Please help. DS is 2 and just before Xmas got out of his cot, since then we've had problems settling him to sleep. We moved him to his big boy bed which is actually a toddler bed and this was ok, still the same probs with getting out all the time but at least he wouldn't fall and hurt himself, we also put a stairgate on his door and this was fine until last week when he decided to start throwing all his things out of the bedroom, then proceeded to destruct his bed. All the time he is quite happy and it's only when he gets really tired that he will go to sleep.
Anyway, decided on Saturday to move his bed so it was less easy for him to strip it and I also took everything out of his room so no toys, books, socks, nappies, etc to throw out, well that's when the tears and horrendous tantrums have started and last night he climbed the stairgate on his door! I put him back to bed and then he managed to push the stairgate over (he's very strong!) with that he was half way down the stairs when he fell Nice big bump in the middle of the forehead has appeared. After this (9.30pm) he went to sleep but only with me in the room.
Today I had to take him out in the car just to get him to have a little nap.
I don't want to get into this habit with him as baby number 2 is due in June. What can I do, I am really struggling to cope at the moment.
Please help.
P.S. DS was previously a very good sleeper and we followed a good routine.