just made him more upset. Thought maybe he was done with his crib, so switched him to a twin bed - he liked the bed, but still would wake up. Tried cutting back the amoutn of milk we would give him (to gradually cut him off), but then he was just up more often. Tried other snacks before bed / later dinner. Nothing worked. Except for oatmeal. Hooray.
Hopefully he will continue to sleep all night while we are traveling over Christmas/ New Years. It seems we always get to where he's sleeping through the night and then we go out of town or something to disrupt his schedule. So hopefully, since it's been a good month or more and he's gotten really good abotu sleeping all night, it won't disrupt his routine as much...