2 year old toddler sleep

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DS who’s 2 won’t sleep at night at bed time? If we leave him in the room on his own he just gets so upset. For the last week we’ve tried staying in the room, but we’ve wasted hours this week. What to do?

Hi, I've just been/am currently going through this. 2.5 year old DS one night decided he was never going to sleep properly again.
I'll explain what I've done and it might help. So I started with sleeping in their with him (this was ridiculous though), then returning him back to bed everytime he gets up (be prepared to return him what feels like 100s of times) then after a few weeks of that not really working I just sat outside his room, he seemed to stay in there more and eventually he would stay in bed and fall asleep with me sat outside the door.
We're at the point now of him being able to go to sleep straight away with me pottering around upstairs. I'm not sure if your DS wakes in the night too, mine does. So if it's before midnight I will go and lie on his floor and he'll drop back off within 20 minutes, if it's after midnight there's no hope of him going back to sleep in his room so I've now fully given up and let him in with me.
It's been about 7 weeks now since he started having problems, and now a few nights he will sleep through, also the screaming and crying has stopped, it's just a quick call out for mummy and that's about it.
My DH is away with work so me having DS in bed with me doesn't really matter atm, and we have 2 other kids so sleep is a priority for everyone and the endless crying was disturbing everyone.
There is a 2 year sleep regression, I had no idea about it and he's my third! But apparently it's a thing, and although the first 3 weeks I thought I was going insane through sleep deprivation, I will say after about 6 weeks the situation noticeably got better.
Good luck! Hopefully for you it's a 2 week phase that you'll forget about by summer!

Oh dear! I could have written this down to the last dot! My DD is 26 months and betime the last two months was a nightmare. She refused to be put down and screamed to be picked up. She ended sleeping in our bed most of the nights and that almost broke us. We decided at the end to make her bedroom more interesting than ours by putting glowing stars on the ceiling and using a projector. First night we put those on, I pretended to sleep next to her bed, my back towards her and ignored any calls to be picked up. Oh my, it was heartbreaking to hear her screaming "mummy get up" on repeat but at the end she settled and babbled to herself until she fell asleep. Perhaps making your DS room more interesting would work?

Thanks. It seems we just need to be patient but making his room nicer might help. He’s also quite active at bed time. He started nursery at two for three mornings a week and I wonder if this is feeding his separation anxiety