Toddler bed chaos

[AlltheGs123]

My DD has moved into a toddler bed and it's horrendous. She resists bed time and then wakes in the early hours and then regularly through the night. She wants to come into our bed and will throw huge tantrums, we have been trying to rapid return but most nights it'll take a couple of stints on her floor lying next to her bed to settle her - needless to say we are all exhausted and we all dread bedtime! Trying to dissuade her from taking her daytime nap but feel quite cruel. She's 2 and a half btw. Any experiences with Glo-clocks / gro-clocks (can't remember exact name) - are they any use???

We did gradual withdrawal as FATE describes but got stuck with DH on the far side of the room. Then I'm not sure what happened but it all went to shit and now we are back in bed with her, physically making her lie down.

So I guess this is a warning, don't get half way and get complacent, it can all go wrong again very easily! We need to start again.

Worth trying a bed rail. Helped DS who was sliding out of bed and waking that way on first moving from a cot.

My 2 year old is in a toddler bed. He has a leaf canopy over the top that we got from Ikea, it helps him feel more secure and cocooned. We are also doing the gradual withdrawal method.

Thanks Fate. At the moment we are getting dragged into rigmarole of 'sing a song mummy/daddy' 'I want water' etc. And she takes bloody ages to go to sleep.

So we need to start with being totally boring. In the room/visible but no interaction, and then go from there.

We are back to gradual withdrawal. Not reinstating the cot bars as she doesn't want to and I think it's a resurgence of separation anxiety also. We are on night three and concentrating on getting her comfy going to sleep. She is going to sleep fine but still waking multiple times... We've been talking lots about how it will work, v firm about no talking after lights out, etc and it is helping though she did try to get in with me again last night, I had to do the spiel again at 3am... I'm still passing out on her floor though during the night and not sure how long till the wake ups wind down or if we will end up going backwards again!