Toddler won’t stay in bed. Help!

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I’m losing the plot. It’s worse than a newborn at least they nap and give you a rest. Our DD is 2 (3 in February) and is now in a bed as she scaled the cot and the stairgate like a little ninja! We have had battle after battle getting her to stay in it. We now lie next to her till she falls asleep and she goes down pretty quickly after her usual bedtime routine (bath, story etc) but in the night she can be up 4/5 times coming into our room upset we’re not still on her floor, it’s exhausting. We’ve got a sticker chart and the groclock but I don’t know if she fully understands them yet. Naps in the day max 30mins but she doesn’t always have one. Husband has resided to sleeping on her bedroom floor after a few attempts at getting her back to bed. Help!?

Firstly is she warm enough? DD always slept better if she was warmer. A fleece blanket at this time of year between the mattress and the sheet helped her to settle.

The other thing to check, is she eating enough?

I had a DF whose DD was very similar to yours. The HV pointed out that she was very tall and probably needed another meal in the day, so something like instead of offering 3 meals and 2 snacks, offer 5 or 6 small meals like cheese on toast.

My first son had a little camp bed next to ours. When I had my second son I was determined to get him to sleep in his own room in a cot, which he did well until he was 2 and like your DD he found he could climb out, so we put a bed next to cot so at least he wasn’t landing on the floor. Unfortunately he then started coming in to our room when he woke. So for a while there was 4 of us in our bedroom but at least we all got good nights sleep as he just crept in and eventually both boys went into their rooms to sleep.

I did think she may have been cold but we had added an extra blanket. She’s never been a good eater, and we have reduced snacks down as advised by health visitor (a whole other problem we have going on too!) We do offer a cup of milk before bed which she sometimes doesn’t want it. Maybe we could offer something else

@Mindymomo She doesn’t sleep in our bed when we bring her in. She then messes about pulling the covers off and chatting 😂But I’d totally just let her sleep in our bed if it meant we got sleep! How long did it last for you?

Hiya,

Just wondering how you are doing with all this? We are going through something similar where our DD now comes into our bed around 12-3 every night, I'm 6 months pregnant and wanting to resolve this before baby is here if I can!

@BeckyH123 were still having the same problem! One of us ends up on her floor most nights :( Must be hard when you’re pregnant too. Sorry I’ve got no advice. It actually has put us off having anymore till she stops doing it but at the same time my husband did say well we’re already tired so a newborn prob would just slot into the sleepless nights! I hopefully they just grow out of it soon