2 year old sleep struggles
Been struggling with my 2 year olds sleep for the last few months, and this past 2-3 weeks have been really bad. We moved him to a “big boy bed” because he was climbing out of his crib, and lately he’s just been waking in the middle of the night calling for me, wanting me to lay in the bed with him. I cave and do it a lot of the time but then I’m like okay well now I’m creating a habit. He doesn’t like us to close the door at bedtime, so I had been keeping it cracked but now I’m realizing that’s part of the problem, because then he wakes up and sees it’s closed and freaks out.
Should I stay in the room with him while he falls asleep, with the door closed, but not in the bed, just sitting on the floor across from him? I’m not against CIO as it’s worked for us in the past but last night he cried for an hour banging on the door and I gave up.
I’m just panicked because I’m due with #2 at the end of June. Not only am I worried about him sleeping while we’re at the hospital and he’s potentially at a different house, I’m also worried about balancing this with newborn wakeups. Help!