How to get a child to sleep when they open the door!!

[Hollyrose]

My little girl is almost two, and has slept perfectly since 10 weeks old, give or take nights for teething and illness. Even when we took the considering down she was really good. But now she has learnt to open her bedroom door and it takes us hours to get her to sleep as she keeps opening her door and walking out. We have tried taking her back in whilst telling her off, taking her in whilst ignoring her. I want to put a stair gate on her bedroom door but my husband doesn't agree.
Any advice from anyone and I would be very grateful!! I struggle when she screams to the point where she makes herself gag, it's my breaking point. I then have to go and cuddle her to sleep, undoing what we have just spent the last few hours doing!!

Thanks!!

I might get shot for this but with my Ds (4.8 yr old) I tried everything & in the end I put a little latch hook on the outside of his door which I put on when he goes to bed & undo as soon as he is asleep , he doesn't even try & open the door anymore & when I first started with it he gave up after a week

Until we put a stair gate on the door, we would hold the door shut until he gave up and went off to bed. Sometimes this was a loooong time. Even now after at least 6 months of being able to open the door, he does it but we ignore him and he gets bored. We can't react to him otherwise he doesn't give up.....if one of us is still upstairs when he does it we have to hide

We are in a flat at the moment so it feels difficult because we can't hide or ignore her. We are in the process of buying a house and I'm worried that if she can't settle here will it affect her sleeping in the new house, which is going to be difficult anyway.

I had a stairgate. It was safer particularly if dd woke at night but then her door was closest to the stairs. Wrt to the screaming I used the Supernanny method, which is to say it's bedtime now, goodnight and then put them to bed. Each time after that you pick them up/lead them to bed and put them back, no talking to them, and leave and repeat as often as it takes. First night was around two hours - this is not quick! Second night a little less, third night significantly less.

I know someone who has a latch hook on the door too, as their child can climb over the stairgate. Personally I don't think that's bad and would consider it if and when we have that problem, if it is a latch that opens as quickly and easily as a stairgate would, and couldn't get caught or broken in any way.

We cut their doors in half in a stable style and put a latch on each. Just a tiny hook but far enough down to be out of reach. Seemed to work, I assume as the dc could see the landing and people walking by they knew they weren't alone.