My son gets out of bed approx 50x each evening

[PaulHollywoodsSexGut]

.... and it’s getting worse.

-He’s 2 and a half.
-His bedroom is absolutely blacked out
-The temperature is a perfect 18°
-Before bed he gets stories one on one with me or DH, away from his two sisters
-He has a shower before bed as he loves a shower, we try and stagger this as if all three children are showered/bathed together it turns into a rave.

• Once he sleeps he’s out for the night
• but he needs needs needs 11 hours or so which is why when he’s having an up and down evening and won’t sleep until 9 he will be up at 5am the next day as he’s fucked.

Last night he was out of bed FIFTY EIGHT TIMES. We counted. It took 2 hours to settle him. We just don’t engage but lead him back and put him in quiet, no fuss.

Tell me if you had a kid that just would not stay the fuck in bed and how it got better for you?

I’m at my wits’ fucking end.

Also, when he was really little we'd lie next to him in his bed until he went back to sleep, then creep out.

Just a question - what do you do if you have more than one child that gets out of bed every night? Especially if you are a single parent? You physically can't sit in the room of each child until it falls asleep if you want any evening for yourself.