https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:33:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2628756 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:02:54 +0000 NorCalWayfarer 2628756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: @BabyBoecksMom: Thanks for the advice! I'll have to try this technique! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2628755 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:02:21 +0000 NorCalWayfarer 2628755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: I wish he'd stay in his crib/room! He just pops right out :-/ And pretty sure he'd destroy a baby gate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2628754 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:01:05 +0000 NorCalWayfarer 2628754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @MrsSRS: Thanks for the commiseration :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2628753 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:00:16 +0000 NorCalWayfarer 2628753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: He naps from 1-3pm at preschool. Sometimes MIL, who watches him 2x a week lets him nap a little later - like 2-4. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2628718 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:47:48 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 2628718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NorCalWayfarer: Sounds like my youngest when we transitioned her. I ended up having to do a version of the Sleep Lady Shuffle to get her to stay in her room. </p> <p>As pathetic as it sounds, here's what we did:<br /> For a few nights, I slept in her bed to get her used to falling asleep in the new bed. Then I slept in the recliner in her room (big and comfy) for a few nights. </p> <p>Then we put up a baby gate in her doorway, left the door open, and I slept in the hallway on the other side of the gate (I literally pulled the cushions off the couch and put them down on the tile outside her room... haha!). At first, I was in sight, then I would move 1-2 ft further from her sight each night. If she got up or cried for me, I would just tell her that "I'm right here - you need to go back to bed". She would cry sometimes, but I stayed consistent and never picked her up or went in there. She figured it out and would just go back to bed.<br /> Finally, I was able to move to the couch in the living room, where she could still see me if she stood at her door. I left a dim light on so she could see I was there, but I still would just tell her to go back to bed. </p> <p>Like I said, it was not the best thing, but it worked for us and she learned to stay in her bed. Two weeks of struggle that was well worth it. We still keep the baby gate up because we don't want her wandering around if she gets up in the middle of the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627558 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:38:08 +0000 erinbaderin 2627558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, we just sleep trained our 2.5 year old (well....we're still kind of in the middle of it). We worked with a sleep trainer and she suggested we put up a gate, first of all. Make sure his room is very dark. Spend some time playing in his room, especially in his bed, during the day. Then we did the sleep lady shuffle - we spent three nights sitting beside his bed, three nights sitting by his door inside, three nights sitting just outside his door, three nights sitting outside his door out of sight, and now we're sitting on the stairs out of sight. If he got out of bed during this time we left his room until he got back in. This worked for us because what he wanted was us to st next to him holding his hand. If he woke up in the night we went back to where ever we were until he fell back asleep, same rules. We didn't engage with him, we just repeated "I love you, it's time to go to sleep." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627552 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:28:09 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2627552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sleep was horrible right at 2 for a bit. Ds was a good sleeper but all of a sudden it went bad. </p> <p>What eventually worked: (he couldn't climb out of his crib and still hasn't so all of this was done with him being trapped in a crib)</p> <p>We would tell him we were right outside the door. Then DH would stay outside the door and talk to him a bit and he would fall asleep. In the middle of the night if he woke we went to his door quick and said its ok we are right here! And he calmed back down. </p> <p>This was huge for us because although he was a good sleeper, if he woke in the night we would be in his room forever and the second we put him down or left he would flip out. Now he doesn't cry at nap or bed or when we leave if he happens to get up at night. I swear the standing outside the door thing worked wonders. </p> <p>Oh and a sticker chart for no crying before bed. I didn't think he would get it but he did and it worked really well for him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627543 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:10:16 +0000 MrsSRS 2627543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had this too. And I was pregnant. It was hell. And it passed on its own. No advice, just sympathy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627537 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:55:25 +0000 Foodnerd81 2627537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do not have any advice but I do want to say my LO went through an awful sleep phase right at 2. Just screaming at bedtime, not sleeping... We tried a big girl bed at the time, thinking it couldn't get worse, but we were wrong. She hasn't climbed out then so we switched back to the crib. Eventually she went back to her normal, below average but not completely awful sleep, until she really did learn to climb out around two and a half and we switched to big girl bed for good, and it went much smoother. </p> <p>It seems like lots of kids just go through a really awful period of sleep right at 2. Good luck. It's awful when you are also pregnant! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627535 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:53:50 +0000 Tanjowen 2627535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also, how late is he napping? Any chance a late nap is screwing with bedtime? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627533 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:53:13 +0000 Tanjowen 2627533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NorCalWayfarer: My sister went through this and would put my nephew down in his room for the night, but if he woke up he could come into their room onto a floor bed beside their bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toddler-sleep-help-desperately-needed#post-2627526 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:36:36 +0000 NorCalWayfarer 2627526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2 year old was a great sleeper until he learned to climb out of his crib! We did the toddler bed for a few weeks and it was not successful so we switched to a floor bed, in his new "big boy room" since Baby Brother is due in November. It too has not been going well. He seems to have a hard time calming down at night, and often if he wakes he won't go back to sleep (he was up at 3:30am for the day today). Co-sleeping was a disaster -- he just wanted to jump on us and do somersaults. He loves to procrastinate -- water, snack, potty, etc. We've resorted to driving him around but even that doesn't always work. HELP PLEASE! I'm 31 weeks pregnant (which I'm sure is not helping) and about at the end of my rope -- DH and I need sleep. Also, randomly, MIL can put him to be NO problem! I'm considering loaning him out to her overnights :silly: Any books, websites, advice, other resources? I feel like the newborn sleep issues were so much easier to resolve than the toddler ones..... :bummed: </p>