P is 2.5. We recently moved (into literally the same exact apartment set up just with newer appliances and carpet). She is now in a stand alone toddler bed. The first week or so was great. She would probably come out of her room two or three times and then eventually she would say OK and go to sleep. She stayed in her bed all night.
Lately, it is literally taking hours for her to go to sleep. She gets out of bed as soon as I leave the room, begs and cries for me to "Just stay!" "Don't leave!" "I need you!", and she is waking up often in the night and coming into our room. Then is up for the day at 5. I feel like I am in newborn land again and I am so overwhelmed.
There were a few nights where I could eventually get her to go to sleep on her floor, but even that is no longer working. Her routine has stayed pretty much the same. Snuggles in bed with me, stories (the same 4 everynight) and songs.
Please tell me this is a phase. Or if it isn't, how did you get through it. We went and bought special stickers for a chart but she is not taking the bait.
I feel your pain as well. We are the terrible mean parents who put a doorknob cover on the inside knob of her door. But when we are dealing with sleep regressions we usually sit in her doorway until she falls asleep. By now we can sit in her doorway and she'll check to make sure we're still there, and we can sternly tell her to lay back down and go to sleep. But to do it gradually you can sit next to her, then slowly move away until you're in the doorway... once things are going well like that for a few nights we move further and further away until we are sitting outside her slightly open doorway... then eventually we close the door while saying goodnight through it.
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