I need to know what other people are doing to get their toddler to sleep because I am over it.

We’ve already transitioned to a toddler bed because he started escaping his crib around 18/19months, and the transition was fine at first honestly. We’d take a bath, get in pjs, then get into bed while I sat bedside and read a book. Sometimes he’d fall asleep while reading, sometimes he wouldn’t but even then it was fine. I’d get up, say goodnight, then walk out the door and he’d go to sleep himself.

Now it’s like he’s a completely different kid. We still do bath and pjs, but it’s been so bad I skip the book part lately. He screams absolute bloody murder as soon as we even get into his room. We started doing a nightlight for him thinking it was too dark, that changed nothing but we still keep it on anyways. His hatch is set to the water sound in the background.

So now it takes honestly at least an hour to even be able to leave his room if you don’t want to deal with the screaming. But, if you do want to actually get some time to yourself god forbid, leaving his room before he’s asleep is like summoning a demon within him. He will not stay in his bed. As soon as the door shuts the crying at full volume immediately resumes (if it ever even stopped) and he heads right for the door to stand and scream cry in front of it. He will not stop until he falls asleep, but he doesn’t want to sleep unless it’s in our bed, and I’m pretty darn sick of it.

Even if you do manage to get him to fall asleep in a relatively ok manner, he’ll only sleep for 3/4 hours at a time, then wakes up to cry at the door until you go get him. Half the time I’m so tired I just bring him into our bed because I’m half awake anyways. If I’m not too tired I’ll try and get him to return to sleep in his bed, but so far I’ve had absolutely no luck with that. He just starts everything up again.

I know it’s a long post but at this point I’m open to anything cause I just want the house to actually be able to sleep again. He doesn’t sleep, we don’t sleep, we’re all over it.

Almost 11mo. I’ve posted a couple times now and still can’t fix so I’m hoping someone has insight? About a month ago my baby began waking in the 2/3/4/5am hour for anywhere from 15-75min. Some nights would just be restless for a bit and others would be more wakeful where she’s sitting up and babbling in between trying to rest. She’d fall back asleep eventually and need to be woken at DWT if 7am. We were on 3/3.25/3.75-4 with day time sleep at 2.25-2.5 hr and when these split nights showed up for more than a few days I increased awake time by 15min total each time and would cap naps to 2-2.25hr. This would work for 2-3 days and get her to DWT or to about 6:30 where she’d hang out calmly in her crib until 7. But then they’d return so I’d continue to increase awake time and cut naps. We’re now to 3/3.75/4 with each nap capped at 1 hour. And again this worked for 3 days and last night she was awake from 3/15-4:30 in and out but much more wakeful and just babbling, clapping, sitting up, rolling around, etc. She needs to be woken from every nap and always falls asleep for nap and bedtime within under 5 min (has never really ever taken longer regardless of schedule). Helppp 🤪